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fleshy, undulated on the margins : ovaries several, imbricated into a 
cone, beak ensiform villous: catpels densely imbricated into a eylin- 
dric cone, tubercled externally, beak wrinkled, laterally compressed : 
flowers large white, fragtant, wrapped fn several very deciduous 
spathes. 
ee near Chittagong. Khasia hills. Flowering in April and, 
hay. 7 
ORDER IV. ANONACEZ.: 
Trees or shrubs with alternate simple, almost always ‘entire’ 
exstipulate leaves: sepals 3-4, persistent, generally partly co- 
hering: petals 6, hypogynous, in two series, occasionally united, 
and forming a monopetalous corolla: estivation valvate:. sta- 
‘mens indefinite, or very rarely definite, closely: packed together~ 
on a torus: anthers adnate, extrorse, With a large 4-angled con- 
nective :‘ fruit consisting of numerous carpels, ‘succulent or dry, 
1 or many-séeded, distinct, or concrete into a fleshy mass :| 
ovules solitary :. seeds sometimes arillate: testa brittle: embryo. 
situated at the base of hard fleshy ruminated albumen: flowers’ 
green or brown, axillary, solitary or 2-3 together, shorter’ than 
the leaves. ! 
GENUS I. LOBOCARPUS. 
._Polyandria Polygynia. Ser: Syst: 
Dervis. From Lobos, a lobe, or division, and Carpos, fruit. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx tubular, 3-cleft, persistent, enclosing the- 
fruit: carpels 5, 1-celled, united into a 5-celled oblong eartila-, 
ginous fruit, shortly 5-lobed at the apex: cells 2-seeded. 
 L. Canvorrzanus, (W. § 4.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 7. 
Srec. Cuan, Leaves-short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminated, gla- 
brous: flowers 1-3-together, small, nearly sessile in the axils of the 
leaves: . persistent Aoral-eovering exterhally pubescent with 2-3 
lanceolate bracts at its base. 
Peninsula, 
