Artabolrys.] in. anonace^; (oliver). 29 



tical, obtuse or very shortly and obtusely pointed ; base obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, glabrous, at first with scattered silky hairs; lJ-3£ in. long, |-2 in. 

 broad. Petiole 1-4 lines. Flowers about f in. diam., usually on hooked 

 and forked peduncles, often opposed to short, lateral branchlets ; sometimes 

 the peduncles are very short and scarcely or not at all hooked. Sepals 

 spreading, 4-6 lines long, tomentose externally. Petals connivent, plane, 

 incurved at the base, somewhat acute, the 3 inner slightly shorter, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; anthers quadrate-oblong ; connective thickened, truncate, scarcely 

 produced beyond the cells. Carpels numerous, inserted on a pilose torus, 

 .uit-carpels glabrous, ellipsoidal or obovoid, |-£ in. long, on stipes of 3-5 

 lines; 2- or 1-seeded. 



Wozamb. Distr. Tete, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! 

 "M fruit is said to be pleasant eating. 



10. XYLOPIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 28. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals more or less connate, rarely nearly free, 

 valvate in aestivation. Petals 6 (3 in X ? polycarpa), valvate in aestivation 

 ■ two series, 3 outer linear, linear-subulate, oblong or rarely ovate, thick, 

 usually scarcely expanding or connivent, 3 inner rather or much shorter, 

 similar in form and triquetrous above, or ovate-lanceolate and keeled and 

 acute. Stamens indefinite, the innermost sometimes coherent by their fila- 

 ments into a sheath surrounding the ovaries or inserted upon a sheathing, de- 

 ciduous, annular extension of the torus, usually narrow-liuear ; anther-cells 

 frequently multilocellate, connective truncate dilated or more or less subpel- 

 tate. Torus nearly plane or but slightly convex, plane or concave in the 

 Jjw*. Carpels few or numerous. Ovaries usually strigose-hairy. Styles 

 el °ngate, exserted, forming a connivent cone; ovules usually 2-10. Fruit- 

 carpels oblong or narrow-linear, continuous or torulose.— Habzelia, Hook. f. 

 5 inom s. Fl. Ind. i. 123, as well as synonyms quoted in the ' Genera 

 ™aru m .'__ Trees or shrubs. Leaves more or less coriaceous. Flowers 

 xulary, i n fascicles or solitary, usually on short pedicels. 



ar e V athe n lar S e S enU9 > represented in Asia and America as well as in Africa. The species 

 invlT ally easilv recognized by their axillarv flowers and narrow thick petals the carpels 

 thTrT " POn the P Iane or concave centre of the torus and sometimes sheathed by an an- 

 tten, r g rim ' ar,d bv the '° n g connivent styles projecting considerably beyond the sta- 

 bnt i» *t ' a f ncana , with globose buds and ovate outer petals, is exceptional in the genus, 

 i«wL • P articnlars ^ agrees well with Xyfopia, and it is very closely allied to X. ru- 

 *. in which the flowers are long and narrow. 



u^ S ^ als ° r cal y x - lo hes ovate or broadly ovate-triangular, 

 Oder 3 li ne8 i ongj or more ,j ee p]y con nate, forming a cupulate, 

 broadly-toothed calyx. 



ves distinctly narrowed into the petiole, very coriaceous, reddish, 

 least when dry. Inner petals ovate-lanceolate (navicular), 

 acute. l 



Bids nearly globose. Outer petals broadly ovate 1. X africana. 



j»n« narrow. Outer petals linear-lanceolate 2. X rubetcens. 



I ? 0t J mrrowed into the petiole (or scarcely in X. asthiopica 

 i . Thomsoni). Inner petals narrow-linear or linear- 

 sobulate. 



ers 8es sile or very shortly pedicelled. 



