1592- The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



MAGNOLIA DELAVAYI 



Magnolia Delavayi, Franchet, PL Delav. 33, tt. 9, 10 (1889); Sprague, in Bot. Mag. t. 8282 (1909). 



An evergreen tree, about 30 ft. high. Young branchlets glaucous, minutely 

 pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, persistent two years, ovate-oblong or elliptic, 7 to 12 

 in. long, and 4 to 7 in. wide, rounded and mucronate at the apex ; dull green and 

 glabrous above; lower surface glaucous, with scattered fine pubescence; midrib 

 beneath very prominent and, like the petiole, very stout and more or less pubescent. 



Flowers creamy white, fragrant, about 7 in. across; sepals three, oblong, 

 reflexed ; petals about seven, spatulate-obovate. Fruit about 5 in. long. 



This is a native of Yunnan in south-western China, where I saw it growing in 

 rocky situations and woods at 5500 to 7000 ft. above sea-level. It was introduced 

 by Wilson in 1900; and flowered at Kew in 1908. It is scarcely hardy at Kew,^ 

 though it thrives against a wall ; but it will probably succeed better in the milder 

 parts of England, Wales, and Ireland. Both the foliage and flowers are very 

 handsome. \^' ■"•) 



MAGNOLIA HYPOLEUCA 



Magnolia hypoleuca, Siebold and Zuccarini, in Abh. Ak. Miinchen, iv. pt. ii. 187 (1845); Sargent, in 

 Garden and Forest, i. 304, fig. 49 (1888); Matsumura, in Journ. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo^ 

 xii. 284 (1899); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, i. text 70, t. 39, figs. 13-29 (1900); 

 Skan, in Bot. Mag. t. 8077 (1906); Mayr, Fremdland. Wald- u. Parkbdume, 481 (1906). 



A deciduous tree, attaining 100 ft. in height and 10 ft. in girth in Japan. 

 Young branchlets glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, often crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, obovate or obovate-elliptic, about 8 to 15 in. long and 6 to 8 in. broad, 

 acute or cuspidate at the apex : upper surface light green, glabrous ; lower surface 

 bluish grey, with scattered curved white hairs, often with dense appressed 

 pubescence on the midrib ; petiole pubescent. 



Flowers, opening when the leaves are nearly fully grown, very fragrant, 6 to 8 

 in. across, creamy white or white ; sepals coriaceous, tinged with red : petals nine, 

 coriaceous, obovate-spatulate, rounded or cuspidate at the apex. Fruit red, 5 to 

 8 in. long. 



M. kypoleuca is a native of China and Japan. In central and western China 

 it is commonly cultivated around dwellings in mountainous districts at elevations 

 between 2500 and 4500 ft. It is known to the Chinese as kou-p'o, its bark' being 

 esteemed as a valuable drug, which is exported to all parts of China. Neither 



I Cf. ICew Bull. 1909, p. 235. A tree in the Temperate House at Kew is about 20 ft. high. 

 * Recorded as doubtfully wild in the Liu Kiu Islands. 



' Cf. Hanbury, Sc. Papers, 266 (1876), and Bretschneider, Bot. Sink. iii. 472 (1895). Pke Hayidi, Journ. Trots. Voy. 

 Chine, ii. 360 (1875), mentions a large plantation of this tree in the province of Kiangsi. 



