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flora indica. [Anonacea 



Rami glaberrimi. Folia serrata, denticulate, carnosula, 3-5 poll, longa, 1± lata, 



petiolo i-poll. Pedunculi solitarii vcl subfasciculati, basi squamulis pluribus suf- 



fulti, medio bracteola 1 seiniamplexicaali persistente. Alabastri globosi, pisi inagn. 



Sepala ovate, imequalia. Petala 6, fere rotundata, coriacea. Baccce S. grandi- 



Jlori, sed minores, secus tomm sexpoUicarein spicatee. 



4. S. axiUare(Bl. Bijdr. 22, PI. Jav. Schiz. 14. t. 8); foliis lan- 

 ceolatis longe acuminatis basi rotundatis vel cuneatis, pedunculis ple- 

 rumque brevissimis, toro fructus filiformi abbreviate 



Hab. In mont. Khasia, alt. 4-5000 ped. !— (Fl.per tot.eest.) (v. v.) 

 Distrib. Java. 



Ramulimgj&Rti, rufescentes, glabri. Folia coriacea, superne nitida, subtus pallida, 

 margine integerrima vel distanter denticulata, 3 poll, longa, ^-f poll, lata, petiolo 

 i-poll. Pedunculi axillares, petiolo breviores, ssepe brevissimi, squamis rotundatis 

 imbricatis scariosis tecti. Flores coccinei vel lutescentes, diametro f-poll. Sepala 

 rotundata, parva. Petala 9, triserialia, ovato- rotundata, interiora multa minora. 

 Torus fructus 1-2-pollicaris. Baccce numerosse, substipitatse, globosse. Semina 

 2, vel abortu solitaria. 



V. ANONACE.E. 



Flores hermaphroditi, rarius unisexuales. Sepala 3, hypogyna, a3s- 

 tivatione plerumque valvata, basi soepe coalita. Petala serie duplici 

 6, sestivatione valvata vel imbricata, rarissime serie interiore defici- 

 ente sepalis numero sequalia. Stamina indefinita, multiserialia, rarius 

 subdefinita; plerumque numerosissima, dense conferta. Filamenta 

 abbreviata. Anthera biloculares, connectivo lato superne producto 

 sublateraliter vel extrorse adnatse, loculis remotis vel contiguis, sub- 

 lateraliter vel extrorse dehiseentibus. Ovaria plurima, rarius definita, 

 rarissime solitaria, 1-locularia, supra torum convexum vel conca- 

 vum sessilia, interdum inter se subcohaerentia. Ovula solitaria vel 

 bina e basi erecta, vel in sutura ventrali 1 vel plura, vel indefinita, 

 in Monodora parieti undiqne inserta, anatropa. Stigmata terniina- 

 lia, libera vel inter se subcohaerentia. Carpella sessilia aut stipitata, 

 libera vel in fructum multilocularem coalita, sicca vel pulposa, indebis- 

 centia, rarius follicularia. Semina solitaria vel numerosa. Albumen 

 copiosum, ruminatum. Embryo minutus. — Arbores vel frutices sape 

 scandmtes vel sarmentosi, plerumque aromatici ; foliis attends integerri- 

 mis exslipulatis, floribus ierminalibus vel axillaribus, solitariis vel varie 

 congest is. 



This large and very natural Order is readily distinguishable from its near allies by 

 a combination of well marked characters. The ternary arrangement of the parts of 

 the perianth, the small, closely packed, extrorse, almost sessile anthers, the nume- 

 rous small ovaries, the distinct often stipitate fruits seated on a rounded torus, and 

 the ruminated albumen, characterize all the typical species, though one or other of 

 these characters is occasionally absent, or unavailing as a distinction. The ruminated 

 albumen, though uuiversal in"the Order, occurs also in Myristicacea, and to a small 

 extent in a few genera of Menispennacea. The ternary arrangement of the ilowcr 



