FLORA AND SYLVA, 



MAGNOLIA. 



The genus Magnolia was named in honour of Pierre Magnol, Professor of 

 Medicine and Botany at Montpellier in the latter part of the seventeenth and 

 beginning of the eighteenth century, and it falls to the lot of very few bota- 

 nists to have their name and fame commemorated by so fine a genus. There 

 are at present about thirty species known, of which fifteen are in cultivation 

 in British gardens. The headquarters of the Magnolias are China and Japan 



THE LARGE-LEAVED MAGNOLIA (m. MACROPHYLLA). 

 (Engraved from a photograph taken at Coombe Wood.) 



(including Corea), whence nine species have already been introduced, and several 

 more remain to reward the future traveller and plant collector; one of these 

 is a splendid bush or tree with evergreen leaves 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches in 

 length and about 9 inches broad. This extraordinary species, of which only 

 a solitary specimen was seen by Dr. A. Henry, has not yet been described. 

 Half-a-dozen species occur in the Himalayan region, of which only one, 

 M. Camphellii) has found its way into European gardens. One species is found 



* With coloured plate from drawing by H. G. Moon at Gravetye, April 1902. 



