27J NATUBAl mSTOJ^Y OF PLAXT^. 



GENERA. 



I. ANONEtE. 



§ I. UVARIE^. 



1. Uvaria L. — Flowers hermaphrodite more rarely polygamous 

 or dioecious ; receptacle convex, more or less elongated. Sepals 8, 

 free or connate to a variable height, usually valvate. Petals 6, free 

 or connate at the base, equal or unequal, 2-seriate, imbricated ; 

 sometimes the inner or outer set finally valvate. Stamens cc, linear 

 or flattened ; connective dilated above the linear extrorse longi- 

 tudinally dehiscing cells, truncate or ovate, more rarely subfoliaceous. 

 Carpels oo, more rarely few, grooved internally ; style continuous 

 truncate, apex stigmatiferous entire or 2-fid ; ovules oc, more rarely 1, 

 2, ventral, in two rows, horizontal or subascending ; micropyle lateral 

 or extrorse and inferior. Berries of variable form, entire or more or 

 less constricted between the seeds, sessile or stipitate, go- or, by 

 abortion, 1-seeded. Seeds subhorizontal ; aril scanty or ; albumen 

 ruminate. — Small trees or shrubs, often aromatic, usually sarmen- 

 tose, glabrous, or more frequently covered with simple or stellate 

 down ; leaves alternate simple exstipulate ; flowers arising before 

 or after the leaves, axillary or lateral, more frequently terminal or 

 leaf-opposed, solitar}^ or cymose {Asia, Africa, tropical Australia, 

 North and Central America). See p. 187. 



2. Spliserothalamus Hook. F. — " Sepals 3, imbricated. Petals 6 

 (imbricated?) spathulate. Stamens go; connective dilated and truncate 

 above the cells. Torus globose. Carpels co ; style very short obtuse ; 

 ovules (2?) ventral. — A shrub; leaves subsessile (1 J ft. long), cor- 

 date at the base ; flowers large (like orange-blossom)" {Borneo). 

 See p. 1 94. 



3. Sagersea Dalz.— Sepals 3, imbricated. Petals 6, orbicular con- 

 cave subequal, imbricated. Stamens few; fertile, subdefinite (6-15) 

 short fleshy laterally compressed ; connective with an expanded and 



