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Carpophore sessile, carpels closely packed. 



Fruit, elongate, cylindric, ovules 2 ... 1. Magnolia. 

 ,, ovoid, ovules 6 ... ... 2. Manglietia, 



Carpopliore stalked, carpels distant ... 3. Michelia. 

 Carpels Tphen ripe separating from the sessile 



carpophore and dehiscing ventrally ... 4. Talawna. 



Tribe II. Winteria}. Flowers usually bisexual. Shrubs 



or small trees. Stipules 0. Carpels in one whorl 5. IlKcium. 

 Tribe III. ScMzandrew. Flowers unisexual. Climb- 

 ing shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. 

 Cai'pels of fruit capitate ... ... ... 6. Kadsura. 



1. Magnolia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen or deciduous ; buds enveloped 

 in the convolute stipules, which are connate in pairs. Flowers large, 

 terminal. Sepals 3. Petals 6 to 12, 2 to 4-seriate. Stamens numerous, 

 many-seriate, filaments flat ; anthers adnate, introrse. Qynoplwre 

 sessile. Carpels many, imbricated on a long axis, 2-oviiled, persistent ; 

 stigmas decun-ent on the ventral suture. Fruit an elongated axis, with 

 persistent adnate 1-2-seedcd dorsally dehiscing follicles. Seeds pendu- 

 lous from the carpels by a long cord ; outer walls of testa fleshy : 

 albumen oily. — Distrib. Temp. N. America, temp, and trop. E. Asia and 

 Japan ; species about 16. 



M. Maingayi, King, n. sp. A tree. Young branches and inflores- 

 cence densely clothed with pale shaggy hair. Leaves membranous, 

 oblanceolate-oblong or obovate, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded 

 base ; upper surface glabrous, the lower glaucous, the midrib sparsely 

 villous ; nerves 16 to 20 pairs ; length of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 2-5 to 3 

 in., petiole "3 in. Flotvers terminal, solitary, shortly pedunculate, buda 

 ovoid, the stipular hood villous like the pedicel. Sepals 3, oblong. 

 Petals about 6, of the same shape as the sepals but smaller, yellowish- 

 white, glabrous, 1 to 1-3 in. long. Ovaries villous. Eipe fruit cylin- 

 dric, 1-5 in. long by "6 in. diam. ; the individual carpels ovoid, not beaked, 

 •35 in. long, villous. 



Malacca, (Maingay No. 17), Perak, Ponang ; in dense low forest up 

 to 2,600 feet. 



2. Manglietia, Blume. 

 Trees ; foliage and inflorescence of Magnolia. Sepals 3. Petals 6 or 

 more, 2- or more-seriate. Stamens very numerous, many-seriate; 

 anthers linear, adnate, introrse. Gynophore sessile. Ovaries many, 

 cohering in an ovoid head ; stigma decurrent on the ventral suture ; 



