20 FI.OJiA <>!< MAI)]} AS. 



whorls, or the inner whorl wanting ; outer triquetrous, base con- 

 cave. Stamens numerous ; anther-cells narrow, dorsal, contiguous, 

 hidden by the overlapping ovoid tops of connectives. Ovaries 

 many, subconnate ; style oblong ; ovule 1, erect. Fruit many- 

 celled, ovoid or globose, many-seeded. 



Leaves obtuse, 2-3 in. long, glaucous beneath ; nerves ascending ; flower 

 greenish ; fruit green, ovoid, with projecting ovoid areoles.,.1. squamosa. 

 Leaves acuminate, 5-8 in. long, green beneath ; nerves divergent ; flowers 

 pale green ; fruit orange, subglobose, with flat, 5-cornered areoles 



2. reticulata. 



1. ANONA SQUAMOSA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 78 ; W. & A. 7. 



The West Indian " Sweet Sop," the "Custard Apple " of 



India. 



Cultivated for its fruit, and now very widely spread in the 



vicinity of villages, temples and old forts. Vern. Hind. 



Sharipha, Sitaphal ; Tarn. Sita ; Tel. Sita pandu. 



2. ANONA RETICULATA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 78 ; W. & A. 7. 



The " Bullock's Heart " of India, the " Custard Apple " of 

 the West Indies, also sometimes occurs in a naturalized 

 state. 



12. Xylopia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous. Flowers axillary, supra- 

 axillary, or on nodes below the leaves, solitary, cymose or fascicled ; 

 buds triquetrous, conic, often slender. Sepals 3, valvate, connate 

 or free. Petals 6, elongate, valvate, in two whorls ; outer flat or 

 concave ; inner nearly as long, 3-gonous, concave at the base only. 

 Torus flat, or hollow and enclosing the carpels. Stamens oblong, 

 truncate or connective produced ; anther-cells hidden under over- 

 lapping connectives, remote or continuous, 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. Fruit a ring of long or 

 short, continuous or moniliform, usually several-seeded carpels. 



XYLOPIA PARVIFOLIA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 84 ; Bedd. 



Ic. t. 43, and Fl. t. 172 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 145, t. 190A. 



A lofty but slender buttressed tree with narrow subsessile 



pubescent brown flowers ; bracts longer than the sepals ; leaves 



2-3'5 in. long, reticulate. 



Moist forests of Travancore up to 2,000 ft. 



