iv. ANONACE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 83 



as long, 3-gonous, concave at the base only. Torus flat, or hollow and en- 

 closing the carpels. Stamens oblong, truncate or connective produced; 

 anther-cells remote or contiguous, usually septate, with a large pollen -grain 

 in each cellule. Ovaries 1 or more; style long, clavate; ovules 2-6 or 

 more, 1-2-seriate. Ripe carpels long or short, continuous or moniliform, 

 usually several-seeded, DISTRIB, Tropics generally ; species 30-40. Closely 

 allied to Melodorum, but very different in habit. 



SECT. I. Habzelia, Alph. DC. (Gen?). Torw flat or slightly concave. 

 Ripe carpels cylindric or obovoid. 



. 1. X. ferruginea, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 123 (Habzelia) ; leaves narrow- 

 oblong acute glabrous and shining above glaucous beneath and rusty- 

 pubescent on the veins, peduncles solitary or geminate, carpels cylindric 

 slender subtorulose. Artabotrys malayana, Griff. Notul. iv. 713. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A flexuous ramose shrub; branchletg rusty-pubescent. Leaves 5-7 by l|-2 in., 

 base oblique rounded or subcordate, much reticulate ; petiole J-& in. Flowers pen- 

 dulous, yellow, fragrant ; peduncles f-l in., rusty-pubescent. Sepals ovate, acute. 

 Outer petals J in., taper-pointed, yellow-tome ntose ; inner sborter, narrower, triquetrous 

 above, base contracted. Anthers with a long narrow process, cells septate. Ovaries 

 many golden strigose. Carpels 4~4 in., blood-red. /Seeds ovoid, aril 0. 



2. X. oxyantha, H. f. & T. FL Ind. 124 (Habzelia) ; leaves ovate or 

 oblong abruptly acuminate glabrous glaucous below, peduncles fascicled 

 axillary. Uvaria oxyantha, Wall. Cat. 6478. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



A tree ; brandies glabrous ; young parts puberulous. Leaves 7-8 by 24~34 in. ; 

 petiole in. Flowers more than 1 in. long, peduncles ^-^ in., appressed downy. 

 Sepals broad-ovate. Outer petals l^-lj in., narrow-linear, pubescence yellowish ap- 

 pressed, back slightly keeled. 



3. X. malayana, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 125 ; leaves oblong obtusely acu- 

 minate glabrous reticulate beneath, peduncles very short 3-5-flowered, sepals 

 united to the middle, carpels cylindric-oblong obtuse pubescent. Pararta- 

 botrys sumatrana, Miq. FL Ned. Ind. Suppl. i. 374. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A tree; branches slender, glabrous; buds pubescent. Leaves 3-5 by 1.4-2 in., coria- 

 ceous, base acute, pale-brown when dry beneath ; petiole jU- in. Flowers -1 in. 

 long, triquetrous ; peduncles, axillary, 1-bracteate; pedicels short and brown-tomentose. 

 Sepals ovate, acute. Outer petals linear, inner shorter. Connective prolonged ; 

 anther-cells septate. Ovaries 5-7, strigose, 2-ovuled (6-ovuled, Maingay). Carpels 

 ^-1 in., many-seeded ; stalk short, thick. 



4. X. obtusifolia, //./. & T. ; leaves oblong obtuse or retuse glabrous 

 and shining above brown-silky beneath, cymes subracemose, sepals acute 

 united to the middle. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



A tree ; branches glabrous ; buds rather silky. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1| in., coriaceous, 

 base acute ; petiole - in. flowers like those of X. malayana in shape and size, 

 brown-silky. Cymes ^- in. ; pedicels in., rather silky, with a median and basal 

 bracteole. Ovules 4-5. 



5. X. fuse a, Maingay mss. ; branches glabrous, leaves small elliptic- or 

 linear-oblong obtuse coriaceous glabrous, nerves faint reticulate, flowers 



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