18 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
ascertained it to exist. Guatteria longifolia, Korinti, cerasoides, and suberosa. By this wae 
tion to the character, all Anonacee,with single seeded carpels, but having more than or e, oF 
even with one ovule pendulous, or attached to the inner angle, and placed transversely ——e 
the cell of the ovary, will be excluded. In combination with this structure of the ovary, 
have in all the above instances, found the petals nearly equal, and the connectivum of the sta- 
mens truncated, that is, prolonged beyond the anthers, and ending in a broad shield-like apex. 
our other genera have more recently been added, to the peninsular flora. rtobotris, 
Brown, Miliusa, Alph. DeCandolle, Lobocarpus, Wight and Arnott, and Orophea, Blume. 
The first of these is well known: the second is described, and figured, by the younger DeCan- 
dolle, in a memoir in the Geneva, Natural History Society’s, Memoirs, but apparently from very 
imperfect specimens, since his character differs in some essential points, from numerous speci- 
which his was procured, namely, Courtallum. DeCandolle assigns to his, 3 sepals, and 3 petals, 
united half their length,and forming a bell-shaped corolla, at the base, that is two series of 
the base, into a distinct claw or unquis. The stamens are in a double ? series about 15, 
have the appearance of being 4-celled, from a depression along the line of dehiscence. i 
with 2 pendulous ovules, and furnished with a large style. 
too interesting to be 
In the form of the corolla and torus. 
perf : 
which I possess two species, both from Ceylon, distinguishe 
: ged in a single row, round the central is, with th 
- Solitary compressed seeds, pendulous from th : ; axis, with the 
e apex. The fruit 
mature, but is sufficiently advanced to enable me to ascertain 
therefore be thus characterized. . 
Patonia, R. W. carpel, ge ee shrubs: leaves oblong, lancivlate, 
: acumin iS: i i 
oo ; ae at the base, persistent, enlarging several together, ja 
het hiy secs ger na dou tinct. branch: corolla slender; petals tapering towards the 
| us, distinct, truncated at the apex. pn, ponescent fruit, concealed within the tube of 
cay 1 } the great y enlarged, 3-lobed calyx. 
Sonn ee pais aes _ Solitary, (9) — This genus is dedicated to Mise Paton, now Mrs. 
he thingy ed apex. Style longish, subulate, Colonel Walker. The name Watkeria being pre-occu- 
enloed within the enlarged tablay enya, ‘Seege RGtPevens me dedicating it to my highly focemed 
os X. and amiable frien h i i 
solitary, compressed, pendulous from the apex of the known to Science, as the diligent acd ates 
