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of the native species are widely spread. Their well-known 

 fruits, however, are not characteristic of the Family. In 

 all other Indian species, one hundred and twenty or one 

 hundred and thirty in number, the carpels are entirely 



Fig. loo. Custard-Apple {Ano7ia reticulata), flowering branch, with detached fruit 

 (much reduced). 



distinct, so that the fruit is apocarpous. In other respects 

 the Custard-Apple is typical. 



Observe the woody, hooked peduncles of the Sweet- 

 scented Artabotrys, common in gardens : the trimerous 

 symmetry of the flowers exceptional amongst Dicotyledons : 

 the valvate aestivation of the sepals and petals in most of 

 the Family : the variable number of carpels and of seeds in 

 each fruit-carpel in different genera; comparing the one- 

 seeded carpels of Guatto-ia longifoUa with the (usually) 

 several-seeded moniliform carpels of Utiona discolor, both 

 common in gardens. Note, also, the constantly ruminated 

 albumen of tlie seeds. 



