Dillenicu] I. DILLENIACEiE. 3 



nent ; when young, softly hairy or rufous silky on both sides ; when old, 

 glabrous above and pubescent beneath. Flowers before the leaves, soli- 

 tary, at the end of short lateral branchlets, with ovate bracts at base of 

 peduncle, 2-3 in. across. Sepals" oblong, obtuse, concave, fleshy, with 

 thin ciliated margins, at last reflexed, with long sUky hairs on the back. 

 Petals yellow, obovate from a narrow base. Stamens numerous, the inner 

 longer spreading or recurved. Ovaries 6-12. Fruit on thick pilose pe- 

 duncle, enclosed by fleshy calyx, size of a small apple. Seeds several, 

 glabrous in a viscid pulp. 



Northern Oudh forests ; Burma. Sheds its leaves in February ; the new 

 foliage begins to show iu April, generally after the numerous fine golden 

 flowers. 



A small tree in Oudh, rarely over 2 ft. girth, and 20 ft. high ; in Burma a 

 large handsome tree. Bark of trunk about ^ inch thick, reddish, compact, in- 

 ternally viscid, externally whitish, ashy, or brown, quad tesselated by longi- 

 tudinal and transverse cracks into snbqnadrangular scales, which eventually 

 exfoliate. Heart- and sap-wood not distinct, close and hard. Weight, 45 lb. 



Order II. MAGNOLIACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, often aromatic, with convolute deciduous stipules and 

 alternate leaves. Flowers often large, trimerous. Sepals and petals usually 

 similar, in 2-7 whorls of 3, imbricate, deciduous. Stamens numerous, free, 

 inserted on the torus ; anther-cells adnate to connective. Ovaries numer- 

 ous, often spirally arranged on the elongated torus. Ovules 2 or more 

 on the ventral suture. Seeds with an abundant albumen, and minute 

 embryo.— Gen. Plant, i. 16 ; Eoyle IH. 58 ; Wight 111. i. 9. 



1. MICHELIA, Linn. 



Trees with shining leaves ; buds enveloped in the convolute stipules. 

 Flowers bisexual. Sepals and petals conform, 9 or more, in 3 or more 

 series. Gynophore stalked. Filaments flat. Anthers introrsely adnate. 

 Carpels numerous, spirally arranged on an elongated conical torus, each 

 with 3 or more ovules. Fruit a loose spike of coriaceous, 2-valved, 1-12 

 seeded carpels ; seeds with a fleshy outer testa. 



1. M. champaca, Linn.— Tata. I.— Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 656 ; "W. & A. 

 Prodr. 6 ; Hook. Fl. Ind; i. 42. — Syn. M. aurantiaca, Wall. PI. As. Ear. 

 t. 147. M. Doltsopa, Ham. ; Wall. Tent. Fl. IsTep. t. 3. Sans. Oham,- 

 ■paha. Vern. Charriba, Champa. 



Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 in. long, strongly 

 reticulated, shining and glabrous above,' pallid, more or less pubescent 

 beneath- when young, glabrate afterwards. Flowers axillary, each with 

 a deciduous, coriaceous, cinereous bract. Sepals and petals 15-20, 

 the outer obovate, the inner narrow-linear, yellow or orange, with dark 

 longitudinal veins. Capsules sessile on an elongated stalk, orbicular or 

 broadly oval, opening on the back in two thick valves, dark-coloured, with 

 large white round specks. Seeds 1-12, oval, compressed, brown, about 

 the size of a small pea. 



