Semina bina seu solitaria, subrotunda, baccata, filo pendentia ex sinu singulæ squamæ strobili.
Empalement. Cup three-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped, concave, the form of the petals, falling off.
Blossom. Nine petals, oblong, concave, obtuse, narrower at the base.
Chives. Threads numerous, short, tapered, flattened, inserted below the seed-buds into the common receptacle of the Pointals. Tips linear, fixed on side to the margin of the threads.
Pointals. Seed-buds numerous, oblong-egg-shaped, two-celled, covering a club-shaped receptacle. Shafts turned backward, twisted, very short. Summits grow out of the shafts longitudinally, hairy.
Seed-vessel. Cone egg-shaped covered with capsules which are flattened, roundish, scarcely tiled, crowded, pointed, one-celled, two-valved, sitting close to the receptacle, splitting from the outside and remaining.
Seeds by twos or solitary, roundish, like berries hanging by a thread from the inside of each scale of the cone.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Magnolia foliis elipticis, undulatis, acuminatis, subglaucis; floribus nutantibus, albis; petalis carnosis, obovatis, concavis.
Magnolia with eliptic, waved leaves, tapered to a point, rather glaucous; flowers hanging down and white; petals thick, inversely egg-shaped and concave.