

Artabotrys.'] ANONACEiE. 11 



In similar places to the last, but less common, Champion, also Hance. Received also from 

 other parts of S. China. 



3. UNONA, Linn. 



Petals 6, valvate in the bud in each series, rather thin and long, and nearly 

 flat. Stamens numerous, closely packed, oblong-tetragonous. Carpels inde- 

 finite, with 2 or more ovules in each, in a single series. Styles oval or oblong, 

 recurved. Ripe carpels succulent, indehiscent, usually elongated, and sepa- 

 rated by constrictions into 1 -seeded joints. — Trees or shrubs, rarely climbers. 

 Flowers rather large, axillary or lateral. 



The species are all Asiatic. 



1. U. discolor, Vahl ; Hook, and Thorns. Fl. Ind. i. 133. A shrub or small 

 tree. Leaves from oblong to lanceolate, usually 4 or 5 inches long, acute, 

 rounded at the base, very glabrous, and somewhat shining above, glaucous, 

 and often slightly pubescent underneath. Peduncles lateral, 1 -flowered, 1 to 

 2 in. long. Flowers nodding, at first green, then yellowish. Petals broad 

 at the base, lanceolate, rather obtuse, often attaining 2 inches in length, though 

 much shorter when they first open. Carpels several, each divided into 2 to 6 

 articles about the size of a pea, or sometimes reduced to a single one. 



Very common in the lower ravines of Hongkong, Champion and others. Widely spread 

 over the hotter and damper parts of India, from Ceylon to the foot of the Himalaya, the 

 Archipelago, and S. China. 



Ouder Y. MENISPEEMACE^J. 



Flowers unisexual, usually dioecious. Sepals usually 6, in 2 series, rarely 

 5 or fewer, or 9 or 12 in 3 or 4 series, the inner ones the largest. Petals 

 usually 6, nearly equal, and smaller than the calyx, imbricate in 2 series, rarely 

 5, or fewer or none. Male flowers : Stamens hypogynous, usually of the same 

 number as the petals, and opposite to them, free or united in a central column. 

 Female flowers : Sterile stamens usually 6, free. Carpels of the ovary distinct 

 and free, usually 3, sometimes 6 or more, or reduced to 1, with 1 ovule in 

 each. Styles terminal, usually oblique or recurved. Fruiting carpels drupa- 

 ceous, the putamen usually concave on the inner face, or very much curved, 

 the endocarp projecting into the cavity. Seed more or less peltately attached 

 to the projection, either albuminous, with a central embryo, or almost without 

 albumen, the embryo then thick and fleshy, with almond-like cotyledons. Ra- 

 dicle superior. — Climbers. Leaves alternate, undivided, usually with palmate 

 veins or peltate. No stipules. Flowers usually small, paniculate, racemose, 

 or cymose, rarely solitary. 



A considerable tropical Order both in the New and the Old "World, a very few species ex- 

 tending into N. America and northern Asia, and a rather greater number into southern 

 Africa and Australia. It is unknown in Europe. 



Sepals and petals 6 each. Carpels 3. Flowers unisexual. 



Anthers adnate. Styles short, fiat. Flowers in long panicles or ra- 

 cemes, or the females solitary 1, Limacia. 



Anthers terminal, nearly globose. Styles cylindrical. Flowers in 



long panicles 2. Cocculus. 



