. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 8 III. MACfNOLIACE^ [Michelia dark red or ferrugijiepus tomentum, full grown leaves nearly glabrous. Fl. axillary, white, scented, 4 in. across. Perianth leaves 12, obovate and spathu- late. Fruiting spike lax, 4-8 in. long. Carpels h in., shortly beaked. Seeds red. Himalaya from Nepal eastwards, 5,000-8,000 ft. Kliasi and Naga hills. Fl. March. 9. M. Champaca, Linn.; Brandis F. Fl. t. 1.—Syn. M. aurantiaca, Wall. ; PI. As. Ear. t. 147. Vern. C
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 8 III. MACfNOLIACE^ [Michelia dark red or ferrugijiepus tomentum, full grown leaves nearly glabrous. Fl. axillary, white, scented, 4 in. across. Perianth leaves 12, obovate and spathu- late. Fruiting spike lax, 4-8 in. long. Carpels h in., shortly beaked. Seeds red. Himalaya from Nepal eastwards, 5,000-8,000 ft. Kliasi and Naga hills. Fl. March. 9. M. Champaca, Linn.; Brandis F. Fl. t. 1.—Syn. M. aurantiaca, Wall. ; PI. As. Ear. t. 147. Vern. Champ, Champa, Hind.; Sampighi, Kan.; Cham- pakmn, Tel.; Shemhtiga, Tarn.; Saga, Burm. A large evergreen tree, heartwood light brown, young shoots silky. Leaves nearly glabrous when full grown, blade 8-10, petiole slender, |-1 in. Fl. yellow or orange, strongly scented, shortly pedunculate, 2 in. across. Perianth leaves 15. Fruiting spike compact, 3-6 in. long. Carpels ovoid, blunt, lenticellate. Seeds brown. Wild on the Western Gliats in the southern portion of the peninsula (Beddome), in Sikkim (up to 3,000 ft.) and in Lower Burma (Kurz). Cultivated in the moister parts of India and Burma. Fl. H. and E. S. 10. M. manipurensis, Watt MSS. Khongui hill, Manipur, April, 1882, G. Watt. A remarkable species resembling M. Champaca. Leaves puberulous beneath, with very minute hairs, style as long as ovary, which is elotlied Avith ferruginous hairs. Fruit unknown. 11. M. montana, Blume; Ann. Bot. G-. Calc. 111. t. 68. Sikkim, Assam, Silhet, Java. An anomalous species with only 1 or 2 cariDels, which are 1-2 in. long, 1 in. broad, woodv. Leaves 3-8 in., elliptic Secondary nerves 8-12 pair, prominent beneath. 4. TALAUMA, Juss. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 40. Differs from Magnolia by the structure of the fruiting spike. Carpels woody, and dehiscing by the ventral suture, or spongy and indehiscent, but finally separating from the axis. Species 20, in the tropical and subtropical regions of Easte
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