pi Magnoliacee—Lllicium, 
the inner or superior margin. One North American species, 
and four or five from China and Japan. 
1. L. veligiosum, syn. I. anisatwm—A small shrub with 
terminal clusters of small yellowish white flowers. This is 
tender and rarely seen. 
Trisze I. —MAGNOLIEL. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Carpels in several series. Stipules 
large, covering the leaf-buds. 
2. MAGNOLIA, 
Trees or shrubs with conspicuous fragrant solitary terminal 
flowers. Sepals 3. Petals 6 to 12, intwo or more series. Car- 
pels many, in an oblong cone-like spike, 2-seeded, coriaceous, 
opening along the dorsal or outer ede to allow the scarlet or 
brown seeds tu escape, which hang on slender funicles some 
time after the dehiscence of the carpels. About fourteen species, 
from Northern India, Japan and China, and North America. 
Named in honour of Maeuol, a French botanist. 
Fiz. 21. Magnolia erandiflora. (¢ nat. size.) 
1. A. qrandiflora (fig. 21)—A handsome evergreen tree 
with large leaves of a rich glossy green above, and clothed with 
