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only 1 ovule, but apparently it is a Manglietia and I put it into this genua 
provisionally. The small rufous leaves, shining on the upper surfaces, 
and small axillary flowers mark it as distinct from any other Indo- 
Halayan Magnoliad. 
3. MlCETELIA, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves as iu Magnolia. Flowers axillary, solitary or termi- 
nal. Sepals aud petals similar, 9 to 15 or more, 3- or more-senate. 
Stamens as in Magnolia. Gynophoro stalked. Carpels in a loose spike, 
stigma docurreut ; ovules 2 or more. Fruit a lax or dense elongate 
spike of coriaceous dorsally dehiscing carpels. Seeds of Magnolia. — 
Distrib. About 15 species ; temp, and trop. Mountains of India. 
1. M. Champaca, Linn. A tall tree, the branchlets pubescent. 
Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather abruptly narrow- 
ed to the base, shining above, pale and glabrous or puborulous beneath ; 
main nerves thin, 12 to 1(3 pairs ; length of blade 4"5 to 9 in. ; breadth 
2 25 to 35 in. ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. Flowers yellow, solitary, axillary or 
terminal, shortly pedunculate ; buds narrowly ovoid, the stipular hood 
silky. Sepals oblong. Petals about 15, narrowly oblong, 1 in. long. 
Ripe fruit 3 to 6 in. long : individual carpels ovoid, lenticolliite, woody. 
DC. Prodr. i, 79 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 656 ; W. & A. Prod, i, 6 ; Wight 
HI i, 13; Blnme Ft. Jav. Magnol t. 1, Bijdr. 7 ; H. f. & T. PI. Ind. 79. 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 42 : Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. ii, 16 ; M. 
rujinervis, DC. 1. c. 79 ; Bl. Bijdr. 8 ; M. Doldsopa, Ham. ex DC. 1. c. ; 
Don Prodr. 226; Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 3 ; M. aurantiaca, Wall. Cat., 
Plant. As. Rar. t 117. M. Uheedii, Wight III. i. 11, t. f. 6. M. r nb- 
inervia, Bl. Fl. Jav. Magnol. p. 14, t. 4. 
In temperate forests in the Straits Settlements, but not common. 
Distrib. India. 
2. M. Montana, Bl. in Verb. Bat. Gen. IX, p. 153. A glabrous tree. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, obovate or obovate- rotund, shortly and 
abruptly apiculate, rather suddenly narrowed to the base ; nerves 10 to 12 
[fairs, thin, spreading; length of blade 6-7*5 in., breadth about 4 in. ; 
petiole, slender '75 in. Flowers white, 1'5 in. in. diam., solitary, terminal 
or axillary, ou annulato peduncles about '5 iu. long. Buds cylindric. 
Sepals and petals about 8, oblanceolate or lanceolate. Pistils 3 to 4. 
Carpels usually single, sub-globular, 15 in. long, the walls lenticellate, 
woody, '5 in. or more thick. Bl. Bijdr. 7, Fl. Jav. Magnol. p. 15, t. 5 : 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, 17. 
Perak, at low elevations. Java, on the mountains. Distrib, Eastern 
Himalaya. 
Specimens from the E. Himalaya have less obovate leaves, and rather 
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