JEllipeia.] iv. ANONACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 53 



petiole 4 in., thickened, glabrous. Flowers f in. diara., silky-pubescent, solitary, leaf- 

 opposed ; peduncle short, stout ; bracts basal. Sepals broad-ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 spreading, imbricate (Maingay), outer obovate-oblong, obtuse ; inner rather shorter, 

 oblong. Stamens in $ very many, in ? few. Ovaries many, curved, top rounded. 

 Unripe carpels f in., narrow*ovoid, curved, narrowed at either end, fleshy. 



4. CYATHOCALYX, Champion. 



Trees. Leaves glabrous. Flowers fascicled terminal or leaf-opposed. 

 Sepals free or united into a 3-lobed cup. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate in bud, 

 subequal. bases concave conniving, blade flat spreading. Stamens indefinite, 

 long-cuneate, truncate ; anther-cells linear, dorsal. Ovaries solitary (or 2-3 

 in C. ? Maingayi\ on a concave torus ; stigma large, peltate ; ovules many. 

 Ripe carpels berried. DISTRIB. Tropical India ; species 3. 



1. C. zeylanicus, Champ.; H. /. <k T. Fl. Ind. 127; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate, calyx truncate remotely ,3-toothed, carpel oblong or 

 subglobose. Thwaites Enum. 9 ; JSeddome Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 47. 



Central and southern provinces of CEYLON, Walker. 



A tree ; branches glabrous ; bark dark, buds golden-pubescent. Leaves 6-10 by 

 2-3 in., base acute; petiole 4 in. Flowers 1-3, fascicled on a short woody peduncle, 

 pale green; pedicels 4~1 in. Petals 2 by 1^ in., brown-pubescent. Carpels 24 in. 

 diam., berried. Seeds compressed, 1 in., sides tranversely rugose, testa, red brown, 

 bony. We have removed the Mergui plant of Griffith (No. 1032) to the following. 



2. C. martabanicus, H.f.&T.; leaves ovate or oblong acuminate, 

 calyx acutely 3-lobed to the middle, carpel oval. 



Forests of PEGU, TENASSERIM and MARTABAN. 



A tree ; branches smooth, glabrous, young puberulous. Leaves 6-8 by 2-4 in. ; 

 petiole 4 in- Flowers 1-3 together, leaf-opposed ; pedicels very short, pubescent. 

 Calyx pubescent. Petals f-1 in., inner shortest and narrowest. Carpel 3 by 1^ in. 



3. C. ? Maing-ayi, H.f. & T. ; leaves glabrous broad-elliptic or elliptic - 

 oblong, tip | in. abruptly caudate linear obtuse, buds subglobose silky, 

 carpels very large thick subglobose sessile. 



MALACCA., Maingay. 



A tree ; branchlets nearly glabrous. Leaves 5-7 by 2-3 ,in., base obtuse or sub- 

 acute, membranous, beneath concolorous, nerves slender; petiole tV~ in. Flowers 2 in. 

 diam., several on a short pubescent axillary bracteate peduncle. Sepak almost free, 

 ovate, acute, densely pubescent. Outer petals obovate, rusty pubescent ; inner rather 

 smaller and narrower. Connective not prolonged. Ovaries 2-3 ; ovules 10, 2-seriate. 

 Carpels 2-34 by l-3 in., subverrucose, pubescent, at length glabrous. Seeds many, 

 broad, flattened, imbricate in 2 series; testa bony. Referred to near Artabotrys and 

 Cananga by Maiugay ; a very doubtful member of this genus. Petals valvate below, 

 imbricate above. 



5. ARTABOTRYS, R. Brown. 



Sarmentose or scandent shrubs. Leaves shining. Flowers solitary or 

 fascicled, usually on woody usually hooked recurved branches (peduncles). 

 Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6, 2-seriate, bases concave connivent, limb spreading, 

 flat subterete or clavate. Stamens oblong or cuneate ; connective truncate or 

 produced ; anther-cells dorsal. Torus flat or convex. Ovaries few or many ; 

 style oblong or columnar; ovules 2, erect, collateral. Ripe carpels berried. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical Africa and Eastern Asia. 



