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of this family, and go far to prove, that among the numerous Indian species belonging to it, we 
have good reason to expect, some, when properly investigated, will be found not less valuable, 
than the better known American and African ones. 
Remarxs on tue Genera, &c. Of this order Dr. Roxburgh, in his Flora Indica, gives 
characters of 27 species, classed under three genera, namely, nona, Uraria, an nona ; 
Guatteria, was afterwards added to the catalogue, of Indian genera, by referring several of 
of the justice of this position, it is only necessary to state, that a large proportion of the species 
of the lattergenus, have, since the publication of DeCandolle’s systema, been removed to the 
former. The propriety therefore, nay, the necessity, of uniting the species of both, and of two 
American genera, having similar ovaries and fruit, (Asimia and Porcilia) into one genus, as 
ted by M. Richard, in some remarks on the subject in the Flore Senegambie, 
mature fruit, without reference to the ovary, may be simulated by species of Uvaria, or Unona, 
through the abortion of all the ovules but one, a modification of which my collection presents 
specimens, 
Swayed by these facts, M. Richard proposes an amended character for Uvaria, in which 
the one-celled, many ovuled Ovaries, with the ovules attached along the inner angle, forms the 
essential distinction ; a modification which admits of the association of all the species now re- 
Indian, division of the genus. All the [Indian ones I have yet examined have a single, erect, 
ovule, attached to the bottom of the ovary. Whether or not the American species referred to 
this genus, possess this structure, I am unable to say, but in the following Indian ones, I have 
* Loudon’s Encyclopedia of Plants, Art. Sylopia. 
