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[Named after Pietro Antonio Michel i, a Florentine botanist, who died in 1757.) Bot.: A genus of Magnoliaceae, tribe Magnoliem. It is akin to Magnolia, but has axillary flowers, le er carpels, and more numerous ovules. Michel ia champaca or Tsjampac is the Champaca (q. v.). All parts of it are strongly stimulant. The bitter aromatic bark has been used in low intermittent fevers. It is a good substitute for guaiacum. The bark of M. montana has properties like cascarilla bark, but is le bitter. That of M. gracilis has a strong smell of camphor. M. doltsopa, a tree growing in Nepaul, has fragrant wood much used in that country for building.