Uvarla.] 4. ANONACEiE. 3 



Order 4. ANONACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, exstipulatc. Flowers 

 bisexual, rarely unisexual. Sepals and petals trimerous. Stamens 

 indeduite, the connective often produced. Ovaries numerous, 

 rarely solitary, free (in Anona connate) ; styles short or stigmas 

 sessile ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. Carpels I or more, sessile or 

 stalked, 1 or more seeded. Seeds large. Albumen ruminate. 



Stamens many. Anther cells concealed by the over- 

 lapping or produced connectives. 



Petals 2 seriate, imbricate in bud ... ... ... Uvakia. 



Petals valvate in bud, inner subsimilar or 0. 



Ovaries many ; peduncles hooked ... ... ... Artabotky;?, 



Ovules 2-6. 1 -seriate on veutal suture ... ... UxoNA. 



Ovules 1-2, basal. Polyalthia, 



Petals 2-seriate, valvate in bud, inner dissimilar 



conniving and arching over stamens ... ... Goniothalamus. 



Petals valvate in bed, inner similar but smaller ... Anona. 



Anther cells not concealed by the connectives. 



Petals valvate, inner largest. 0^'ules definite ... MlLiusA. 



Petals valvate. Ovules indefinite SaccopetALUM, 



Petals valvate, inner shortest. Ovules 2-4 OropheA. 



Petals imbricate, suberiual. Ovules 2-8 Bocagea. 



UVARIA, L. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves simple, stellately tomentose or glab- 

 rous. Flowers terminal or leaf-opposed ; cymose fascicled or solitary, 

 yellow, purple or brown. Sepals 3-valvate. Petals 6. Stamens 

 indefinite. Connective foliaceous or truncate-dilated. Ovaries inde- 

 finite, linear oblong, ovules many, 2-seriate. Ivipe carpels many, few 

 or 1-seedud. 



U. Narum, Wall. Cat. 6473; Fl. Br. I. 1. 50; U. luriJa, D. & G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 3 Naram lianal, M. Konkan ; North Kauara, in evergreen 

 forests. Fl. Nov. Fr. ripe Dec. 



ARTABOTRYS, P. Brown. 

 Scandent shrubs. Leaves shining evergreen. Flowers solitary 

 or fascicled on woody hooked peduncles. Sepals 3-valvate. Petals G, 

 2-seriate. Stamens numerous, connective truncate-dilated beyond 

 the anther cells. Torus plano-convex. Ovaries few or many, ovules 

 2 in each erect. Fruit a berry. 



Flowers and fruit glabrous A. odoratissimus. 



Flowers and fruit tomentose A. zeylanicus. 



A. odoratissimus, E,. Br. in Bot. Reg. 423 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 54; Kz. 

 For. Fl. Burm. 1. 31. Cultivated, but not indigenous, in the Bombay 

 Presidency. 



A zeylanicus, H.f. & T. Fl. Br. I. 1. 54; Bedd. Ic. PI. lud. Or. t. 48. 

 Common in the evergreen forests of North Kanara. tow ards the south ; 

 abundant in the forests rear the Gairsoppah Falls. Fl. Nov. Fruit 

 remains two years on stem. 



