ANONACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing and aromatic, eaves alternate, exstipulate, simple, 
quite entire. Flowers 2- rarely I1-sexual. Sepals 3, free or connate, usually valvate, 
rarely imbricate. Petals 6, hypogynous, 2-seriate, or the mner absent. (lowers dimerous 
in Disepalum.) Stamens many, rarely definite, hypogynous, closely packed on the torus ; 
filaments short or 0; anthers adnate, cells extrorse or sublateral, connective produced 
into an oblong, dilated or truncate head. Ovaries 1 or more, apocarpous, very rarely 
(Anona) syncarpous with distinct or agglutinated stigmas; style short or 0; ovules 1 
or more. Fruit of 1 or more, sessile or stalked, 1- or many-seeded, usually indehi- 
scent carpels. Seeds large; testa crustaceous or coriaceous; albumen dense, ruminate, 
often divided almost to the axis into several series of horizontal plates; embryo small 
or minute; cotyledons divaricating. 
Trine 1.—Uvariem. Petals 2-seriate, one or both series imbricate in 
bud. Stamens many, close-packed; their anther-cells 
concealed by the overlapping connectives (imperfectly 
concealed in some species of NSagerea). Ovaries 
indefinite. 
Sepals imbricate ; trees or shrubs. 
Flowers small, globular, scarcely opening ; often uni- 
sexual and from the older branches or trunk; ovules 
6 to 8, or indefinite. 
Trees ; flowers 1-sexual; ovules many ; torus 
conical or hemispheric . . 1. Stelechocarpus, 
Trees or shrubs ; flowers cat eertal’ or ‘Bemapo 
dite: torus flat=. g546-4<. . 2 Sagerea, 
Flowers large, elongate, Redman ieoaita: axillary or arise 
axillary; OVMles one OF two <.. os ke ee oe . . SD. Grefithia. 
Sepals valvate ; climbers. 
Flowers small, mostly hermaphrodite ; pt incurved ; : 
ovules 6 to 8; torus flat . .. . ba ei ee: oye 4a: Cyathostemmea. 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Garp. Catcutra Vor. IY. 
