708 ANONACEX. 
ginat. ovula plura biseriata anatropa. Placente processus 
membrana distinctus inter series ovulor. interject. 
This appears intermediate between Anonacez and Schi- 
zandracez, but I have not seen the fruit. 
The wood is remarkable, the pith is very small. Ligneous 
system white subcruciately 4-lobed, sinuses of lobes con- 
cave, 2nd brown very thin opposite to angles of the white, 
but much developed and filling up the concave sinuses be- 
tween the white lobes. 
The vessels of the white lobes are large and frequently, the 
medullary rays are pronounced, complete and white in both 
systems, very large towards the circumference, and generally 
containing one or two linear facie both of white wood. 
Medullary rays distinct continuous with back and medulla, 
the spaces between each i. e. the wood composed of fine dense 
fibres, and a subsingle row of vessels, (scalarif.), the brown 
part consists of transverse subundulated lines of woody fibre, 
and transverse oblong spaces filled with brown matter! These 
brown spaces are divided by septa, and probably the chief 
difference between the brown and white, is, that in the brown ; 
the vessels predominate so much as to subdivide or break 
up the continuity of the fibrous part. 
I know no anonaceous plant with a corolla like that of 
this one, although Artabotrys would resemble it, and severa 
others if the lamina of the petals were absolutely abortive. 
The flowers have no odour, but the usual aroma exists in 
the plant. 
I only know the male flowers of kadsura or Sphzerostem- 
ma, but this plant agrees with it in form of perianth corolla, 
in the bracteate padicel and in the valvate zstivation. 
It is not however moncecious, and its ovaria, and anthers 
are decidedly (particularly the former) anonaceous, and so i$ 
the number of the parts of the perianth. 
The wood, certainly tends to the menispermaceous struc- 
ture, 
