N a tiv e o f Ceylon whence my specimens were communicated
by Colonel Walker.
Apparently a shrub, with smallish (3 or 3 | inches
long, by 1£ broad) coriacacious leaves flowers, large in
proportion, petals 4 or 5 times the length of the
stamens and column, ovaries, as in all the other species
I have examined, clothed with whitish hair.
7 . M.glauca. (R.W.) Very ramous; branches rigid,
short, glabrous, except the extreme shoots: leaves
glaucous beneath, obovate, much attenuated towards
the base, ending in a short blunt acumen: stipules and
spathes whitish, silky, petals 6, spreading, obovate:
stamens numerous ; filaments nearly equalling the
short anthers, which together, scarcely exceed the
pedicel of the column of fructification, and are about
six times shorter than the petals: ovaries numerous,
densely congested towards the point of the column:
styles recurved at the point only : fruit—
A native o f Ceylon, where it was fo u n d by Colonel
Walker, who communicated specimens, but without
fru it.
This like the other Ceylon species, judging from
specimens only, has more the appearance of a shrub
than a tree : the leaves rarely exceed an inch and half
in length, and are nearly as much in breadth across the
broadest part, near the point, these are borne, two or
three together; on the extremities of numerous short
rigid branches. The most distinctive mark however
o f the species is, the short anthers in proportion to the
filaments. Generally the anthers are three or four
times the length of the filaments, but here, they scarcely
exceed that standard, and then both barely equal the
length of the elongated pedicel of the ovarial column.
C. Petals in a quaternery order,
8. M. excelsa. (Blume. Magnolia excelsa "Wall.
Tent. FI. Jtferal), Leaves oblong, elliptic, acuminated,
glaucous beneath, stipules and spathes, tomentose,
deep rusty brown coloured, petals 12 in a treble series,
(quaternery) stamens numerous, one third the length
of the petals, filaments very short: ovaries, small,
4ovuled: carpels, sub-globose, small, warty, one seeded:
seed enclosed in red fleshy pulp.
Nepal.—Sheapore hill at an elevation o f about 7000
f e e t above the sea. Flowering in March—f r u i t ripe in
October— Wall.
This magnificent tree attains the height of from 50
to 80 feet, and is most remaikably limited in its station
being, Dr. Wallich informs us, confined to a single spot
on mount Sheapore. The wood is highly prized by
the natives of Nepal, where it is sold under the name
o f Champ.
? 9. M.Rheedii. (R. W.) Arborious, glabrous : leaves
elliptic, oblong, acuminated, attenuated at the base :
flowers many petaled, (about 20) in a quaternery (?)
order, the outer series the largest, obtuse, the interior
ones cuspidate: ovaries numerous, congested; styles
caducous, leaving a smooth, circular, shield-like scar on
the apex: ovales numerous (10-12): carpels large, approximated,
rough, marked with numerous prominent
warts, about four seeded; seeds triangular, testa hard,
black, enveloped in red fleshy pulp.
Champacam Rheede Hort. Mai. 1. tab. 19. M. Cham-
paca partly Lin. Willd. DeCandolle, not Blume.
A native o f Malabar and the more elevated hills o f
the Peninsula, Pulney mountains at an elevation o f
about 5000fe e t. Shevaroy hills 4500—on both o f whicn
I gathered specimens.
T am enabled by means of cultivated specimens of
the Champaca, which correspond in almost every particular
with Blume’s character, so far as it goes, to separate
this species, though on characters less precise
and satisfactory than I could have wished, owing to
my specimens not being in flower. The ovaries and
carpels afford, in the present state of our knowledge,
the best distinctive characters, the polished shield-like
the ovaries is very characteristic, while the large prominent
warts of the carpels are scarcely less so,
? 10. M. nilagirica. (Zenker) Leaves elliptic, glabrous,
acuminated,. acute at the base; stipules and
spathes silky: petals 8 in two verticels: stamens shorter
than the column o f fructification: ovaries numerous,
1-ovuled: carpels one seeded, warty.
Neelghei'ries tn woods. Flowers white.
This species associates in so many points with my
plant, that 1 suspect a more careful examination will
unite them. The points of difference are, that in M.
nilagirica, the spathes are described as single in place
o f double, the corolla as 8 petaled, ranged in quateiv
nery series, 4 and 4, in place of 6-9 in ternary order,
and lastly, as having ovaries with solitary ovules, in
place 4 in each,
§ 2. One bractial and two calycine spathes,
11. M. Pulneyensis. (R.W.) Glabrous, leaves elliptic,
or sub-obovate, acuminated, acute at the base: stipules
and spathes, clothed with silky appressed hairs;
petals 6-9, ranged in ternary order, exterior ones obovate,
interior when nine, Ianciolate: stamens numerous
mucronate, nearly equalling the column of fructification
: ovaries numerous, 4-oVuled: fruit—
Woods, Pulney mountains at an elevation o f 6000
fe e t, flowering in September.
A handsome, tall, straight, tree,with ascending scarcely
spreading branches. The leaves vary in their form,
being elliptic in some and passing into obovate in
others, coriacious, glabrous. Peduncles shorter than the
petiols, thick, haii-y, marked with two rings, where the
spathes have separated, stamens numerous, caducous,
except two, which often remain, long after the others,
attached to the middle pedicel, ovaries numerous,
ovules, very constantly, four, suspended.
? M. Lanuginosa. (Wall. Tent. FI. Nepal.) Every
where clothed with greyish woolly pubescence: leaves
oval, obtusely acuminated, slightly attenuated and
acute at the base; stipules and spathes, tomentose:
petals about 12 in a ternary (?) order: column of fructification
nearly twice the length of the stamens: ova?
ries numerous, carpels sub-globose, 2 or 3 seeded.
Woods o f Nepal, flowering in A p r il and May.
This species is readily distinguished by being every
where clothed with woolly pubescence. As already
observed I have referred it doubtfully to this section,
on account of its supposed double spathe, two being
figured, and mentioned in the description^
EXPLANATION P F PLATE.
5th.—Magnoliaceje.
1 and 6.— 1. Flowering branch of Micheliu Pulney .-
ensisj and 6, spike of ripe fruit of M. Rheedii, natural
size.—2. Flower bud, the exterior, or bractial spathe
removed, and showing the 2 calycine spathes ready to
drop off.—3. Torus, stamens, and column of fructificar
tjon.—4. Anther, front view.—5. Ovary, entire, and cut
vertically, to show the pendulous ovules.—7- 8. Seeds,
entire, and cut transversely, all more or less magnified.
—9. Seed, natural size, covered with pulp, and 10 (by
mistake also 9) the same (the pulp removed) somewhat
magnified to show its triangular form.
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