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3. MAGNOLIACB^. 



[Mtc/ielta. 



Ordee 3. MAGNOLIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs with convulute stipules. Sepals and petals usually 

 similar^ trimerous, imbricated. Stamens many, free on torus. 

 Ovaries numerous, often spirally on torus. Seeds albuminous. 

 Embryo minute. 



MICHELIA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves simple, alternate. Filaments flat. Gynophore 

 stalked. Carpels numerous, each with 3 or more ovules. Fruit a 

 spike of 2-valved, 1-12-seeded, dehiscent carpels. Seeds albuminous 

 with a fleshy testa. 



M. Champaca, Linn. ; Fl, "Br. I. 1. 42 ; Bi andis For. Fl. 3. Kud cham- 

 pa, M. ; Kola sampige, K. ; Champa, Vem. ; Bae champo, champo, Guz. 



Nepal, Assam, Burma, and the Nilgiris. Western ghats of Kanara. A 

 large evergreen tree commonly culti\ ated near temples, thronghont the 

 presidency. Flowers at various seasons. Ripe fruit in the cold season. 



Wood olive-brown, soft and durable. Pores small, equally distributed. 

 Med. rays moderately broad, short and wavy. Weighs 33 lbs. to the 

 cubic foot. Seaeons and takes a good polish. Used for planking, house- 

 building and furniture. The scented flowers are used as an offering in 

 Hindu temples. Bark, fruit, flowers and leaves are employed in native 

 medicine. The flowers yield a yellow dye. 



Order 4. AN0NACE.aE3. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire^ exstipulate. Flowers 

 bisexual, rarely unisexual. Sepals and petals trimerous. Stamens 

 usually indefinite, the connective often produced. Ovaries numerous, 

 rarely solitary, free (in Anona connate) ; styles short or stigmas- 

 sessile ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. Carpels 1 or more, sessile or 

 stalked ; 1 or more seeded. Seeds large. Albumen ruminate, often 

 divided almost to the axis into series of horizontal plates ; embryo 

 small ; cotyledons divaiicating. 



Anther-cells concealed by the orerlapping or pro- 

 duced connectives. 



Petals 2-3eriate, imbricate in bnd. Ovaries indefi- 

 nite, ovules mary, 2-ieriate 1. Utaeia. 



Petals valvafce in bud, inner subsimilar or 0. 

 Ovaiieg many, 2-ovuled ; peduncles woody, 



hooked 2. Artabotrys. 



Ovaries numerous, ovules 2-6, 1-seriate on the 



ventral suture ... ... 3. Unona. 



Ovaries many, ovules 1-2, basal 4. PolyalthiA. 



Petals 2-seriate, valvate in bud, inner dissimilar, 



conniving and arching over the stamens .„ 5. GoniothalAMUS, 

 Petals valvate in bud, inner similar, but smaller ... 6. Anona. 

 Anther-celis not concealed by the connectives. 



Petals valvate, inner largest. Ovules indefinite ... 7- Saccopetalum. 

 Petals valvate, inner shortest. Ovules 2-4 ... 8- Orophea. 

 Petals imbricate, subequal. Ovules 2-8 ... 9. Sagbk^> 



