46 | ANONACE. [ Miliusa. 
~ eelled oval or globular fruit.—Trees or shrubs, of American origin, 
with solitary, terminal, or leaf-opposed flowers. 
* Fruits degen 
Leaves usually blunt; fruit with prominent geese areoles A, squamosa. 
Leaves acuminate, lang areoles of fruit not or hardly project 
ing A, reticulata. 
* * Fruits very large, muricate ; all parts glabrous . A. muricata, 
1. A. squamosa, L.; H. f. Ind. Fl. i. 78; Brand. For. Fl. 6.—A 
small tree, up to 20 feet high, leafless in the ‘HS., the young shoots 
slightly pubescent; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, usually blunt, 
while young pubescent, soon turning glabrous ; peduncles 1- flowered, 
usually solitary ; flowers yellowish-green ; exterior petals narrow- 
lanceolate, blunt, concave at base, 3-sided near the apex, connivent ; 
inner ones scarcely any ; fruit ovoid, the size of a shal fist, elau- 
cous green, with prominent convex areoles. 
Has.—Cultivated all over Burma; ona large scale planted in the Prome 
District.—Fl. March; Fr. R.8.—1. —S8. = w CaS. 
2. A. reticulata, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 78.—Aw-za.—A small 
ite up to 25 ft. high, leafless in the HS. ; leaves (sche agar 
uminate, glabrous, minutely pellucid-dotted ; peduncles lateral, 
ook by 2-4 together ; flowers yellowish-green ; peuslor petals 
oblong, connivent, 3-si ded towards the apex, convex below, the 
inner ones minute, smaller ie the calyx, blunt; fruit irregularly 
globose, umbilicate at base, areolate, the areoles 5-angular, flat, not 
or hardly projecting. 
sori and there ingot in native gardens and villages of Pegu and 
S.; Fr. B.S 
Tenasserim.—. 
3. A. muricata, L.—An evergreen small tree, all parts glabrous ; 
pani ala acute or apiculate, toe flowers yellowish 
green, —— or by pairs, on axillary peduncles ; the outer fare) 
co minate, the inner ones blunt; fruits green, varying in 
size from 4 to 2 ft. length, covered by appressed fleshy thick 
prickles. 
Han.—Cultivated in villages of Tenasserim.—Fr. Close of R. S.—s. 
MILIUSA, Lesch. 
. . Flowers usually dioecious. Sepals 3, minute, valvate, usually 
almost conform with the sepals, the inner ones much longer, erect- 
_ connivent, sometimes cohering. Stamens few or numerous, the 
connective hardly apiculate. Torus cylindrical. Ovaries numerous, 
_ with 1 or 2, rarely more ventral ovules in each; style oblong. 
reflexed. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 series, the outer ones minute and 
= Borriesglobular or —— with solitary or clustered flowers. 
