Trees or shrubs, mainly of tropical regions, including, in our section, the three following genera:

Genus 1. MAGNÒLIA.

Trees and tall shrubs with alternate, thick, smooth, entire leaves with deciduous stipules which form the bud-scales, and are attached entirely around the stem, leaving a ridge, as in Liriodendron.

Flowers very large (3 to 10 in. in diameter), usually white, solitary.

Fruit a large cone from which the seeds, drupe-like, usually red, hang out on long threads during the autumn.

* Blooming with or before the opening of the leaves. (A.)
A. Flowers entirely white 9, 10.
A. Flowers dark purple 11.
A. Flowers mixed purple and white. A large number of hybrids from China and Japan.
* Blooming after the leaves expand. (B.)
B. Leaves evergreen, more than 8 in. long 1.
B. Leaves evergreen, not 6 in. long 2.
B. Leaves deciduous. (C.)
C. Leaves decidedly auriculate or cordate at the base. (D.)
D. Leaves very large (1 to 3 ft. long) 5.
D. Leaves smaller and much clustered at the tips of the flowering branches 6.
C. Leaves not conspicuously cordate at base. (E.)
E. Leaves clustered at the tips of the flowering branches 7.
E. Leaves scattered along the branches. (F.)
F. Base of leaf abrupt 3, 4.
F. Base of leaf tapering. (G.)
G. Leaves quite large, about 1 ft. long; a very erect growing tree 8.
G. Leaves smaller, medium thick, glossy above
medium thin (5 to 10 in. long) 		2.
3.

M. grandiflòra.

1. Magnòlia grandiflòra, L. (Large-flowered Magnolia. Southern Evergreen Magnolia.) Leaves evergreen, thick, oval-oblong; upper surface glossy, under surface somewhat rusty. Flowers large, 6 to 10 in. wide, white, fragrant. In spring. Fruit oval, 3 to 4 in. long, ripe in October. Seeds scarlet. Splendid evergreen tree (50 to 80 ft.) in the Southern States; half hardy, and reduced to a shrub (10 to 20 ft.) when cultivated in the Middle States.