22 VI. ANONACE^. 



an appendage. Pistils i, or usually more, apocarpous ; style very 

 short or o ; ovules one or more. Fruit of i, usually many, sessile 

 or stalked carpels i- or many-seeded, usually baccate, very rarely 

 dehiscent {Anaxagorea, Xylopia). Seed large more or less flattened, 

 testa crustaceous, usually shining. Albumen dense, ruminate, 

 with several series of horizontal plates, embryo small. Tropics, 

 chiefly of the Old World; genera 45, species 500 to 600, 

 abundant in the lowland forests of the Malay region, becoming 

 very scarce about 2000 ft. altitude. Commonly known by the 

 Malays as Pisang-Pisang or variants of this (lit. bananas), on 

 account of the bunch of carpels suggesting bananas. The uses of 

 the plants of this order indigenous here are very limited. They 

 have few medicinal properties, and the timber is usually too small 

 to be of value, the only really big tree being Mezzettia leptopoda. 

 Drepananthus, Xylopia, some Polyalthias, etc., are used in house- 

 building, for rafters or poles. Cultivated here for their fruits are 

 the Anonas of South America: A. squamosa, Nona Srikaya; A. 

 muricata, Durian B'landa; Sri Kaya Blanda; Nona blanda; A. 

 reticulata, Nona Kapri, and, as a roadside or village tree for its 

 flowers, Canangium odoratum, the Kenanga, probably native of the 

 Philippine Islands. Its soft timber is also used for tom-toms. 

 Artabotrys odoratissimus, a climber cultivated for its fragrant 

 flowers, is also to be found in Chinese gardens. The AnonacecB of 

 the peninsula were described in the " Materials " for a Flora of the 

 Malay Peninsula, by Sir George King, in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, Ixi. (2), in 1892, and in the Annals of the 

 Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, iv., quoted Journ. As. Soc. Beng. and 

 Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc, respectively. 



i. UvARi.^. Petals 2 in 2 rows, one or both rows imbricate in bud ; 

 stamens many, anther-cells concealed by a flat appendage ; ovaries indefinite. 

 Sepals imbricate ; trees or shrubs. 



Flowers small globular, usually unisexual on 

 the older branches or trunk; ovules 6, 

 indefinite. 



Ovules many; torus conic . . . i. Stelechocarpu.s 



Ovules 6 to 8; torus flat . , . .2. Sager^a 



Flowers large, bisexual . . . • 3- Griffithia 



Sepals valvate ; climbers. 



Flowers small, on trunk or branches ; ovules 



6 to 8. . . . . . •4- Cyathostemma 



Flowers usually large, expanding flat on 

 branches. 

 Ovules many . . . . . .5. Uvaria 



Ovules I to 2 ; flowers rather small . . 6. Uvariella 



Flowers medium, petals not expanding ; ovules 



I to 2 . . . . . . .7. Ellipeia 



ii. Unone^. Petals valvate in bud flat, or base only concave, inner 

 petals similar to outer ; stamens many, with overlapping appendages ; ovaries 

 indefinite, rarely few. 



