Xylopia:\ AuonacecB. 27 



6. ANAXAGOREA, St. Hil. 



A shrub ; fl. axillary or extra-axillary or from old wood ; 

 sep. imbricate in bud ; pet, biseriate, valvate, inner rather 

 smaller ; carp. 1-4, ovules about 3 ; ripe carp. 1-4, dry, woody, 

 follicular, dehiscent, 1-2-seeded. — Sp. about 6; the following 

 only in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. luzonensis, Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 27 (1854). 



A. seylanka., Hk. and Th. Fl. Ind. 144 ; Thw. Enum. 10. C. P. 3883. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 68. Bedd. Ic. t. 46 (bad). 



A small erect shrub with smooth reddish-grey bark, young 

 shoots glabrous ; 1. 4-8 in., oval, suddenly and bluntly cau- 

 date-acuminate, acute at base, glabrous and shining, paler 

 with rather conspicuous venation beneath, petiole §-^ in. ; 

 fl. axillary or leaf-opposed, 3 or 4 together, or from knots on 

 the old branches and trunk very much more numerous, ped. 

 very short, stout, curved, bracts small, obtuse, sheathing ; sep. 

 suborbicular, imbricate in bud, very finely ciliate ; pet. rather 

 thick, concave, f in., acute, outer row ovate, inner row smaller, 

 spathulate-oblong, distant at base ; stam. loosely arranged, 

 anthers linear, connective scarcely prolonged ; ov. 1-4, ovules 

 about 3, styles subulate, curved ; fruit-carp. 1-4, 1 in. long, 

 elongate-pyriform, oblique, apiculate, glabrous, woody, de- 

 hiscent from above downwards ; seeds i or 2, |^ in. long, com- 

 pressed-pyriform, black, shining. 



Lower montane zone ; rare. Yattiantota ; Maskeliya ; Kitulgala. 

 Fl. March-July, December ; pure white. 



Also in Burma, the Andaman Islands, Malacca, and the Philippines, 

 but not in Peninsular India. 



The above description of the flower from living specimens differs a 

 good deal from that in Fl. B. Ind. 



7. XVZ.OPZA, L. 



Trees ; sep. more or less connate into a calyx ; pet. bi- 

 seriate, valvate, narrow, outer flat, somewhat hollowed at 

 base, inner rather shorter, trigonous, connivent at concave 

 bases ; carp. 1-5, usually sunk in the hollowed torus, ovules 

 2-10; ripe carp. 1-5, ovoid, several-seeded. — Sp. 30-40; 14 in 

 Fl. B. Ind., but none occur in the Indian Peninsula. 



Our species are all endemic. 

 Flower-buds, narrow, acute. 



Sep. connate half-way up i. X. PARVI FOLIA. 



Sep. free almost to the base . . . . 2. X. nigricans. 



Flower-buds broad-ovoid, blunt . . . . 3. X. Championii. 



