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MAGNOLIA INSIGXIS. 
et direct^ dependentia, coriacea, parallele et viridiuscule nervosa, pamm reticulata, tri- 
poliicaria. Pet ala octo vel novem, valde crassa et coriacea, alba, demum flavicantia, 
sursmn rosea, figimt et magnitudine satis ah invicem discrepantia, scilicet obovata, cu- 
ueata vel oblonga, obtusa, vel acutiuscula, parallels et graciliter vasculosa, seriebus 
tribus apici pedunculi, circum basin tori, alveolis majnsculis inserta ; interiora sensim 
breviora ssepiusque angustiora, una cum sepalis staminibusque subito delabentia. Cu- 
lumna fructificationis ovato-conica, sesquiunciam longa, basi integrum fere pollicem 
crassa. Torus (tig. 2.) sub-lignosus, crassus, sanguinei colons, columnaris, dimidifi in- 
feriore parte punctis eleganter decussantibus a staminum insertione inscriptus ; superne 
cum ipsis ovarioruin basibus conferruminatus.— Stamina (tig. 3, 4.) pluriina imbricata, 
adpressa, lineas octo longa, interiora sensim elevatiora, apicibus oblique truncatis rhom- 
boideis regulariter decussantia. Filamenta brevissima, crassiuscula, carnosa, rufa; 
anthera> lineari-oblongae, apiculat®, utrinque loculiferae, loculis albicantibus introreutn 
(fig. 4.) dehiscentibus, polline albo e particulis cylindricis confla to—Omria (fig. 5, 6.) 
pluriina, cuneata, sub-quadrangularia, e viridi glaucescentia, minutiin punctulata, gla¬ 
bra, arete imbricata, vertice truncata rhomboidefi sulco perpendiculari intermedio exsculp- 
ta; inferiora magis latitudine verticali, superiora plus longitudine extensa, fabric^ fibro- 
so-lignosa ; unilocularia, (fig. 7.) loculo ad basin locato laevi lucido angusto, 4-6-spora: 
ovula grandiuscula, angulo interiori loculi per paria adtixa. Stylus ex angulo snpe- 
riore verticis ovari i surgens, erect us, subulatus, tres l ineas longus, deciduus, dorso sulco 
notatus, apice pamm patulus. Stigma latus externum styli occupans, scabriusculum, 
constans papillis numerosis minutis.— Capsule/' valde numerosae, dense imbricatm, verti- 
cales, magnitudine et figurA. variantes, unguem digiti medii baud superantes, compres- 
sa?, laeves, purpureae, dispositas in strobilum (fig. 9.) ovato-oblongum, quinque-pollicarein, 
obtusum, erectum, sutfultum pedunculo lignoso columnari bipollicari undo, vestigiis in- 
sertionis spa time partiumque ttoris inscripto ; vertice rhomboid e A vertical iter jnxta sul- 
cuni perpendicularem debiscentes in valvulas (tig. 10.) duas plano-concavas ligneas* 
intus tegumento cliartaceo laevissimo nitente munitas.— Semina (fig. 11.) tria vel qua- 
tuor, ovata, dorso convexa, bine angulata, sibi invicem adpressa, magnitudinis pisi majo- 
ris, coccinea, laevia, angulo loculi interiori, bases valvularum connectenti, adfixa ope 
funiculorum brevium sericeorum niveorum, borumque elongatione fere semi-pollicari 
demum extra cavitatem dependentia. Ovula aliquot minuta, sterilia s. abortiva, emar- 
cida observanda sunt ad basin sen atigulum interiorem loculi, inter tuniculos. Arillus 
(fig 12 ) carnosus, lineam dimidiam fere crassus, ruberrimus, odore et sapore pamm 
aromatico, ad basin seminis, axi strobili obversam, insculptus fovea umbilicali parvl 
Integument uni exterius durum, fere osseum, leviter scrobiculatum, atrum, nitidum, 
compressum, lenticulare, crassiusculum, extremitate superiore perforatum umbilico in¬ 
ter no, illo exteriori diametrice opposite. ]ntegumentum interius constans pellicula, 
tenuissima perispermum involvente carnosum acqueo-pallidum, cavitatem exacte re- 
plens. Embryo (fig. 13.) minutus, in parte supreme perispenni prope umbiheum in¬ 
ternum pendulus, rectus, niveus; cotyledones ovata?, obtusa^; radicula subturbinata, 
obtusa, super a ! 
Observation. 
It is scarcely possible to contemplate a more magnificent object than this noble tree 
exhibits, both when it is covered with flowers and in fruit. INothing can exceed 
the former in elegance; they are very large, of a white or yellowish-white colour, 
tipped with pink, while the reflected calyx or rathei* calycine petals are ot a brownish 
red tint elegantly reticulated with greenish nerves and veins; their smell is agreeable, 
somewhat resembling that of Magnolia glauca, and though not very strong, yet the ac¬ 
cumulated frairranee of the innumerable blossoms, with which this tree is covered at 
one and the same time, extends to a great distance. They are of no long duration, as 
