£«»««.] in. anokace^: (olivek). 37 



Fruit-carpels about 8-15, 1-seeded, ellipsoidal, about f in. long, 4-5 lines 

 broad, on stipes of £ in., more rarely 2-seeded, 1 in. in length. Flowers 

 not seen. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



13. MONODORA, Dunal ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 26. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, free or connate at the base. Petals 6, 

 valvate in two series, coherent at the base, 3 outer usually considerably larger 

 than the inner, spreading, ovate lanceolate or linear, usually with a much 

 crisped or undulated margin, 3 inner petals erect or connivent at least at 

 pst, ovate or rotundate, narrowed into a more or less distinct claw. Stamens 

 indefinite ; anthers sessile, short, oblong or quadrate, with an obtuse or trun- 

 cate connective but slightly or not at all thickened beyond the cells. Ovary 

 globose or ovoid, unilocular, with a sessile or subsessile peltate or obtuse 

 %ma sometimes minutely lobulate ; ovules indefinite, closely crowded upon 

 he walls of the ovary. Fruit globose or ovoid, 1-6 in. diam., smooth or 

 ongitudinally and obscurely ridged, closely packed with an indefinite num- 

 "& of seeds. 



-AP? M of 8 or 9 species (some of which are too imperfectly known to be described), 

 wn fined to Tropical Africa. 



ova MO</ora diff ers from all other genera of Anonacea in having a syncarpous, one-celled 



outer' Tf uumerous parietal ovules, as well as in the spreading, undulated and variegated 



Monof Wh ' ch are c "hereut at the base with the inner petals, as in Hetahbus. In 



oaora grandiflora the flowers are about 6 in. across and the globose fruit 6 in. diam. 



*zJJ and leaV( * entirely glabrous. Outer petals from lanceolate to 

 Pedun 1 T ally narrowed towards the extremity. 



dial 1 teate from the middle to near the summit imme- 



cnril if UUder the flower - Inner petals ovate ovate-cordate or 

 Pednnl k W,th 9hort pilose aur 'cle8, shortly clawed 1. M. Myrishca. 



Ian l acteate Dear the middle. Inner petals ovate or ovate- 

 ceolate, with lateral pilose teeth, gradually narrowed into a 

 p e ? er loD ? daw 2. M. tenvifoha. 



huifo ^, racteate Dear the middle. Inner petals with the lamina 



abovp" ! lon &> wit «out lateral pilose teeth ; abruptly narrowed 

 ftduncl i° a CUS[) 0r short acumen, below into a narrow claw . . 3. M. angolensis. 



concaT ? Cteate at or be l° w the middle. Inner petals orbicular, 



shnrt „*' obtuse > w ith a pilose margin, abruptly uarrowed into a 



£«rt5J cnnea f e claw • • • • • • • 4. M.brcvipes. 



'err 11!!' pedicels > and petioles pilose or pubescent. Outer petals 



^ narrow lmea r . ..... . 5. M. stenopeta.'a. 



tical vT' ^ yristica > Dun. Anon. 80. Leaves obovate- or oblong-ellip- 

 cordat e 2 f ' 01 , tly P ointe(1 or abruptly cuspidate, rounded obtuse or slightly 

 (or 8 0nj J e base > at length firmly membranous or subcoriaceous, £-1 it. 

 usually p 68 nearl y 2 ft.) long, 1-8 in. broad, on the flowering shoots 

 ■ Vo «n<r s ho? parntive,y snialL Pe<luilcles extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, on 

 in lon<r ° R S or on sll °rt lateral twigs from wood of a previous year, 2-12 

 •OQietjjL" ^ ,act leafy ovate or ovate-lanceolate near or above the middle or 

 ^nt s at . the 8ummit of the peduncle. Flowers 1^-6 in. across, fra- 

 Ofi| tc-lanoi acurnina te or tapering, undulate. Outer petals more or less 

 eoli 'te, tapering, much crisped and undulate, greenish-white or 



