10 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Kadnira. 



KADSURA BOXBURGHIANA, Arn. ; F. B. I. i. 45 ; King Ann. Calc. 

 iii. 222, t. 73A. K. WigUiana, Arn. ; F. B. I. i. 45. 



Petals roundish, concave, outer larger ; berries cuneate 



globose, scarlet. 



Forests of the W. Ghats, in Malabar. 



Family IY. ANONACEAB. 



Trees or shrubs often climbing and frequently aromatic. Leaves 

 alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, more or less distichous ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers 2- or rarely 1-sexual, greenish purple, red, 

 brown or yellow. Sepals 3 or rarely 2, free or connate. Petals 6, 

 usually thick and fleshy, generally biseriate, hypogynous, valvate 

 or slightly imbricate, the inner sometimes absent, very rarely 

 coherent. Stamens many, closely packed on the torus or rarely 

 few in one whorl ; filaments short or ; anthers adnate, bilocular 

 with dorsal or lateral, contiguous or distant cells, with longitudinal 

 dehiscence ; connective produced into an oblong or truncate head. 

 Carpels numerous or rarely few or solitary, distinct or rarely 

 coherent with distinct stigmas, sessile on the top of the torus ; 

 styles short or ; ovules one or more, anatropous. Fruit of 1 or 

 more distinct sessile or stalked 1- or many-seeded, usually in- 

 dehiscent, carpels or rarely of several carpels cohering together in 

 a 1- or many-locular, dry or fleshy, dehiscent or indehiscent fruit. 

 Seeds with abundant ruminate albumen and a minute basal 

 embryo with divaricate cotyledons. 



Petals imbricate in bud (Tribe i. UVARIEAE) : 



Stamens with connectives produced and not concealing the anthers ; 



trees 1. Sageraea. 



Stamens with anthers concealed by the overlapping connectives; 



climbing shrubs 2. Uvaria. 



Petals valvate or open in bud : 



Anther-cells concealed by the overlapping connectives : 

 Outer petals spreading, flat or only concave at the base : 



Inner petals spreading like the outer or none (Tribe ii. UNONEAE) : 

 Petals bent in at the base over the stamens and ovaries, then 

 spreading : 



Peduncles not hooked, carpel 1, many-ovuled 



3. Cyathocalyx. 

 Peduncles hooked, carpels many, l-2-ovuled...4. Artabotrys. 



