124 flora indica. [Anonacea. 



Hab. In penins. Malayana ad Malacca, Griffith! — (v. s.) 



Arbor. Hamuli vix rugulosi, cortice fusco, pubescent cs, demnm glabrati, juuiores 

 cum omnibus partibus novellis dense fermgiueo-tomentosi. Folia 5-7 poll, longa, 

 1-5—2 lata, petiolo vix 2 liueas longo, coriacea, rigida, supra glabra, lucida, subtus 

 pallida, fusca, petiolis nervisque tomentosis. Pedunculi \ poll, longi, prope basin 

 squamulis minutis bracteolati, tomentosi. Sepala ovata. Petala 1-li-pollicaria, 

 fulvo-tomentosa. Ovaria denseferrugineo-strigosa. Carpella 2 poll, longa, lsevia, 

 glabra. Semina oblonga, testa spongiosn, uniserialia. 



We have only seen two or three detached carpels, and have not been able to find 

 any arillus. 



2. H. oxyantha (H.f. et T.) ; foliis ovalibus vel oblongis abrupte 

 acuminatis utrinque glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis. — Uva- 

 ria oxyantha, Wall. Cat. 6478 ! 



Hab. In penins. Malayana ad Singapnr, Wall.! — (v. s. in Herb. 

 Linn. Soc.) 



Arbor. Ramuli validi, rugosi, cortice fusco, glabri, juniores puberuli. Folia 7-8 

 poll, longa, 2ij-3^ lata, pet. ^-poll., coriacea, supra nitida, subtus glauca. Pedun- 

 culi petinluni paullo superantes, adpresse puberuli. Sepala conuata, late ovata, de- 

 mum revoluta, dorso puberula. Petala griseo-puberula, 1-f—l^ poll, longa, siccitate 

 dorso costata. Stamina et ovaria prioris. 



12. XYLOPIA, L. 



Coelocline, Alph. DC. Mem. Patonia, Wight, HI. i. 18. 



Sepala 3, basi (ssepe alte) connata. Petala 6, sestivatione biseriatim 

 valvata, elongata, subsequilonga, crasse coriacea; exteriora concava, 

 marginibus planis; interiora basi tantum excavata, superne triquetra. 

 Torus conicus, interne excavatus et ovaria includens, externe stamina 

 gerens. Stamina indefinita, oblonga, antherarum loculis dorsalibus re- 

 motis, connectivo truncato capitato. Ovaria definita, 1-5, sericea, in- 

 tra torum abscondita, oblonga vel ovalia, stylis elongatis exsertis in 

 conum conniventibus apice clavatis. Ovula 2-6, secus sutnram ventra- 

 lem horizontalia. — Arbores forsan humiles, foliosce, ramosa, foliis coria- 

 ceis lucidis, floribus axillaribus solitariis vel fasciculatis, alabastris longis 

 triquetris. 



The genus Xylopia was originally founded by Linnrcus, but its characters were re- 

 modelled by St. Hilaire, who first established it firmly, as we now recognize it, distin- 

 guishing it by the shape of the petals, the position of the ovules, the peculiar hol- 

 low torus, and the dehiscence of the fruit. Von Martius distinguishes it by the same 

 characters, while A. Richard, in the ' 11. Cubte/ depending principally on the torus, 

 omits all mention of the dehiscence of the fruit, and unites with it Alph. De Candolle's 

 Ccelocline and Habzelia. The latter genus we have already alluded to. Coelocline, 

 which has the same torus and ovary as Xylopia, appears distinguished by less im- 

 portant characters, as the dehiscence of the fruit sometimes seems to occur at a very 

 late period, and the presence of arillus is perhaps of no great moment in the Order. 



fruit 



arillus 



similar 



of the Asiatic ones are in no way distinguishable from those of the American ones. 

 If the fruit of any of the Indian plants described below be found to differ from that 

 of the typical species of the genus, the difference will in all probability be regarded 



