62 IV. ANONACE-^. (Hook. f. & ThoiHS.) [Unana. 



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5-9 by 2-4 in., usually broadest above the middle, red-bro^vn beneath; petiole jV^^- 

 blowers pendulous; peduncles 1-2 in., slender, top subclavate ; bracts 1 or raore, mi- 

 nute, baeal. Petals appressed-pubescent, young silty, keeled internally. Ovules 6-7. 

 Carpels monilifonn, joints oblong. 

 Var. 1. Blumei; branches glabrous, leaves pale below glabrous or nearly so. — U. 



Alphonsii, Wall. Cat 6426. 



VAK. 2. Wallichii; branches brown-tomentose, leaves glaucous and purple-tinged 



he\ovr,— Wall Cat. 6241. ^ 



10. POZ.-rAZ.TBZA, Blume. 



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Trees or shrubs ; habit of Unona. Sepals 3, valvate or subimbricate. 

 Petals 6, 2-seriate, ovate or elongated, flat or the inner vaulted. Torus con- 

 vex. Stame7is cuneate; anther-cells extrorse, remote. Ovaries indefinite; 

 style usually oblong ; ovules 1-2, basal and erect, or subbasal and ascending. 

 £ipe carpels l-seeded, berried. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and (1 sp.) Australia ; 

 species about 30.— deduced to Unona by Baillon (Hist, des Plantes, 212) 

 probably with good reason. - 



Sect. I. Monoon, Miquel. -Ffoi^»(?r5 hermaphrodite. Petals ^dX. Ovuh 

 solitary, basal, erect. 



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loji^f ollB,^ Benth. & H. f. Gen. PI i. 25- branches glabrou!* 



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umbelled, petals |-1 in. long. Guattena longifolia, Wall, Cat, 6442 ; W, d' 



Uvaria longifolia, Lam, ; Roxh. Fl. Ind, n, 664. 



Tawjore, Wight; drier parts of Ceylon. — Cultivated thronghout the hotter parts 

 of India. 



A lofty tree; branches slender. Leaves 5-8 by 1-2 in., membranons, base acnte 

 rarely rounded, shining above, pellucid-dotted; petiole ^-i in. Flowers numerous, 

 dense, jellow-green ; peduncles J in. or less, hoary; pedicels 1-2 in., deni^ely raceniop^i 

 slender; bracts minute, linear, basal. Petals narrow-linear. Carpels J in., ovoid| 

 obtuse at both ends ; stalk 4 in., stout, glabrous. ■ 



2. P. blfaria, -Bm/^.. d^ U.f. I.e.; young branches softly pubescent, 

 leaves lanceolate acuminate glabrous above downy beneath, flowers solitary. 



Pegu, Wallxch, 



6447 : HJ. 



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A tree. Leaves 5 by IJ in., base acute, pellucid-dotted ; petiole J in. Petals linear- 

 lanceolate. Carpels ovoid, long-stalked. — Wallich's solitary specimen is in Herb. Linn. 

 Soc. and is flowerlees. A. De Caudolle depcribes it as differing from P. cerasoides only 

 in the linear petals. W« subpect it to be a mixture of the flower oi'P. simiarum vi^f^ 

 the foliage of P. cerasoides. 



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3. P. coflTeoldeB, Be^xth. & H.f. I.e.; branches glabrous, leaves lanceo- 

 late or oblong-lanceolate taper-pointed undulate glabrous, flowers solitary, 

 petals 1-Uin. Beddome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 63. Guatteria coffeoides, 

 Thwaites Fnum. 10 ; H. /. it T. Fl. Ind. Ul. 



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. 'Forests of the Wynaad, Beddome ; and Ceylon, ThwaHes, •. 



v^ A tree; branches spreading. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2]^ in., membranous, pellncid-dotted; 



Setiolei in. Flowers greenish-yellow, rarely on woody tubercles of the trunk; P^' 

 uncles 4-1 4 in., downy, articulate at the hd^sQ. Sepals suborbicular, Pe/afe broadly 



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