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A. Petals lanceolate or elliptic. 



1. A. zeylanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 4S ; Ann. 

 iv. p. 43 t. 53. 



An enormous climber. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, quite glabrous, shiuing, 3-6 in. 

 1 >ng. Pednnclea flat, bearing 1-4 fl. 

 Petals coriaceous, brownish, lanceolate, 

 densely tomentose, the outer 1} in. long, 

 tip inner a little smaller. Ripe car- 

 1 els sessile, ribbed, mucronate. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, 

 from Kanara southwards. Fl. November. 

 i ley Ion. 



2. A. odoratissimus, R. Brown ; 

 Ann. iv. t. 55. 



A large scrambling glabrous shrub. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, 1 G in. long. Fl. solitary or 

 in pairs, greenish yellow, exceedingly 

 fragrant, petals acute, minutely seri- 

 es' ms, 1 ] 1 .'. in. long. Ovaries glabrous. 

 Ripe carpels ,S-15, pyriform, apiculate, 

 narrowed into a short stalk, l^-lo in. 

 long, yellow. 



Indigenous in Tenasserim i Knrz. F. Fl. 

 i. 31) and Ceylon, cultivated throughout 

 India. Fl. H. and R. S. 3. A. Kurzii, Hook, 

 fil. & Thorns. : Ann. iv. t. 17. a straggling 

 or climbing deciduous shrub in the Eng 

 forests of the [rawaddi valley i Nyand, Dpper 

 Burma) Branohlets, petioles, and nerves en the underside of leaves pubescent, petals 



velvety obtuse ,' in. I. A. crassifolius, Book. fil. & Tl is.; Aim. iv. t. 51 ; Kurz, F. 



Fl. i. 80, an evergreen » ly climber in Tenasserim. 



B. Petals fleshy, cyliodric clavate or triquetrous. 



5. A. suaveolens, Blume; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 32; Ann. iv. t. 61. 



A largo climber. Leaves shining, acuminate, "2 I in. long. Fl. fasciculate, 

 on recurved flat wocdy peduncles, which sometimes lengthen out too inches. 

 Petals fleshy, toinent so. '. \ in., blade cylindric to clavate. Ripe carpels few, 

 ellipsoid, glabrous, [ in. long. 



silhei, Chittogong, Burma, Malaj Peninsula. Fl. U.S. ii. a. burmanicus, A . 1>. ('.: 

 Ann. iv. t. 62, Bfanipnr, Burma. Leaves I 7 in., rusty pubescent beneath, secondary 

 leaves 8 I" pair, prominent, joined by distinct intramarginal v. 'ins, petals uarrow- 



linear I in. I"iiu'. 7. A. speciosus, Km/: Ann. iv. t. 67, Andaman*, with yellon il. 

 I A in. long. 



Cyathooalyx zeylanicus, Champion; Bedd. [c. PL [nd. Or. t. 17: Ann. iv. t. 42, is a 



i r sommon in il vergreen forests of the Western Ghats, from Smith Kanara 



southwards, glabrous, calyx an obscurelj S-toothed truncate cup. Petals 6, nearh 

 equal, base concave, closing over stamens and ovaries. Ovary solitary, glabrous, with 

 numerous ovules. K i | »• carpel irregularly ovoid, I', 8 in. 1"hl'. subsessile. '-'. C. 



martabanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Ann. iv. i. 18, a middle-sized tr f Martaban and 



Tenasserim, similar, bul wit 1> a deeply 8-clefl calyx. 



Anaxagorea, luzoniensis, A. 1 1 ra j : Ann. I 118a s\ n. A. teytanica, Hook. fil.&Tl s.; 



Bedd. le. PL ind. Or. t, 16, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon, Mnlaj Peninsula and Archipel- 

 ago, is>h -mall evergreen shrub, entirely glabrous. Leaves membranous, with pellucid 

 das. Fl. white, j in. diam., solitary on short pedicels, ovaries few, glabrous. K i |n. 

 carpels clavate, narrowed into o thick stalk, I 'J a led, dehiscing, - valved. 



Fig. 7.— Artabotrys zeylanicus, Hook. 

 fil. & Thorns. Leaf, fl., fr. 



