ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 15 
ANONACE. 
This large, and truly tropical, order, is composed entirely of trees or shrubs, (no herba- 
ceous member has as yet been found appertaining to it) with alternate, simple, entire, ex-sti- 
he calyx is generally deeply three parted ; or rather perhaps, consists of three distinct sepals, 
partly united at the base; where they are very broad. The corolla consists of six petals, in a 
double series, three and three, often unequal; sometimes the exterior, sometimes the interior 
pepper, ( Habzelia Ethiopica) and some others, which, partly on that account, the younger 
DeCandolle has united to form the genus Habzelia, a genus common to both Africa, and Ame- 
rica, but not yet found in Asia. 
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as little else than an apetalous form of 4nonacee. Thus constituted, it is difficult to give an 
abridged character of the order, but as, generally speaking, the Indian species present the normal 
forms, their character may be summed up in the following terms, 
Essentiat Cuaracter. Polypetalous, polyandrous, ovaries wholly superior: carpels more 
or less distinct: very rarely solitary: seeds, usually without an aril, albumen aromatic, rumi- 
— Leaves alternate, ex-stipulate. In one Indian genus ( Hyalostemma ) the flowers are 
iecious. 
Grocraparcat Distrisution. This, as already remarked, is strictly speaking, a tropical 
order, confined to Asia, Africa, and America, none having as yet been found in Europe, or Austra- 
