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NATURAL HISTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



siirinoiinted by ii dilatation of the connective ; the carpels also of 

 variable number ; the numerous ovules inserted on the inner angle ; 

 the compound fruit consisting of many-seeded berries, with the peri- 

 carj) but little or not at all strangulated in the intervals between 

 the seeds. The species not belonging to this section are dis- 

 tinguished by the strangulations being, on the contrary, very well 

 nuirked, so that each berry looks like a chaplet \vith a variable 

 nuuiber of seeds. Each compartment contains a single suspended 

 seed, with ruminated albumen (tigs. 237, :23S). 



Under the generic name of Canan(ja^ has been distinguished an 



Unona discolor. 

 Fig. 237. Fig. 238. 



Berry. Long, section of berry {\). 



Uiiona {^Canangium) odorata. 

 Fig. 239. Fig. 240. 



Diagram. Stamen (^). 



Indian species, U. odorata- (figs. 239, 240), introduced into almost 



carpels have no strangulations between the seeds. 

 Hut these strangulations exist, on the contrary, 

 and are sometimes very well marked in tlie 

 species allied Desmos (Drx. ex DC, Si/st.,i. 193) 

 and Daxfimaschalon (Hook. & Thoms., loc. cit., 

 134). The whole of the species in which these 

 contractions are wanting or but slightly marked 

 are includtd by De Caxdolle in his section 

 Unonaria {Si/.sf. i. 486; Piodr. i. 89), which 

 includes several species alien to the genus Unona. 

 His section (Efattia (P,-odr., i. 90) only included 

 U. iripetala DC. (%«/., i. 490.) 



' RrMPn., Herb. Amhoin., ii. 195. — Hook. & 

 TiloMS., Fl. Ltd., i. 120.— K. H., Oen., 21, n. 12 

 (ncc Arm..). 



= Dl-N., Man., 107, t. 26.— DC. S,/.tL, i. 492; 

 Prodr., i. 90, n. IS.— U. hptopetala DC, Syst., 

 i. 496; Frodr., i. 91. n. 30; Icon. Ddess., i. 23, 

 t. 88.— U. fplulina G.KUTN., Fnict., ii. t. 104, f. 



2. — Bl., fl Jai\, Anonae., 31 (nee DuN., nee 

 RoxB.). — Uvaria odorata Lamk., -D/c^., i. 595. — 

 U. Canancja Vahl, ex IlooK. & Thoms. — U. 

 axillaris IloXB., FL Ltd., ii. 667. — U. Gcertneri 

 DC, Prodr., i. 88, n. i.— U.farcta Wall., Cat., 

 n. 6460. — Cananga odorata RoxB., FL Ind., ii. 

 661. — Wall., Cat., n. 64.^7.— Blume, Bijdr., 

 14; FL Jav., Jnonac, 29, t. 9, 14 B.— Hook. 

 & Thoms., FL Ind., i. 129.— Walp., Ann., iv. 

 64. In this plant the petals are more or less 

 elongated. The receptacle is convex, but its 

 summit is slightly hollowed out at the insertion 

 of the gynaiceum. The stamens often stick 

 togetlier by the sides of their glandular connec- 

 tives. It may happen that some of the outer- 

 most contain no pollen ; they are then only simple 

 petaloid scales. The seed may possess an aril 

 with two well-developed lateral lobes ; but this 

 organ is sometimes rudimentary. 



