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but smaller; gyncecium much longer than the stamens, vermicular. Ripe fruit 3-5 to 6
in. long; individual carpels without beaks, -o in. long and nearly as broad, rugose
externally, 1- rarely 2-seeded.
Assam, near S a d y a , — S i b s a g a r , — P e a l ; Makum Forest, Rengma-Naga
and Mikir Hills,—G. Mann; Sylhet,—rTaZ/itr/i; Cachar,—(?. Mam. Vcrn, ''Bor Gahori
Soppa."
Sir Joseph Hooker described this species from the imperfect material in the
Griffithian collection, and he expressed a doubt whether it might not be a Manglietvi.
Through the kindness of Mr. S. E, Peal, a resident in the Sibsagar district of Assam,
I hare been furnished not only -with excelleut specimens, but with notes and drawings
mado by himself from fresh flowers. I liave also reoeired very full materials frotn
Mr. G. Mann. I am thus able to state that the ovaries have only two ovules, and that the
plant is therefore not a Manglidia (which has six ovules). There is a very distinct stalk
to the gynophore, at least after the ovaries have been impregnated. The presence of a
stalk to the gynophore tlierefore loses its value as a diagnostic mark of the genus
Michelia. This appeai-s to me to be in the order MagnoUacece, rather aa insufficient generic
distinction; and in my humble opinion the two genera, although both are Linnsan
should be merged in one, and Mickelia, being the later of tiie two, should be reduced.
Two sets of specimens, collected respectively by Jlr. Mann in the Katakul Forest
Cachar, and in the Makum Forest, Upper Assam, which apparently belong to this species,
have leaves quite glabrous.
PLATE 48. Magnolia Griffithii, Book. fil. ^ Thorns.—young leaf with stipule;
2, flower-bud enveloped in its spathoid involucre; 3, fully expanded flower; 4, stamens
and carpophore; 5, carpophore farther advanced and showing a stalk; 6, ripe fruitoj
natural size.
PLATE 49. Adult leaves, and fruit after dehiscence of its carpels: of 'natural size.
7. M. PEALIAXA, King, n. sp. A tall tree; young branches rather slender, at fii-st
densely covered with adpressed, pale yellow, silky hair, but speedily glabrous. Leaves thinlv
coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate";
both surfaces minutely but distinctly reticulate: the upper shining, glabrous; the lower
at first puberulous, but quickly becoming glabrous; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, prominent
beneath, ascending, curving, interarciiing freely towards the apices; length 6-5 to 8 in.
breadth 2'5 to 3 in.; petiole '2 to -25 in.; stipules very narrow, 1-25 in. long, sericeous
outside. Flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, on long peduncles, 3 to 4 in. in diam. when fully
expanded; the buds covered by a pointed spathoid involucre which, like the pedicel and
stipules, is covered with pale yellow, adpressed, silky hair; pedicel 1-5 in. long,
half an inch longer in fruit. Sepals 3, coriaceous, linear-oblong, sub-acute; the edo'es
slightly undulate near the apes. Petals 6, of the same shape and texture as, but smaller
than, the eepals; gyncecium more than twice as long as tlie stamens, cylindric. Ripe
fmit 3 to 5 in. long and about -75 in. in diam.; individual carpels -6 in. long by
about -45 in. broad, outside slightly lenticellate, inside smooth and shining; seeds 2.
Michelia Pealiana, King MSS.
Assam, Makum Forest,— G. Mann. Vern. Gahori Soppa.
This species has been named in honour of Mr. S. Peal, of Sibsagar, who has
given much friendly help in working out the Magnoliads of Assam. It is closely
allied to M. Griffithii, Hook. fil. & Thorns., and, as in that species, there is a distinct,
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though short, stalk to the gynophore. It is best distinguished from M. Griffuhii by the
smaller size of its leaves, which, moreover, are at most puberulous even when young,
whereas tliose of M. Grijjilhii are densely sericeous when young.
PLATE 59. Magnolia Pealiana, King.~\, branch with flower; 2, bud; 3, flower
dissected to show all the parts; 4, gj-ncecium; 6, ripe fruit; 7, seeds: of natural sise •
-i, stamens: enlarged.
5. Manglietia, Biume.
Trees; foliage and inflorescence of Magnolia. Sepals 3. Petals 6 or more 2- or
more seriate. Utamtns very numerous, many-seriate ; anthers linear, ad nate, inirorse
Gynophore sessile. Ovaries many, cohering ia an ovoid head; stigma decurrent on thè
ventral suture; ovules 6 or more. Fruit ovoid; carpels persistent, dehiscing dorsally
Seeds as m Magnolia. DISTEIB.—Mountains of tropical Asia " "
1- M. Seiassa.
Shrudby.
Young branches and petioles villoua ; spathoid hood of cal j s fulvoussericeous
Arboreous.
Flowers 3 to a in. in diam.
Leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate-obloEg, 4-5 to 7 ia. bng;
flowers 4 to 5 in. in diam.; carpels 3- to 4.seeded . .
Leaves elliptic or elHptio-oblong, 8 to 10 in. long; flowers
4 in. m diam.; cajpels 1-seeded
Leaves oval or oBovate-oblong, 5 to 7 in. long ; flowers 3 in. in
diam.; carpels S-seeded
I'lowers less than 1 in. in diam.
Leaves lanceolate, rufous-pubeseent beneath
Í. M. glauca.
M. Kimitkri.
1 M. M,,. Ann. M.. Bat. iv, 71. A shrub ¡ adult brauche.
pale sh>m„g bark; young tawnyvdlous, as ate the petioles. coriaceous oblou"'
oblanccolate, acute, much narrowed at the base, glabrous aud sbiuiuf; on bo h
búllate; nerves . U to 20 pairs, prominent; length of blade 11 ,„ M ¡ f T T.'
4-5 to 7 in.; petiole 1 in., much thickened at base. F,o„„ solitary, terminal „
Tdlous peduncles 2 to 3 ,n. long. Spathoid bract densely adnressed M J '
and about 9, fleshy, pale yellow, from obovL to ab r u r
traded into a daw at the base, nearly 2 in. long. S , a „ with very , to! fi^
about 20. m,. il i , u „ l , oblong, lenticellate.-^ J T
Su„l. 367; King in A,. Soc. Bag. vol i» pt ¡i 370
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DISTEIB.—Sumatra.
The specimens collected by the late Mr. Künstler are without fruit. Thev a-ree
m other respects with the Sumatran specimens on which Miquel founded the species"
P 1 Í T I Í 0 4 . MmglietiaSebassa, .¥¿í.._Flower¡ng branch: 0 / '
- e t i o L ^ y» » . ' branches
C , tb " i" l™» P » b « c e n t ; all other parts glabrous; b anches annulate
X » » th,nly ecrraceous, oblanceolate to lanceola,e-oblong or ellipt c, acate or shoíly
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