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II. MAGNOLIACEiE 
II. MAGNOLIACEiE 
A small Order, chiefly American and Asiatic, represented in the 
N.W. Himalaya only by a single species. — Named in honour of 
Pierre Magnol, a French botanist of the seventeenth century. 
SCHIZANDRA. From the Greek schizo, to cleave, and aner, 
andros, a man ; referring to the separated anther cells. — Mountains 
of India and Java, N. America. 
Schizandra grandiflora, Hook. f. & Thoms . ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 44. A 
glabrous, climbing shrub with long, slender branches. Leaves alter- 
nate or clustered, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or with small 
distant teeth, stalks and veins on the lower surface red. Flowers 
fragrant, 1 -sexual, globose, 1 in. diam., on drooping axillary stalks. 
Sepals and petals 9, similar, waxy -white often tinged with pink, 
ovate, concave, outer ones smaller. Male flowers : stamens about 
40, small, crowded on an ovoid, fleshy column, filaments thick, 
anther-cells separated. Female flowers rather larger than the 
