8 ANONACEH (Sond.) [ Uvaria. 
pulpy fruit, mostly indehiscent. Seeds with copious, ruminated al- 
bumen, and a minute basal embryo 
Trees, or shrubs ; the latter erect, or climbing, or trailing ; leaves alternate, sim- 
ple, entire, without stipules ; flowers terminal or axillary, solitary, or few together, 
green or brown ; 
An Order consisting almost exclusively of Tropical trees and shrubs, remarkable 
for a strong aromatic taste and smell; and many of them yielding edible fruits. 
It is easily recognised by the invariable ternary composition of the floral envelopes ; 
the densely packed and very short stamens, the numerous ovaries, and the ruminated 
albumen: and by the no less constant characters of the foliage. An admirable 
analysis is given by Hooker and Thomson in Flora Indica, p. 86, where these 
authors estimate the number of species at about 600 ; of which about 250 may be 
Eastern, 250 American, and 100 from Tropical and sub-Tropical Africa, The most 
- Northern species is Asimina pygmea, found on the South coast of Lake Erie ; and 
the most southern appears to be the curious Eupomatia lawina, found in N. 8. 
Wales (Lat. 35° S.) Only two species have yet been detected in extra tropical 
S. Africa, 
Among the cultivated fruits of the Order, the Custard apples of the East and 
West Indies and the cherimoyer of Peru are the most remarkable ; the latter is one 
of the most delicious of subtropical fruits. It would probably succeed well at the 
- Cape in sheltered places with a warm exposure, as it ripens freely in Mr. MacLeay’s 
garden, at Sydney, N.S. Wales. 
.TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
» I. Uvaria.—Petalsimbricate. Ovaries multiovulate. Fruits pulpy or dry, mostly 
many seeded. 
Il. Guatteria.—Petals valvate. Ovaries uniovulate. Fruits dry, one seeded. 
I. UVARIA, L. Endl. 
Sepals 3, valvate in estivation, often connate at base. Petals 6, in 
two rows, equal or unequal, imbricated in zstivation, often cohering at 
base. -Stamens indefinite, in many rows, compressed, oblong or dineat- 
oblong, the anther-cells linear, the connective produced into an oblong, 
expanded or truncate and short process, Zorus scarcely elevated, 
truncate, pubescent, often densely tomentose between the ovaries. 
Ovaries indefinite, straight, linear-oblong, angular, furrowed on the 
inner side, crowned with a continuous, truncate style, with involute 
margins, viscid on the stigma ; ovules indefinite, in two rows. Carpels 
many seeded, sometimes, by abortion, few, or one seeded. Hook. & 
Thoms. Fl. Ind.p.95. Endl. Gen. No. 4717. : : 
Climbi pa Maeda with stellate pubescence. Flowers mostly opposite 
the leaves, rarel: . A large genus, confined to the tropical and subtropical 
regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. The name is an alteration of Uva, a cluster of 
1. U. caffra (E. Mey. in Herb. Drege) ; young twigs, petioles and 
peduncles ower with edlwaaitee, Spee cn ele ; branches 
and branchlets spreading ; leaves on short petioles ovate-oblong or 
oblong, acute at each end, subcoriaceous, with netted veins ; peduncles 
opposite the leaves, solitary, icels few, recurved ; berries oval or 
roundish, 2-3 seeded ; seeds plano-convex. _ 3 Bier 
Has. In woods, near Port Natal. April. Drege. (Herb, Sond.) 
Branches and twigs round. Tense uae Renae ek a inches long, © 
