58 IV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [ Vnona, 



g. VNONA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Flowers often solitary, axillary 

 terminal or leaf-opposed. Sepals 3, valvate. Fetals 6, valvate or open 

 in estivation, 2-seriate ; .3 inner sometimes absent. Torus flat or slightly 

 concave. Stamens cunea^e ; anther-ceUs linear, extrorse, top of connective 

 subglobose or truncate. Ovaries numerous ; style ovoid or oblong, recurved, 

 grooved ; ovules 2-8, 1-seriate (rarely sub-2-seriate). Ripe carpels many, 

 usually elongate and constricted between the seeds. Seeds few or many.^ 

 DiSTBiB. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 25. 



Sect. I. Desmos, H.f. & T. Petals 6. 

 * FUnwers axillary. 



1. W. ele^ans, Thwaiies Enwm. 398 ; erect, leaves narrow oblong-lanceo- 

 late long-acuminate glabrous, glaucous beneath, petals glabrous (when 

 mature), carpels deeply constricted between the seeds. Beddome Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 50. 



Forests of Hinidoon, Pattoo, Cetlos, Thwaites. 



A much branched shrub or tree; branches rugose, slender; young golden silky. 

 Leaves 3-54 ^7 k~^i i"- i petiole J in. Peduncle \-\ in., slender; bracts 1-2, minute. 

 Sepals 4 in., ovate, acute, glabrous. Outer petals l^-li in., oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, pubescent when very young only ; inner narrower, shorter. 



2. W. zeylanlca, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 132 ; erect, leaves narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate acute or obtusely taper-pointed coriaceous glabrous, petals 

 glabrous, carpels constricted between the seeds. Thwaites Enwm. 9 ; 

 Beddome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 74. 



Central province of Cetlou, ascending to 3000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A small glabrous shrub, 3-6 ft., bark grey, rugged ; . young buds pubescent. Leaves 

 5-8 by 1^-2 in., base acute ; petiole ^ in. Fhwers yellow-green, base red inside ; 

 peduncles 1-3, J in., bracts minute, deciduous, basal. Sepals small, oblong-lanceolate, 

 pubenilous. Petals 14 by J in., coriaceous, lanceolate, inner shorter and narrower. 

 Carpels stalked ; joints 1-4, ovoid. 



3. TT. Dunalil, Wall. Gat. 6425 ; climbing, leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous shining above glaucous beneath, petals glabrous, 

 carpels constricted between the seeds. H. /. <fc T. Fl. Ind. 131 {fioxl. the 

 Cancan plant). 



Forests of Chittagohq at Sitakund, M.f. & T. ; Penano, Wallich. 



A large glabrous climber, bark spotted white. Leaves 3— ij by ^2 in., with scattered 

 hairs on the midrib beneath, base rounded cordate or acute ; petiole iin. Flowers pale 

 yellow ; peduncle 2-flowered, pubescent ; bracts 2-3, basal, scaly. Sepals ovate, acute. 

 Petals 1 J in., lanceolate ; inner shorter, narrower. Ovules 4-6. Carpels of 1-3 ovoid 

 joints. — The Concan specimens referred here in Fl. Ind. are referable to U. discolor 

 var. Icemgata, having leaf-opposed peduncles. 



4 TT. pannosa, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Joum. Bot. iii. 207 ; erect, leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate glabrous above pubescent beneath, petals tomentose, 

 carpels ovoid not constricted between the seeds. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 135 ; 

 Beddome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 52. Uvaria mollis. Wall. Cat, 6475. 



Forests of Concan, Balzell ; and Tkatancor, Wight, &c. 



A tree; young parts puberulous. Leaves 2^-4 by f-l^ in., thin, pellucid-dotted, 

 base rounded or acute. Flowers brown-tomentose ; peduncles very short; bracts 1 or 

 more, scaly. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals 1^2 in., Jauoeolate, inner narrower and 

 shorter. Ovules 2-4. Carpels | in., subsessile, obtuse at both ends, pubescent, Seeth 

 1-3, large, shining. 



