ANONACEiE. 



Branches woody, smooth at bottom, slender and velvety at the 

 points. Leaves ovate, acute, 3 in. long, 12-14 lines broad, quite 

 smooth on the upper surface, downy beneath. Flowers unknown. 

 Peduncles of the fruit thick, woody, naked, 4 lines long. Torus of the 

 fruit capitate, 3 lines broad, marked by the scars where the fruit 

 dropped off. Carpels 12-18, pod-shaped, 1-2 inches long, knotted, 

 striated, quite smooth, with the taste of pepper. — Fruit pungent, 

 aromatic, and often substituted for other spices. It is the Piper 

 aethiopicum of commerce. 



62. H. aromatica A. de C. I. c. 32. — Waria zeylanica Aubl. 

 guian.'i. 605. t. 243. Unona aromatica Dunal. mon. 112. DC. 

 prodr. i. 91. — Woods of Guiana. 



A tree with a trunk 20 feet high and more. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 smooth, quite entire, subsessile. Flowers solitary or 2 together, 

 downy externally, smooth and violet internally. Fruit 12-20 to 

 each flower, knotted, cylindrical, brownish, with a deep furrow on one 

 side. — Fruit pungent, aromatic, employed by the Blacks in lieu of 

 spice. 



MONODORA. 



Sepals 3. Petals 6 in 2 rows; the outer lanceolate, the 

 inner ovate. Anthers numerous, subsessile. Ovary 1, ovate, 

 1 -celled, with the whole inside covered by ovules; crowned by 

 a sessile stigma. Fruit smooth, corticated, fleshy, roundish, 

 1-celled, many-seeded ; seeds nestling in pulp. 



63. M. myristica Dunal. monogr. 80. DC. prodr. i. 87. 

 Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3059. — Anona myristica Gcertn. carp. 

 ii. 194. t. 125. f. i. — Supposed to be a native of the west coast 

 of Africa, and thence carried by the negroes to Jamaica. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, or sometimes obovate, somewhat cordate, 

 entire, smooth, shining, bright pale green above, 4-5 inches long, 1-2 

 broad : petioles short, grooved above. Peduncles opposite to the 

 leaves, single-flowered, round, smooth, greenish white, pendulous, 4 to 

 7 inches long, generally single. Near the summit of the peduncles is a 

 bractea, reflexed when the flower is full blown, subcordate, acute, about 

 12-veined, green, curled and wavy at the margin, slightly variegated with 

 yellowish red. Flowers fragrant ; when beginning to expand, white, 

 marked with purplish-brown spots; afterwards yellow and the spots 

 brighter red. Calyx monophyllous, tube very short, limb deeply cleft into 

 3 unequal sepals, their margins crisped and waved; the sepal opposite 

 to the bract being shorter and narrower than the other two, which are 

 somewhat coriaceous and ovate-acute. Corolla monopetalous, gener- 

 ally twice as long as the calyx ; limb 6-parted in a double series ; 3 

 outer segments oblong-ovate, waved at the margin, of the same colour 

 as the sepals, the ground bright yellow, marked with rows of irregular 

 spots or interrupted stripes of reddish-brown ; 3 inner segments, from 

 i to | shorter than the outer, unguiculate, cordate, convex, veined, 

 yellowish-white externally, downy and even at the edges, which adhere 

 slightly, within concave, smooth, shining, pale yellow, variegated 

 with pale crimson spots. Stamens close, in 11-12 rows, on the 



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