MICHELIA DOLTSOPA. 
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is commonly sold under the name of Champ. Its texture is very fine, the colour at 
first greenish, but soon changing into pale yellow. 
I am doubtful whether to consider this fine tree as a Magnolia or a Michelia ; it has 
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entirely the structure of the flower and spicate rounded capsules of the latter genus, 
while the colour and smell ol the flow er and the solitary pendulous seed is that of the 
former. Perhaps a salutary reform might be effected by removing all the species 
of Magnolia, as it stands at present, w hich are furnished with rounded spicate, not im¬ 
bricate, capsules to Michelia, which arrangement would, in all probability, comprize 
most, il not all Guillimite, De Candolle 1. c. p. 450 et p. 455; a suggestion w hich has 
indeed been hinted at by himself in p. 447. 
MICHELIA DOLTSOPA, De Candolle . TAB. 3. 
Foliis elliptico-ovatis, valde aeuminatis, subtus puberulis, longe petiolatis ; alabastris 
gemmisque ferrugineo-tomentosis; petalis quindeeim, interioribus angustissi.nis. 
Michelia Doltsopa , De Land, syst, nat. 1. p. 448. 
Incolit varias sylvas Xapalim, tarn vallis ipsius quam montium minorum huic vicinis, 
florens Aprili et Mayo; fructlfera sub-pluviis. 
Ai boi niagna umbrosa, altitudine GO- pedal i, trimco satis regulari crasso.— iHamuli 
teretes, cicatricibus plus minusve obliquis anmdati, dense vestiti villositate sericea fusca; 
fptatc pi ovectioies glabri, cineiei, calfoso punctuti .—Doha magis forsan quam in reli- 
quis remota, patentissi.ua, integerrima, ad marginem leviter undulata, ovate, in acumen 
gracile, longum attenuata, basi acuta, nunc rotundato-acuta, palmaria ad 10-pollicaria, 
(oiiacea, sup. a laevissima, lucida; subtus parum glaucescentia puberula, siccitate utrin- 
que venuloso-reticulata. Petwlus valde gracilis, pollicaris et sesquipollicaris, teres, 
fcn ugineo-villosus, ultra medium uotatus vestigio insertiouis stipularura gracili elon- 
gato. Stipules aureo-v. fusco-villosae, connate in gemmam c>lindricum acuminataui 
elongatam. Flos (fig. 1.) axillaris, solitarius, illo Champacae vulgaris fere din idio major, 
petiolo parum lougior, flavus, valde fragrans. Alabastrum cylindrico-oblongiini, deus6 
vestitmu tomento fusco velutiuo, bipollicare, spathi (fig. 2.) duplici caducissin.5 indu- 
tum. Pedum ulus brevis, velutinus, cicatricibus duabus annularibus notatus.— Petala 
quindeeim valde patula, ternario ordine disposita, quinque scilicet in singulo ordine, ub- 
longo-spatliulata, acuta, ad basin angustatam n.unita pi.be furfuraced punetis minutissi- 
mis impressis iuterspersa; coeterum glabra ; interiora valde angusta fere linearia. Am 
thenv subsessiles dorso latiore in apiculam subcarnosam desinente ; loculamenta late- 
lalite. dehiscentia. Tot us ovariorum velutinorum cylindricus supra antlieras sessilis. 
Stylus (fig. 3.) brevissimus, recurvatus, valde papillosus. 
Observation. 
As far as it is possible to judge from the short description of professor De Candolle, 
made from dried specimens of trees, which even in their natural and growing state 
are difficult of discrimination, I conclude that this is the species described by him un¬ 
der the name given above. Latifolia or macrophylla would have been an appropriate 
name, and one at once indicative of the chief specific distinction of the tree ; it would 
at any rate be far preferable to a vague native name, w hich my most valued friend Dr. 
Hamilton, though in general incliued to employ such on the spur of the moment, in the 
hurry and inconvenience of travelling, for the purposes of easier reference, probably did 
not intend as a permanent one. No nation on earth is more fertile in the production 
of names of plants than those of India, who appear to have coined appellations in the 
hope oi multiplying real or supposed virtues ad infinitum. This evil is greatly aug- 
