10 IT. ANOJfACE.^. 



Sepals 3, valvate, cohering at the base. Petals 6, biseriate, valvate, 

 concave at the base, constricted around the organs, again spreading. 

 Stamens indefinite, oblong or cuueate ; connective truncate or pro- 

 duced ; anther-cells dorsal. Torus flat or convex. Ovaries many or 

 few; ovules 2, erect, collateral; style oblong or columnar. Bipe carpels 

 berried. — Distrib. Tropical Africa, China, Malaya ; species about 30. 



1. Artabotrys odoratissimus, R. Br. in Bot. Beg. (1820) t. 423. 

 A shrub, often scaudent. Leaves up to 7 by 1 k-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, glabrous, shining, acute at the base ; petioles ^-g in. 

 long. Flowers yellow, solitary or in pairs, l^-lg in. long; pedicels 

 I in. long. Sepals ^ in. long, connate below, ovate, acute, tips reflesed. 

 Petals lanceolate above the saccate base, clothed with oppressed silky 

 hairs. Eipe carpels 6-10, obovoid, glabrous, f-l^ in. long, by | in. in 

 diam., yellow. Seeds oblong, a little flattened, deeply grooved on one 

 side, more than i in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 54; Grab. Cat. p. 4; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 2 (odoratissima) ; King, in Ann. Boy. Bot. Gard. 

 Calcutta, V. 4, part 1 (1893) p. 44, and part 2, t. 55 ; Trim. FI. Ct-yl. v. 

 1, p. 21 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 3; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 120; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 322. Yern. Hirva- 

 cluipha ; Kdla-chdpha. 



Not iudigenoiis to the Bombay Presidency, but cultivated largely for its fragrant 

 flowers. Sir G. King (1. c.) says that it is wild in the southern parts of India and 

 Ceylon. — Distrib. Java, S. China. 



2. Artabotrys zeylanicus, Hool-.f. Sj' Thorns. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1855) 

 p. 128. A strong climber. Leaves 4-6 by 14-2| in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 oblanceolate or elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, entire, glabrous on 

 both surfaces; petioles | in. long. Flowers solitary or fascicled; 

 peduncles leaf-opposed, thickened, hooked, flattened, with 1 or more 

 pedicels \ in. long starting from the bend of the book and 1 more from 

 its extremity ; bracts at base of pedicel small, acute, rusty-pubesceut. 

 Sepals 3, about \ in. long, broadly ovate, acute, cohering below, rusty- 

 tomentose outside. Petals 1-1^ by \ in., densely toraentose on both 

 surfaces, oblong-lanceolate. Anthers sessile. Fruit of 7-10 carpels, 

 ovoid, mucronate, sessile, somewhat rugose, |-1 in. long, by |-| in. in 

 diam. Seeds | in. long, oblong-ovoid, brown. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 54 ; 

 King, in Ann. Boy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, v. 4, part 1 (1893) p. 43, and 

 part 2, t. 53; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 1, p. 22 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 120.— Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 



Rare, except in Kanara. K.\nai!A : SfocJcsl, Dahelll; crergi-een forests of N. 

 Kanara, towards the south ; abundant in the forests near the G-airsoppa Falls, Talbot ; 

 Divimana (N. Kanara), Woodrowl — Distuib. Ceylon. 



3. UNONA, Linn. 



Trees or scandent shrubs. Flowers usually solitary, axillary or extra- 

 axillary, rather large. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 0, valvate in aesti- 

 vation, 2-seriate, the 3 inner rarely absent. Stamens many, cuneate, 

 the apex ol' the produced connective subglobose or truncate. Torus flat 

 or slightly concave. Ovaries many ; ovules 2 or more, 1-seriate (rarely 

 sub-2-seriate) ; style ovoid or oblong, recurved, grooved. Bipe carpels 

 usually stalked, elongate and constricted between the seeds or baccate. 



