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86 IV. ANONACE^'. (Hook, f. & Thorns.) 



concave; inner narrovrer, 3-gonous. Stamens many, inner imperfect; anther-cells 

 Beptate; tip of connective rounded. Ovaries sunk in the torus, pilose; style short; 

 ovules many. 





X. elllDtica. Mainaav mss. 



obtuse membranous glabrous, tip rounded, nerves faint reticulate, flowers 

 small solitary erect pubescent, sepals subacute united to the middle, ovaries 



Malacca, Mawgay. - ^ 



A lofty tree; trunk thick; branches glabrous, almost hlack ; branchlets pahescent. 

 Leaves \\-2 by \\-\\ in., base obtuse or acute, pale on both surfaces^ browner beneath; 

 petiole \ in., pubenilous. Flowers 4-| in., slender ; peduncle half as long or shorter, and 

 calyx rutsty-pubescent ; bracts median, minute. Petals pale brown-tomentose ; outer 

 linear subulate, from a rather broad base, concave ; inner trigonous, base excavated. 

 Stamens minute. Ovaries sunk in the deeply urceoiate torus, hidden amongst long 

 white hairs ; 'ovules 4-6. 



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Trees or shrubs. Flowers 1-2-sexual, green or red, axillary or extra- 

 axillary, solitary fascicled or cymose. ' Sepals 3, small, valvate. ^ PetaU 6, 

 valvate in 2 series; outer smaller, like the sepals; inner cohering when 

 young by the margins, at length free. Tories elongated, cylindric. Stameyis 

 definite or indefinite; anthers subdidymous ; cells contiguous, ovoid, ex- 

 trorse; connective hardly apiculate. Ovaries indefinite, linear-obloug; 

 style oblong or very short -ovules 1-2, rarely 3-4. Jiij^e carjyels globose or 

 oblong, 1-many-seeded. — D^^trib. Species 7 : all Indian. '^■■- 



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1. M. macrocarpa, ZT. /. <lc T. Fl Ind. 150; leaves lanceolate or 

 narrow-oblong long-acuminate glabrous shining above, flowers bisexual J 

 solitary or in leafy cvmes, sepals and outer petals large ovate \ in., carpel? 

 glabrous long-stalkea - 



Sikkim-Himalaya; Khasia hills, Simons, 



A small tree; branches glabrous. Xeavea 4-9 by 1^-24 in., thin, coriaceous, pale 



beneath ; petiole xV-i i^- Flowers subterminal or leat-opposed; peduncle 2-3 in., clavate 

 upwards. Outer petals ovate, glabrous, granulate outside, edges and inside apprcssed- 

 pubescent; inner ^ in., lengthening much after expansion, glabrous, ciliate. Ovaries 

 oblong, silky; htyle oblong, glabrous; ovules 1-2. Cartels 1 in., dark-purple, fleshy i 

 stalk as long, 1 -seeded, or 2-6eeded and twice as broad. — Differs from its congeners in 

 the large sepals and outer petals ; inner petals very small in bud. 



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ovate-cordate obtuse or lanceolate and acute or acuminate glabrous or pubes 

 cent beneatb, flowers 2-8exual axillary solitary, inner petals oblong subacute 

 carpels pisiform subsessile. IT. <C? A. Frodr. 10 ; Wall. Cat 6433; //./ ^ 

 7\ FL hid. 148 ; Beddiyrne Ic. PI Ind, Or.f. 85. M. montana, Gardner eJ 

 FL Ind. I.e. ; Thwaites Enum. 4. Beddome Lc. t 84. 





Malabak, Maisob, and Cetlon, in the Central Province, Gardner. 



A much branched very variable shrub; branches strigose," tomentose or glabratc. 

 Leaves 1-2^ by 3-1^ in., base J^nerally obliquei coriaceous ; petiole obsolete. 

 Flowers greenish, purple near the base ; pedicel ^-J in , slender ; bracteoles several 

 basal.^ Outer petals equalling or 2-3 times exceeding the oblong subacute inner. 



Ovaries l-2-ovule(]. 



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Var. 1. tomentosa; branchlets and leaves beneath tpmentose,. carpels pubescent. 



Var. 2, strlgose; branchlets and leaves beneath stngose, carpels glabrous. «:^'' 

 Var. 3, montana; branchlets and much smaller leaves glabrous. "' *' *.v v"^ 



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