O III. MAGNOLIACE^. 



or moi-e or less pubescent beneath ; petioles |-1 in. long. Flowers about 

 2-2| in. in diam., very fragrant, axillary, solitary, each enclosed in bud 

 by a greyish-yellow pubescent, spathaceous, coriaceous, deciduous bract. 

 Sepals and petals 15 or more, deep yellow or orange ; the outer oblong, 

 acute ; the inner linear ; pedicels | in. long, stout, wrinkled, marked 

 with an annular scar round the middle. Capsules | in., dark brown, 

 opening on the back by two valves ; valves woody, orbicular, covered with 

 white warty excrescences. Seeds 1-12, brown, polished, variously angled, 

 rounded on the back. Fi. B. I. v. 1, p. 42 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, p, 2 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S97) p. 120; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 5, p. 241. M. EheecUi, AVight, 111. v. 1, p. 14 ; &rah. Cat. p. 2.— 

 Flowers : Apr.-Sept. Vern". SoncMjiha ; Pivala-CMpha. 



Not wild in the Bombay Presidency. The tree is commonly planted near temples ; 

 the fragrant flowers are used in religious ceremonies and also by women for 

 ornamenting their hair. — Distrib. Java. 



Oeder IV. ANONACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing, frequently aromatic. Leaves alter- 

 nate, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. 

 Sepals 3 (rarely 2), distinct or united into a 3-lobed or 3-dentate calyx, 

 usually valvate. Petals usually thick and fleshy, generally 6, biseriate, 

 hypogynous, valvate or slightly imbricate, the inner sometimes absent. 

 Stameus usually many, in many series, on a thick torus ; filaments short 

 or ; anthers adnate, 2-celled, cells extrorse or sublateral, dehiscing by 

 a longitudinal slit ; connective usually produced into an oblong, dilated 

 or truncate head. Ovaries 1 or more, apocarpous, very rarely {Aaonci) 

 syncarpous, with distinct or agglutinated stigmas ; ovules 1 or more ; 

 styles short or almost 0. Fruit of one or more sessile or stalked, 1- 

 or many-seeded, usually indehiscent carpels. Seeds arillate or naked ; 

 albumen copious, ruminate ; embryo minute ; cotyledons divaricating. — 

 DiSTEiB. Chiefly in the tropics of the Old World ; genera 40 ; 

 species 400. 



Anther-cells concealed by the ovei'lapping connective. 



Petals 2-seriate, one or both series imbricate in bud 1. Uvauia. 



Petals valvate. 



Petals subcqual. 



Petals conniving at the concave base 2. Aktabotuys. 



Petals flat, sjireading from the base. 



Ovules 2 or more, 1 -seriate on the ventral 



suture 3. Unona. 



Ovules 1-2, basal or sub-basal 4. Polyaltiiia. 



Inner petals ^ shorter than the outer, clawed 5. Goniotiialamus. 



Inner petals minute, or G. Anoxa. 



Anther-cells not concealed by the overlapping connective. 

 Petals valvate, tlie inner longest. 



Ovules 1-2; inner jictals not saccate 7. MHiicsA. 



Ovules G or more ; inner petals saccate at the base . 8. SAccorKTALUM. 



Petals valvate, the inner shortest '•. Ouoi'hea. 



Petals imbricate, subequal 10. Bocagea. 



1. UVARIA, Liiiu. 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs, stellately pubescent or tomentose. 

 Inflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely axillary ; flowers herma- 



