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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Magnoliacea. 
Trees and shrubs of generally tonic bitterness and conspersed with minute aromatic 
oil-gland, with evergreen or deciduous foliage, with stipules either fugacious or rarely 
wanting, with alternate or subverticillate never toothed and seldom lobed frequently 
dotted leaves enclosed in bud by a generally large stipular scale , with solitary seldom 
umbellate often large scented and showy flower, frequently before expansion spatha- 
ceous-bracteate, with sepals and petals in most cases ternate in each row , and with 
dry, baccate or samaroid carpels. The plants of this order are much more copious 
in North America and tropical Asia than elsewhere, and are not even found yet in 
Europe and Africa, nor in any other part of continental Australia than in the extra- 
tropical eastern and in the south-eastern portion.— Hindi. Gen . 836; Torrey 8f Gray , 
Flor. of North Amer* i. 41; Lindl . Veg. Kingdom , ed. iii . p. 417. 
This order is more by the habit of its plants and their aromatic properties 
distinguished from Eanunculacese than by any constant or important morphological 
characters, but perhaps by the anatomical structure of its wood, which, at least in 
some species, according to Dr. Dindley and Dr. Hooker, resembles that of pines. 
The close relationship of this order to Schizanclrete and Anonacete is manifest. 
DRIMYS. 
Forst. Char . Gen. t. 42; Winterana, Soland. Med. Observ. V. 46; Tasmannia, It. Br. in Card. 
Syst. i. 445 & 547. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or dioecious. Sepals 2-3, imbricate in [estivation, deciduous. 
Petals 2-24, in a single or a few rows, deciduous. Stamens extrorse, several or numerous. Filaments 
broad or thick. Cells of anthers distinct. Ovaries free, 1-10, when several forming a single whorl. 
Ovules numerous, arrayed along the ventral suture in two rows. Stigma sessile. Bem^y fleshy or dry , 
few- or many-seeded. Seeds curved, ovate or renate. Testa brittle, shining. Endopleura netted. 
Raphe thickened, in part free. Embryo straight Radicle superior. 
Smooth or nearly smooth bitter or pungent-aromatic evergreen shrubs or trees of cold regions, 
occasionally descending from the Alps to the lowlands, hitherto found over a great pari of America, in 
New Zealand, Tasmania, South-Eastern Australia, and Borneo. Their leaves short-stalked, perfectly 
entire, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, transparently-dotted without proper stipules; flowers comparatively 
small, on slender pedicels; berries generally blackish.— A chill. Richard , Sert. d’Astrolabe, 50, 1. 19 ; 
Endl. Gen. 838; Hook Icon , t. 576 & 896. 
Sect. Tasmannia. 
Flowers partially unisexual, generally monogynous. Stigma decurrent. 
Drimys aromatica.— Tasmannia aromatica, R. Br. in Cand. Syst. i. 445; Beless. Icon . i. t. 84; 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxi. t. 43; J. Hooli. Flor. Tasin. i. 11 ; Winterana lanceolata, Poiret , Diction, v iii. 799. 
— Native Pepper-tree. 
Leaves oblong-- or ovate-lanceolate, or narrow-oblong-, generally blunt at the apex, gradually tapering 
into the acute base ; umbels subsessile, nearly all terminal; forcers polygamous ; stigma linear , introrsely - 
decurrenti berries roundish. 
