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ARTABOTRYS 



ARTABOTRYS 



glabrous, several, each with 2 erect, ovules at the base; 

 stylft? linear-oblong or cliib-shapoil: berries plum-like, 

 clustered on the hardened reoeptaole, oblong, narrowed 

 at the base, neixrly sessile, with a .small point at the apex, 

 smooth, yellow and fragrant when rijie. S. China, 

 Formosa, India, Ceylon, iJurma, Philippine Lsls. B.R. 

 423. — .\ speeies widely cult, in the warm countries of 

 the eastern hemisphere and in conservatories, for its 

 fragrant fls. and frs. This speeies is tender in Cent. Fla. 

 and should be banked with dry sand. It needs rich 

 soil and should be well fertilized each year. Easily 

 prop, by seeds. 



BB. Petals tomentose or pubescent, not exceeding an inch 

 in length. 



c. Ft. ovoid, sharp-pointed: petals onale-lanceolate, 



brownish red, pubescent. 

 uncinatus, Safford {Annbna iincinata. Lam.). Fig. 

 384. A shrub with climbing divaricate branches; young 

 branches slightly pubescent at first, at length glabrous, 

 more or less zigzag: Ivs. lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, usually acute at the base, glabrous on both 



384. Artabotrys uncinatus. 



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sides, glo-ssy, and with short thick petioles, 5-10 in. 

 long by 2-3 in. broad: hooked peduncles glabrous, 

 cur\-ed downwards almost like a spiral, somewhat 

 flattened, usually opposite a If., often with the portion 

 of the branch above it more or less aborted, so as to 

 make it appear terminal; calyx ;i-parted, the divisions 

 ovate-acute; petals 6, ovate-lanceolate, brownish red 

 on the upper part, with broad claws, woolly or pubes- 

 cent ("cottoneux"), concave within and constricted 

 between the claw and the limb, the 3 outer petals 

 about 5iin. long, somewhat larger than the inner, and 

 relatively broader; ovaries about 8-12, gradually tap- 

 ering upward to the obtuse .stigmatic apex, clothed 

 with minute hairs, and containing 2 basal collateral 

 erect ovules: frs. several, rounded-ovoid, abruptly 

 pointed at the apex, nearly sessile, about the size of a 

 walnut inclosed in its hull, at length smooth, lightly 

 punctate, and inclosing 2 oblong seeds truncated at 

 the ba.se, rising side by side from the base, more or 

 less cornpresswJ and bearing a marginal groove around 

 the periphery of the hard bony testa. — This species was 

 describwi by Lamarck from specimens collected by 

 Sonnerat in the E. Indies and Madagascar (see figs. 

 Dunal Anon. pis. 12, 12a;. It is verj' closely related to 



A . odoratis.'iim.us, R. Br., from which it apparently differs 

 in the broader shape, reddish bro\\Ti color, and "cot- 

 tony" indumentum of its petals. If, as supposed by 

 many botanists, the two species are identical, the spe- 

 cific name uncinatus of Blume, which it more closely 

 resembles, the latter, set apart by Hooker & Thomson 

 as a distinct species under the name A. Blumei, must 

 j'ield to the earlier specific name, and A. odoratissimus, 

 R. Br., be retained as a species distinct from Lamarck's 

 though supposed by its author and his followers to be 

 identical with it. A. uncinatus, like its very close ally, 

 A. odoratissimus, is frequently planted in the warm 

 regions of the eastern hemisphere for the sake of its 

 fragrant fls. 



cc. Fr. tapering at both ends: petals linear-kmceolate, 

 tomerUose. 



hamatus, Blume (A. odoratissimus. Hook. f. & 

 Thomson). A large scrambhng shrub with elongate sar- 

 mentose glabrous branches: Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, 2-4 in. long by 

 1-1 J 2 in- broad, coriaceous, glabrous, delicately veined 

 on both surfaces: hooked peduncles flattened, glabrous, 

 spirally curved, several-fld. but usuaUy all but one of the 

 fls. abortive; pedicel curved, clothed with short pubes- 

 cence and bearing at the base a sessile ovate caducous 

 bracteole; fls. yellowish ferrugineous; calyx minute, 

 subtomentose, deciduous, deeply 3-parted, the divisions 

 broadly ovate-acute, spreading and reflexed; outer and 

 inner petals of equal length, 1 in. long, linear-lanceolate, 

 obtusely acuminate, thickish, tomentose, excavated and 

 constricted at the base, conniving over the essential 

 parts and almost conceaUng them, the limb, above the 

 constriction, curving somewhat inward, witih a raised 

 median line along the back and a groove within, the 

 outer petals somewhat broader than the inner; recep- 

 tacle plano-convex, clothed with minute hairs; sta- 

 mens numerous, thick, club-shaped, obtuse, the con- 

 nective swollen and rounded above the pollen-sacs; 

 ovaries few, about 5-8, Unear-oblong, glabrous, taper- 

 ing upward into the terete style; mature hardened 

 receptacle bearing 3-5 fruiting carpels 2-232 hi. long 

 and 1 in. diam., tapering toward both ends, obtusely ' 

 acuminate, rather smooth, marked with longitudinal 

 lines within from the base to the apex and spotted with 

 greenish and white, at length turning red; seeds 2, erect, 

 side by side, oval, with a hard bony pericarp sur- 

 rounded by a marginal groove, and a large ruminate 

 albumen. Java, common at the base of high mts. — 

 Widely diffused in India and Ceylon, and planted for 

 the sake of its fragrant fls., often scrambling over 

 garden walls. Closely allied to this species is Arta- 

 botrys intermedins, Hassk., which grows in the botani- 

 cal gardens of Buitenzorg, on the island of Java. Its 

 calyx is described as silky within, its petals as green and 

 covered with fine tomentum, the exterior ones a little 

 broader and longer than the inner (an inch long), and 

 ovate-lanceolate in shape, and the ripe carpels obovoid 

 and acutish. 



AA. Shape of petals cylindrical or club-shaped, fleshy: 



peduncles several-fld. 

 suaveolens, Blume. Buffalo Thorn. Durie 

 Carabao. Susong Damulag. a large woody climber 

 or scrambling shrub: young branches puberulous: Ivs. 

 eUiptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 in. long by 1- 

 IH in. broad, acuminate, at the acute or obtuse base 

 usually narrowed into a short glabrous petiole, coriace- 

 ous or subcoriaceous, glabrous or pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath, glossy above, conspicuously veined 

 on both sides: peduncles short, recurved or hooked, 

 flattened and fasciated, puberulous, several-fld.; fls. 

 very fragrant, small, yellow, borne on pedicels liin. 

 long or less; petals all similar, about J-^in. long, fleshy, 

 terete or club-shaped, broad and concave at the base, 

 where they connive to form a dome-shaped covering 

 over the essential parts; stamens many, short and thick, 



