Magnolia ^599 



glabrous elsewhere; lower surface greyish, thinly covered with scattered appressed 

 hairs, dense on the midrib and nerves ; lateral nerves about fifteen pairs, with the 

 midrib and margin yellowish ; petiole pubescent. 



Flowers appearing at the same time as the leaves, shortly stalked, 5 to 6 in. 

 across, highly fragrant, resembling in odour those of Calycanthus ; sepals oblong, pink, 

 ultimately deflexed ; petals six to nine, obovate, concave, spreading, cream-coloured. 



This species was described by Sir Joseph Hooker from a shrub, which was 

 purchased in the Japanese Court of the Paris Exhibition in 1889, and which 

 flowered at Kew in the following year. It is unknown in the wild state in Japan, 

 and is possibly a hybrid between M. hypoleuca and M. parviflora. At Stevenstone, 

 North Devon, there is a fine shrub,^ 18 ft. high, with seven main branches, which 

 bore about 100 flowers in June 1909. (A. H.) 



MAGNOLIA STELLATA 



Magnolia stellata, Maximowicz, in Bull. Acad. Imp. Petersburg, xvii. 418 (1872) and Mel. Biol. viii. 

 509 (1872); J. D. Hooker, in Bot. Mag. t. 6370 (1878); Masters, in Gard. Chron. vii. 618 

 fig. 102 (1890), and xxxix. 260, figs. 108, 109 (1906); Nicholson, in Gard. Chron. xvii. 516, 

 fig. 73 (1895). 



Magnolia Halkana, Parsons, in The Garden, xiii. 572, fig. 132 (1878). 



Buergeria stellata, Siebold and Zuccarini, in Abh. Akad. Munchen, iv. pt. ii. 186 (1846). 



A deciduous shrub or small tree. Young branchlets more or less covered with 

 appressed silvery long hairs. Leaves membranous, about 3 in. long and i in. 

 broad, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, gradually tapering to the base ; rounded and 

 emarginate, acute, or shortly acuminate at the apex ; upper surface glabrous ; lower 

 surface green, glabrous between the nerves, which with the midrib and petiole are 

 more or less covered with appressed pubescence or are glabrescent ; lateral nerves 

 about ten pairs ; margin non-ciliate. 



Flowers opening before the leaves, about 3 in. across, sweet-scented, short- 

 stalked ; sepals similar to the petals ; petals nine to eighteen, narrow, linear-oblong, 

 at first spreading, th.en reflexed, white, with a faint pink streak externally. Fruit, 

 about 2 in. long ; carpels cuspidate, only a few ripening. 



This species is a native of Japan, where it is wild in woods in central Hondo, 

 and is everywhere cultivated. It was introduced into cultivation in the United 

 States by Dr. Hall^ in 1862, and was put into commerce by S. B. Parsons of 

 Flushing, New York, under the name M. Halkana. It was introduced^ from Japan 

 into England by Messrs. Veitch, and flowered for the first time in this country in 

 their nursery at Coombe Wood in 1878. It is very hardy and produces flowers 

 most profusely, at an early age, when it is hardly 2 feet high ; and is now seen in 

 many gardens. (A. H.) 



1 Kew Bull. 1909, p. 337. 



2 An account of the plants introduced by Dr. Hall from Japan, is given in The Garden, xiii. 572 (1878), reproduced 

 in Gard. Chron. xlv. 275 (1909). 



s Cf. Hortus Veitchii, 370 (1906). This form has the petals slightly suffused with pink, and has been named var. rosea. 



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