68 IV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Unona. 



9. UNONA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Flowers often solitary, axillary 

 terminal or leaf-opposed. Sepals 3, valvate. Fetals 6, valvate or open 

 in aestivation, 2-seriate ; 3 inner sometimes absent. Torus flat or slightly 

 concave. Stamens cuneate ; anther-cells linear, extrorse, top of connective 

 subglobose or truncate. Ovaries numerous; style ovoid or oblong, recun^ed, 

 grooved ; ovules 2-8, 1-seriate (rarely sub-2- seriate). Jiipe carj>els many, 

 usually elongate and constricted between the seeds. Seeds few or many.— ; 

 Djstrib. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 25. 



Sect. I Desmos, //./. d: T. Petals 6. 



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1. 17. elegrans. Thwaites Fmtm, 398 } erect, leaves narrow oblong-lanceo- 

 late long-acuminate glabrous, glaucous beneath, petals glabrous (when 

 mature), carpels deeply constricted between the seeds. Beddome Ic. PL /«^ 

 Or. t. 50. 



Forests of Ilinidoon Pattoo, Ceylon, Thwaites. 



A much branched shrub or tree ; branches rugose, slender ; young golden-silky. Leaves , 

 3-54 hy i-li in. ; petiole 4 in. Peduncle \-^ in.^ slender ; bracts 1-2, mimite. SepaU 

 Jin., ovate, acute, glabrous. Outer petals l^-H in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 pubescent when very young only ; inner narrower, shorter, 



2. U. zeylanica, H. /. <{r T. Fl Ind. 132 : erect, leaves narrowly oblonff- 

 lanceolate acute or obtusely taper-pointed coriaceous glabrous, petals 

 glabrous, carpels constricted between the seeds. Thwaites Eiium, 9; 

 Beddonie Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 74. ^ > 



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Central province of Ceylon, ascending to 3000 ft., Walker^ &c. 



A small glabrous shrub, 3-6 ft., bark grey, nigged; young buds pubescent. Leaves 

 6-8 by 1 ^-2 in., base acute ; petiole 4 1". Flowers yellow-green, base red inside ; peduncles 

 1-3, 4 in. ; bracts minute, deciduous, basal. Sepals small, oblong-lanceolate, puberulous. 

 Petals 14 by I in,, coriaceous, lanceolate, inner shorter and narrower. Carpels stalked ; 

 Joints 1-4, ovuid. 



3. U. Dunalll, Wall. Cat. 6425 ; climbing, leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous shining above glaucous beneath, petals glabrous, 

 carpels constricted between the seeds. H. /. <{r T. Fl. Ind. 131 {excltM 



Concan j)lant). . \ 



Forests of Cuittagong at Sitakund, JT.jf. S T.; Penang, Wallich. ^ Jj 



A large glabrous climber, bark spotted white. Leaves 3-44 by 4-2 in., with scattere 

 hairs on the midrib beneath, base rounded cordate or acute ; petiole i in. Flowers pa'^ 

 yellow ; peduncle 2-flowered, pubescent ; bracts 2-3, basal, scaly. Sepals ovate, acute. 

 Petals 1 J in., lanceolate ; inner shorter, narrower. Ovules 4-6. Carpels of 1-3 ovoi 

 joints. — The Concan specimens referred here in Fl. Ind, are referable to U. discolor var 

 Uevi'gata, having leaf-opposed peduncles. 



X 4. U. pannosa, Balz. in Hook. Kew Journ. BoU iii. 207 : erect, leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate glabrous above pubescent beneath, petals tonieutosc, 

 carpels ovoid not constricted between the seeds, fl^./. & T. FL Ltd. 135 > 

 Beddome Ic. PL Ind. Or. t 52 ; Uvaria mollis. Wall. Cat. 6475. 





Forests of Concan, Dalzell; and Tkavancor, Wight, &c. 



A tree ; young parts puberulous. Leaves 2^-4 by 4-14 in., thin, pellucid-dottea, v*»«^ 

 rounded or acute. llowers brown-tomentose ; peauncles very short ; bracts 1 

 more, scaly. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals 14-2 in., lanceolate, inner narrower »^ 



shorter. *Oi?i/Ze« 2-4. Carpels | in., subsessile, obtuse at both ends, pubescent. Se^^ 



1-3, large, shining. 



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