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IV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



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tomentosai Mainqay mss. 



hirsute, leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate puberulous 

 above, base cordate, lowers small extraraxillary softly villous, outer petals 

 larger than the inner. ^ 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree ; Iranches blact, rugose. Leaves 3-5 by 1 J-2J in., rather thin, opaque, dirty 

 green above, pale and greenish beneath under the soft brown hairs ; petiole g ^^' 

 Flowers \ in. diam., subsessile, S<pals broad-ovate, connate, hardly larger than the 

 sepals. Outer petals suhorbicular, very thick, glabrous within; inner smaller, very 

 concave, obovate, connivent. Tor%is flat. Stamens about 25. Ovaries 1-9^ g^^ 

 hrous; style equalling the ovary; ovules 2 superposed. Hipef carpels ^-f "*• dian^-i 

 globose, hairy, at length glabrous, smooth, blood red, 2-seeded ; stalk 4 in., stout, ^ 



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Climbing shrubs. Leaves parallel-nerved, nervules transverse, not form- 

 . ing intra-marginal loops. Flowers leaf-opposed or extra-axillary, 

 valvate, connate below. Petals 6, valvate in 2 rows, outer large, long, flat 

 or triquetrous and narrow, leathery, more or less spreading or connivent; 

 inner much smaller, ovate-lanceolate or oblong (long and narrow in 0. deno- 

 petala and glanca)^ conniving over the stamens and ovaries. Stamens many, 

 linear-oblong or cuneate, truncate ; anther-cells dorsal, remote (small and 

 ovoid in 0, glauca). Ovaries oblong, strigose; style oblong or clavate, re- 

 curved; ovules 1-2, subbasal, ascending. Eipe carpels 1 -seeded, stalked.- 

 DiSTKiB. About 1 8 species, Asiatic and African. '\..^ 



1. O. latifoUa, ff.f & T. Fl Ind. 145 ; leaves ovate or obovate obtuse, 

 base cordate glabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, peduncles 1-brac- 

 teate in the middle, carpels long-stalked pubescent. - - . 



Penang, Phillips; Malacca, Maingay, 



A large woody climber, branches rusty-tomentose. Leaves 6-12 by 4-7 in., coriaceonfl, 

 shining above, tomentose on the nerves and midrib beneath ; petiole \ in. Flowers 

 supra-axillary; pedicel J-J in., rusty tomentose ; bracts ovate or oblong. Sepals oxw 

 cular, connate into a 3-lobed cup. Outer petals 1-1 ^ in., tomentose, ovate -lanceolate, 

 tips triquetrous; inner 4 in., broad-ovate, shortly clawed. Carpels red-purple, golden- 

 pubescent. iZipe car/;eZ^ red-purple. ' 



2. O. Maclellandll, //, /. & T. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate acute, base 

 rounded or subcordate, above glabrous except the midrib, beneath gla^^^^: 

 and appressed pubescent, peduncle ebracteate. ' 



RAxaooN, Madelland, &c. 



A large (climbing?) shrub, young branches appressed-tomentose, old glabrate. Leaves 



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Flowers supra 



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oblong, counivent, flat, with a slight oval basal concavity. Ovaries oblong, densely 

 strigose ; style oblong, 



3- O. affinls, //./ d: T. ; branchlets densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 

 oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse or subacute, base cordate, above opaque 

 and puberulous, beneath glaucous and rusty-pubescent, peduncle bracteate 

 in the middle, sepals foliaceous, carpels elliptic pubescent shortly-stalked. 



''''^ranches black. Leaves 5-9 by 2-3 J in., thin ; nerves rusty pubescent above, beneath 

 distinct spreading; petiole ^in. Flowtrs supra axillary, nodding, solitary, 1 in. long > 



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