ANONACEJE. 



Branches woody, smooth at bottom, slender and velvety at the 

 points. Leaves ovate, acute, 3 in. long, 12-14 lines broad, quite 

 smooth on the upper surface, downy beneath. Flowers unknown. 

 Peduncles of the fruit thick, woody, naked, 4 lines long. Torus of the 

 fruit capitate, 3 lines broad, marked by the scars where the fruit 

 dropped off. Carpels 12-18, pod-shaped, 1-2 inches long, knotted, 

 striated, quite smooth, with the taste of pepper. Fruit pungent, 

 aromatic, and often substituted for other spices. It is the Piper 

 agthiopicum of commerce. 



62. H. aromatica A. de C. I c. 32. Waria zeylanica Aubl. 

 guian. i. 605. t. 243. Unona aromatica Dunal. man. 112. D C. 

 prodr. i. 91. Woods of Guiana. 



A tree with a trunk 20 feet high and more. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 smooth, quite entire, subsessile. Flowers solitary or 2 together, 

 downy externally, smooth and violet internally. Fruit 12-20 to 

 each flower, knotted, cylindrical, brownish, with a deep furrow on one 

 side. Fruit pungent, aromatic, employed by the Blacks in lieu of 

 spice. 



MONODORA. 



Sepals 3. Petals 6 in 2 rows; the outer lanceolate, the 

 inner ovate. Anthers numerous, subsessile. Ovary 1, ovate, 

 1 -celled, with the whole inside covered by ovules; crowned by 

 a sessile stigma. Fruit smooth, corticated, fleshy, roundish, 

 1-celled, many-seeded; seeds nestling in pulp. 



63. M. myristica Dunal. monogr. 80. DC. prodr. i. 87. 

 Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3059. Anona myristica Gcertn. carp. 

 ii. 194. t. 125. f. i. Supposed to be a native of the west coast 

 of Africa, and thence carried by the negroes to Jamaica. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, or sometimes obovate, somewhat cordate, 

 entire, smooth, shining, bright pale green above, 4-5 inches long, 1-2 

 broad : petioles short, grooved above. Peduncles opposite to the 

 leaves, single-flowered, round, smooth, greenish white, pendulous, 4 to 

 7 inches long, generally single. Near the summit of the peduncles is a 

 bractea, reflexed when the flower is full blown, subcordate, acute, about 

 12-veined, green, curled and wavy at the margin, slightly variegated with 

 yellowish red. Flowers fragrant ; when beginning to expand, white, 

 marked with purplish-brown spots; afterwards yellow and the spots 

 brighter red. Calyx monophyllous, tube very short, limb deeply cleft into 

 3 unequal sepals, their margins crisped and waved; the sepal opposite 

 to the bract being shorter and narrower than the other two, which are 

 somewhat coriaceous and ovate-acute. Corolla monopetalous, gener- 

 ally twice as long as the calyx ; limb 6-parted in a double series ; 3 

 outer segments oblong-ovate, waved at the margin, of the same colour 

 as the sepals, the ground bright yellow, marked with rows of irregular 

 spots or interrupted stripes of reddish-brown ; 3 inner segments, from 

 to J shorter than the outer, unguiculate, cordate, convex, veined, 

 yellowish-white externally, downy and even at the edges, which adhere 

 slightly, within concave, smooth, shining, pale yellow, variegated 

 with pale crimson spots. Stamens close, in 11-12 rows, on the 



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