Artaboiri/s.] in. anonace^e (oliver). 29 



tical, obtuse or very shortly and obtusely pointed ; base obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, glabrous, at first with scattered silky hairs ; l^-H in. long, ^-2 in. 

 broad. Petiole 1-4 lines. Flowers about i in. diam., usually on hooked 

 and forked peduncles, often opposed to short, lateral branchlets ; sometimes 

 the peduncles are very short and scarcely or not at all hooked. Sepals 

 spreading, 4-6 lines long, tomentose externally. Petals connivent, plane, 

 incurved at the base, somewhat acute, the 3 inner slightly shorter, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; anthers quadrate-oblong ; connective thickened, truncate, scarcely 

 produced beyond the cells. Carpels numerous, inserted on a pilose torus. 

 Fruit-carpels glabrous, ellipsoidal or obovoid, ^-f in. long, on stipes of 3-5 

 lines ; 2- or 1-seeded. 



Mozaxnb. Distr. Tete, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! 

 The fruit is said to be pleasant eating. 



10. XYLOPIA. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 28. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals more or less connate, rarely nearly free, 

 valvate in aestivation. Petals 6 (3 in X ? polycarpa), valvate in aestivation 

 in two series, 3 outer linear, linear-subulate, oblong or rarely ovate, thick, 

 usually scarcely expanding or connivent, 3 inner rather or much shorter, 

 similar in form and triquetrous above, or ovate-lanceolate and keeled and 

 acute. Stamens indefinite, the innermost sometimes coherent by their fila- 

 ments into a sheath surrounding the ovaries or inserted upon a sheathing, de- 

 ciduous, annular extension of the torus, usually narrow-linear ; anther-cells 

 frequently multilocellate, connective truncate dilated or more or less subpel- 

 tate. Torus nearly plane or but slightly convex, plane or concave in the 

 centre. Carpels few or numerous. Ovaries usually strigose-hairy. Styles 

 elongate, exserted, forming a connivent cone; ovules usually 2-10. Fruit- 

 carpels oblong or narrow-linear, continuous or torulose. — Habzelia, Hook. f. 

 et Thoms. Fl, Ind. i. 123, as well as synonyms quoted in the ' Genera 

 Plantarum.' — Trees or shrubs. Leaves more or less coriaceous. Flowers 

 axillary, in fascicles or solitary, usually on short pedicels. 



A rather large genus, represented in Asia and America as well as in Africa. The species 

 are generally easily recognized by their axillary flowers and narrow thick petals, the carpels 

 inserted upon the plane or concave centre of the torus and sometimes sheathed by an au- 

 Iher-beariDg rim, and by the long connivent styles projecting considerably beyond the sta- 

 mens. X. africatia, with globose buds and ovate outer petals, is exceptional in the genus, 

 but in other particulars it agrees well with Xylopia^ and it is very closely allied to X rw 

 bescens, in which the flowers are long and narrow. 



Petals 6. Sepals or calyx-lobes ovate or broadly ovate-triangular, 



under 3 lines long, or more deeply connate, forming a cupulate, 



broadly-toothed calyx. 



Leaves distinctly narrowed into the petiole, very coriaceous, reddish, 



at least when dry. Inner petals ovate-lanceolate (navicular), 



acute. 



Buds nearly globose. Outer petals broadly ovate 1. X. africana. 



Buds narrow. Outer petals linear-lanceolate 2. X rubescetis. 



Leaves not narrowed into the petiole (or scarcely in X. CEthiopica 

 and X. Thomsoni). Inner petals narrow-linear or liuear- 

 subulate. 

 Flowers sessile or very shortly pedicelled. 



