130 ODOROGRAPHIA. 
localities known as Nag-champa. The name “ ferrea,” or “ iron,” 
is in allusion to the hardness of the timber. 
ARTABOTRYS ‘ODORATISSIMUS. 
The odour of the strongly-scented flowers of this plant is closely 
allied to that of Ylang-Ylang, the Cananga odorata. 
The plant is figured and described by Brown in the ‘ Botanical 
Register,’ v. p. 423. 
The synonymy given by Brown is a valuable contribution to the 
‘ Botanical Register,’ and presents a critical view of the scientific 
history of the species. The synonyms are as follows :— 
Uvaria odoratissima, Roxb., Flor. Ind. MS. ined. 
Unona uncinata, Dunal, Anonacées, p. 105, tt. 12 & 12a. 
ee Me DeCandolle, Syst. Nat. 1. p. 491. 
A , Dunal, Anonacées, p. 107. 
Uvaria esculenta, Rottler, in Noy. Act. Soc. Nat. Cur. 
Berol. iv. p. 201. 
»  uncata, Loureiro, Cochin, p. 349. 
Anona unicata, Lamarck, Ency. i. p. 127. 
Annona hexapetala, Linn. Supp. p. 270; Hort. Kew. ii. 
p- 253; Ed. 2, i. p. 335. 
e :, Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1266. 
The shrub is a native of China and the East Indies, where 
it is cultivated as an ornamental covering for walls; it is also 
distributed in Java and Ceylon. It attains a height of about 
6 feet. Its leaves are oblong or lanceolate and glabrous, from 
2 to 8 inches in length by 1 to 2 inches in breadth. The flowers 
are yellow, solitary or in pairs, and extremely fragrant. The petals 
are 1 to 1#inch in length, when young pubescent, especially at the 
base, glabrous when expanded. The carpels are obovate-oblong 
and glabrous. 
When cultivated under glass in England the flowers of this 
shrub do not attain the yellow colour natural to them, but remain 
of a pale sickly green. 
The following distinctive features of Artabotrys are mentioned 
by Brown to separate this genus from the plants formerly known 
as Unona or Uvaria:—“In Artabotrys the petals are of equal 
depth, the germen 2-seeded, growing up to a 2-seeded fruit (or 
sometimes accidentally to a solitary-seeded fruit) ; the seeds are 
