MAGNOLIA with leaves persistent, lance-shaped, and blunt, with cartilaginous margins of a shining green on the upper surface, and rusty-coloured beneath. Blossoms large, thick, white, and very sweet-scented. Native of Florida and South Carolina. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The chives and pointals. 2. A chive. 3. The same shown from the outer side. This odoriferous plant is figured by Catesby in his Caroliniensis, who describes it as a stately tree eighty feet high; that it perfumes the woods with its fragrance; that its fruit is of a glittering red, not falling immediately to the ground, but hanging pendulous by small white threads about two inches long, in which state it must still be a beautiful object. It very rarely, if ever, perfects its seed in this country. Independent of its fine large sweet-scented flowers, it is a handsome evergreen. There are several variations of it in foliage. It succeeds well, trained up against a south wall. From a plant so situated, on the premises of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, our figure was delineated. [Illustration] PLATE DXIX. COMMERSONIA ECHINATA. _Bristly-fruited Commersonia._ CLASS V. ORDER V. _PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA._ Five Chives. Five Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX monophyllus, 5-partitus. COROLLA. Petala 5, linearia, basi lobata, apice inflexa. Nectarium 5-partitum. STAMINA. Filamenta 5, brevissima, ad basin petalorum. Antheræ sub-rotundæ, parvæ. GERMEN globosum, villosum. Styli 5, breves, approximates. Stigma globosum. CAPSULA dura, setacea: setis longis, pilosis, 5-locularibus: loculamentis dispermis. SEMINA ovata. EMPALEMENT one-leafed, 5-parted. BLOSSOM. Petals 5, linear, lobed at the base, and turned inward at the point. Nectarium 5-parted. CHIVES. Threads 5, very short, at the base of the petals. Tips nearly round, and small. SEED-BUD globular and villose. Shafts 5, short, and approximating. Summit headed. CAPSULE hard and bristly. Bristles long and hairy, 5-locular; the loculaments 2-seeded. SEEDS ovate. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The petals and honey-cups. 3. A petal and chives, magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointals. 5. The capsule spread open. 6. One of the loculaments divested of the bristles. 7. The same split open, one seed detached.