Order 4. A nonacece. g 



P. longifolia is a very handsome tree in gardens and else- 

 where, with long lanceolate, shining, waved, leaves and 

 yellowish-green flowers in dense umbels. Ashoka, ratjdmbul, 

 devddr, Asupala. 



3. ANONA. 



1. A. squamosa. The custard apple. Sweet sop of the W. 

 Indies. Sitaphal. 



2. A. reticulata. Bullock's heart. Custard apple of the 

 W. Indies. Rdmphal. 



Both are natives of tropical America, but naturalized in India, 

 the first especially in the "W". Peninsula, the second in Bengal 

 (ff.). 



" The quality of this fruit is well expressed by its English name, 

 which it acquired in the W. Indies ; for it is as like a custard, and a 

 good one too, as can be imagined." Cook's " Voyages." 



Note. The fruit of these two are utterly unlike those of all other 

 species of the order found in India, as in these the carpels are 

 amalgamated into a solid fruit, but in the rest the carpels remain 

 separate. 



Belonging to this section (a) is Uvaria, climbing shrubs with 

 ovaries indefinite in number. *U. narum is a large smooth climber 

 with oblong lanceolate leaves, and large solitary flowers reddish or 

 purple; carpels long-stalked scarlet. S. Ghauts (_D.), Konkan (G.). 

 H. makes D.'s U. lurida a variety of this. 



4. SACCOPETALUM. 



S. tomentosum. Tree with oval or oblong acute leaves, 

 flowers in stalked cymes, greenish- yellow with brown streaks, 

 carpels stalked, 3 or 4 together, size shape and colour of a 

 plum, 3 or 4 seeded. Hum, Kirni, Kari. 



The Konkan and Ghauts, not common. The carpels would naturally 

 be taken for separate fruits. 



To this section belongs Bocaggea. Trees with shining leaves, 

 stamens 6 to 21 in 2 or more series, thick and fleshy. * B. Dalzellii 

 (Sagercea laurina, D.), G. calls a very elegant tree with polished 

 oblong leaves, something like the Portugal laurel ; flowers small 

 white crowded, carpels round smooth, stalked. Sdjeri, undi. The 

 Konkans (D. ^ G.). 



ORDER 5. MENISPERMACE^. 



Climbing or twining shrubs with small inconspicuous dioe- 

 cious flowers, dull green or yellow ; leaves alternate, often 

 peltate, without stipules ; sepals and petals generally 6, 

 stamens as many ; female flowers with 6 or more staminodes, 

 ovaries generally 3, ripe carpels drupaceous. 



