IV. ANONACE^. 17 



Ceyl. V. 1, p. 35; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 6; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 121.— Flowers : Feb. 



Kanaka: on the Gliiits, Stocfcs], Dahelll; N. Kanara, Talbot; Bodeli, in fruit, in 

 April, Woodroio. — Distrib. Ceylon. 



10. BOCAGEA, St. Hilaire. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves often pellucido-punclate. Flowers small, 

 terminal, axillary or fascicled, on woody tubercles, 1-2-sexual. Sepals 

 o\ate or orbicular, scarcely connate at the base. Petals 6, imbricate, in 

 2 series, subequal, orbicular or concave. Stamens 6-18, thick ; con- 

 nective produced. Ovai'ies 3-6, attenuated into a short style; ovules 

 1 or 2-8 on the ventral suture ; stigma capitate or obtuse. Eipe carpels 

 stalked, globose. — Disteib. Tropical Asia and S. America ; species 12. 



1. Bocagea Dalzelli, Uool-. f. Fl. B. I. v. 1 (1875) p. 92. A 

 small, handsome, laurel-like tree ; branches slender. Leaves coriaceous, 

 4-8 by I5-24 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, upper surface 

 shining, glabrous, lower dull, paler, base narrowed or rounded ; petioles 

 ^-g in. long, transversely rugose. Flo\^Trs small, white, solitary or in 

 fascicles of 2-10, on small woody tubercles on the branches below the 

 leaves ; pedicels | in. long, with numerous scaly bracts at the base. 

 Sepals orbicular, connate at the base, glabrous, ciliate. Petals : the 

 exterior 5 in. long, orbicular, concave; the interior a little shorter, 

 ciliate. Stamens 12-18, the outer row sometimes imperfect ; connective 

 broad, projecting above the dorsal anthers. Ovaries 3-5, oblong, hairy ; 

 style short, lateral, glabrous ; stigma small. Eipe carpels 1 in. in 

 diam., smooth, globose, sessile. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 92 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 6 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 121. Guatteria 

 lain-ifolia, Grab. Cat. p. 4. Scujercm laurina, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 2 ; King, in 

 Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, v. 4, part 1 (1893) p. 7, and part 2, 

 t. 35, B. — Flowers : Nov. Veen. Sayeri ; Audi. 



The Konkan and Kanara on the hills. Konkan : Stocks \, DalselV.; ravines at the 

 western side of the Ghats and hills at Nagotua, Graham ; Matheran, Cooke !, 

 Woodrow ! Kanara : N. Kanara, in evergreen forests, Talbot. 



Oeder V. MENISPERMACE^. 



Scandent or twining shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually palminerved, 

 entire or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers dioecious, small or minute, fas- 

 cicled, panicled or racemose, rarely solitary. Sepals usually 6 (rarely 

 1-4 or 9-12), imbricate in 2-4 series, the outer often minute. Male 

 ELOAVEES : Stamens hypogynous, equal in number and opposite to the 

 petals ; filaments free" or connate ; anthers various, usually adnate, ex- 

 trose or lateral. Female elowees : Staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 

 (rarely 1 or 6-12) ; ovules solitary, usually amphitropous ; styles usually 

 recurved, simple or lobed. Eipe carpels drupaceous ; style-scar sub- 

 terminal or, by excentric gro\\th, sub-basal. Seeds usually hooked or 

 reniform, often curved round an intrusion of the endocarp {condyle, 

 Miers); albumen even, or ruminate, or 0; cotyledons flat or semiterete, 

 foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreading. — Disteib. Chiefly in the 

 tropics of both hemispheres ; genera 32; species about 100. 







