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ORDER III. MAGNOLIACEZ. 
Wrees or shrubs with alteriate cofiaceous leaves: stipules 
deciduous: sépals 3-6; deciduous: pétdls hypogynous, 3-27, 
in sevéral rows: statiéns hypogynous, distitict : anthers adnate, 
bursting letigthwise: flowers solitary, usually very fragrant: 
carpels several: ovules one or more; ascending or suspended : 
fruit consisting of séveral caitpels, diy or succulent, dehiscent 
or indehiscent, collected. upon & lengthenéd axis, and sometimes 
énding in a wing: seeds solifaty, ofteh with an aril; and occa~ 
sionally suspended by a slender cord: embryo minute: albumen 
fleshy: 
. GENUS I. MICHELIA. 
Polyandria Polygyinia. Sex: 84st: 
Derié. From Micheli; a Florentine Botanist. 
Gen. Ciiar: Trees with entire petioled leaves and axillary 
Howers: catpéls attanged on a loose spike; 2-yalvéd, opening down- 
wards from the apex: seeds several, externally ffeshy. 
(1) M. Nizaéirica. (Zenker. ) 
Ident. Wight's I: f. p. 14.—Zenker. pl. Ind. p. 20. 
Syn: M, Pulneyensis, Wight, Ill. ¥. p. 14.—M. ovalifolia, 
Wight. lc. p. 18. 
Engrat. Wigkt’s Spicil. I. t. 6.—Ie. t; 938.—I1. I. t. 5. 
Spec. Cuan. Leaves elliptic; glabrows; acuminated: stipules 
and spathes silky : petals 8, in two rows: stdmens shorter than the 
column of fructification: carpéls 1-seeded, warty : ovaries numerous, 
l-ovuled: flowers white; sometimes with a tinge of yellow. 
Neilgherry Hills, flowering during the rains. 
(2) M. excensa. (Blume. ) 
_ Ideni. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind, I. p. 80.—Wight’s I. 1. p. 
14, 
Syn Magnolia excelsa; Wall. tent. Flor. Nep. p. 5. 
Engrao. Wall. l. ce t. 2. 
Spec. Cuan. Large tree: branchlets wrinkled and ‘scattered 
with callous points: Jeaf-buds brown-pubescent: leaves coriaceous, 
acute or acuminate, shining above, covered with silky reddish to- 
