1 Pi X. 1 TUHA L irrs rnn y of plaxts. 



teria} (Madagascar) and Jiiomiant/tnir (Java). In all other respects 

 their flowers and fruits present so exactly the structure of Uvaria, 

 that we cannot remove them into distinct genera. As a section, 

 we might strictly distinguisli Marenicna by the arrangement of the 

 flowers, which are borne on a long terminal peduncle ; but we have 

 hardly an}^ similar character to give a clear distinction between 

 Anoinianiluis and those true Uctirifhs in which the interior corolla 

 is a little the longer. In both types the imbrication of the petals is 

 well marked, and the calyx is gamosepalous, f(jrming a sac with three 

 obtuse teeth in Marcnferia,^ and more deeply divided in Anounanihux. 

 The flowers of the latter are nearly sessile, while in Mfiroitrrin they 

 are, as we have said, on a long peduncle. 



Ellipeiit' is easily distinguished from the other Urnrlnx by its 

 ovules being solitary instead of indefinite ; or there are more rarely 

 two in each carpel. They are inserted at a variable height on the 

 inner angle of the ovary, and are somewhat ascending. This 

 character, which at first sight appears very significant, is, however, 

 insufficient to establish a distinct genus in the order AnonacecB ; for it 

 has been shown' that many other genera that are perfectly natural and 

 accepted by all authors as such, include species with uni- or bi-ovulate 

 ovaries, as well as species with many-seeded fruits. Everything else 

 in the three species from the Indian Archipelago which have been 

 described in tliis genus,'' being like the characters of Urnria — the 

 imbricate corolla, the numerous stamens, with the connectives 

 dilated and truncated above the anther-cells, the alternate hairy 

 leaves, the sarmentose stems — we can only retain FJlipe'ia as a 

 section of Uvaria,' with one-seeded fruits.'' 



' NoHoN., cx Drr.-Tii., Gen. Noo. Madaij., ractera, inUfrmediate between tlie tvpiciil J/(ir«i. 



18, n. 6t). — \^. H., Gen., 957, n. 23, a.— H. Bn., teria, and tliose snniient»ise l'v(iria» of tropical 



Adansonia, viii. 301, 32."). — Unona Maren- Asia wliich i)<»sses8 teniiimil flowore on lonp 



teria DC. Si/nt., i. 487; /VWr., i. S<>, ii. 1.— peduneles, especially V. Snnnn W a\.\.. 



I)l?s., Mon., 111]. * Hook. iV- TiroMs., Fl. hid., \. KM. !>. H.. 



» ZOM... Lhntnn, xxix. 321. 15. II., fV, «., (Se>,., 23. i)5G, n. «.— H. Un., Aihiusonio, viii. 



27, n. 2Ci. — n. lis., A(l<iii.souiii, viii. 3(JI. 30.'), 33.'i. 



» In ttroti>er Hpccics from Miidnc^ascar, wliieh * Sec AdaiiKonia, viii. 175. 177, 18C>, 183. 



wo have described untler tlie name of U. Conv- * Walp., Ann., iv. 50. — Mig., Fl. Iml.Rnl. 



mertonii [Adannouia, vu... 3 Mi), the BcpaU are i. p. ii. 27 ; Ann. iliis. Luffd. Bat., ii. St. 



nearly free, wliile tlie n«rpel« are far more nume- 7 ThiH fruit is snrniounte«l by a tiinall apiculus. 



rous than in Jifaren/frla Dii-ktitTiioiaks, for wliicli becomes more or less lateral thronnh the 



tliis biiH only Iroin three (o live in eacli (lower. ini('i|ual development of the dillerent regions of 



The Hower of U. Commerionii in leaf-opjMwed oi the pericarp. 



terminal, on a shorter peduncle than in //. ;!/«rr«- *< We have bc.n unable to study the genu 



tfrin; HO that this sjiecies is. in most of its cha- Sphrrrnthnlnnnm Hook. V. (Linn, fran*., xxiii 



