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Carpophore sessile, carpels closely packed. 
Fruit, elongate, cylindric, ovules 2 ... 1. Magnolia. 
„ ovoid, ovules 6 ... ... 2. Manglietia. 
Carpophore stalked, carpels distant ... 3. Mickelia. 
Carpels when ripe sepaz-ating from the sessile 
carpophore and dehiscing ventmlly ...4. Takutma. 
Tribe II. Winterice, Flowers usually bisoxual. Shrubs 
or small trees. Stipules 0. Carpols in one whorl 5. Iliicium. 
Tribe III. ScMzandrecB. Flowers unisexual. Climb- 
ing shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. 
CarpelB of fruit capitate ... ... ... 6. Kad&ura, 
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 aduate, introrse. Gynophore 
sessile. Carpels many, imbricated on a long axis, 2-ovuled, persistent ; 
stigmas decurrent on the ventral Bature. Fruit an elongated axis, with 
persistent adnate 1-2-seeded dorsatly dehiscing follicles. Seeils 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. Ma INQ ati, King, n. sp. A tree. Young branches and inflores- 
cence densely clothed Avith pale shaggy hair. Leaves membranous, 
oblanceolate-oblong or obovate, acuminate, narrowed to tiio rounded 
base; upper surface glabrous, the lower glaucous, the midrib sparsely 
villous ; nerves 16 to 20 pairs ; length of blade G to 8 in., breadth 25 to 3 
in., petiole *3 in. Flowers terminal, solitary, shortly pedunculate, buds 
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, 15 in. long by '6 in. diam. ; the individual carpels ovoid, not beaked, 
•35 in. long, villous. 
Malacca, (Maingay No. J 7), Perak, Ponang ; in dense low forest up 
to 2,500 feet. 
2. Manglietia, Blurae. 
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 au ovoid head ; stigma decurrent on the ventral suture ; 
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