— 122 — 



Kobus Banks, Icon, t, 42 (1791). 



Magnolia gracilis (non Salisbury) Loudon, Arb. & Frut. Brit. 

 I p. 283 (1S38)-Nakai, Veget. Isl. Quelpasrt p. 47 no. 642 (1914) 

 -Mom, Eiium. Corean PI. 165 (1922). 

 Yulania Kobus Spach, Hist. Veg. VII p. 467 (1839). 

 Bucrgeria obovata Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Acad. Wiss. 



Muench. IV Abt. 2 p. 187 (1845), pro pferte. 

 Talauma f Sicboldii Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II p. 

 257 (1866), pro parte ; Prol. p. 145 (1866), pro parte ; Cat. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd. Bat. p. 4 (1870), pro parte. 

 Magnolia Thurberi Parsons' 1 ' in Garden XIII p. 572 (1878), sine 



descript. 

 Magnolia Thurberi Hort. ex Hand-List of Trees & Sbrubs. Kew 

 Gard. I p. 17 (1894) ; ed. 2. p. 15 (1902), pro synonymo M. Ko- 

 bus. 

 Magnolia hobushi Mayk, Fremdl. Wald. u. Parkbaume Eur. p. 



484 fig. 207 (1906), excl. syn. 



Magnolia precocissima Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XL1TI p. 



3S6 (1929)-Honda in Honda & Sakisaka, Syst. PL Jap. p. 199 



fig. 123 (1930)-Makino & Nemoto, PL Jap. ed. 2 p. 356 (1931). 



Arbor. Cortex cinereus. Gemrnfe oblongae primo apice pilosse demum 



glabrescentes. Folia annua; petioli 5-25 mm. longi primo pilosi demum 



glabrescentes supra canaliculati ; lamina obovata vel oblonga 42-147 mm. 



longa 22-79 mm. lata supra viridis adpresse sparse pilosella mox glabres- 



cens infra pilosella mox glabrescens margine integerrima basi cuneata 



apice mucronata, venis lateralibus utrinque 9-12, primo berbacea demum 



chartacea. Flores in apice ramulorum annotinorum terminales solitarii 



prsecoces cum gemmis 2 ; sepala 3 angusta recurva 10-15 mm. longa 2-4 



(1) As Rehder gave the note in Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Ge- 

 sellschnft no. 42 p. 41 (1930), Magnolia Kobus of A. P. de Candolle was described princi- 

 pally basing on the plate 42 in Banks' Icones which was formerly drawn by Engel- 

 bert K/empfer during his sojourn in Japan. Hence, there is no need of altering the 

 name to Magnolia Thurnsri, Magnolia kobushi or Magnolia precocissima. Mayr was right 

 in using Jcobushi instead of Kobus for the Japanese name of this species, but the chang- 

 ing the scientific name to Magnolia hobushi contradicts to the International Rules of 

 Nomenclature. 



