80 IT. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



concave ; inner narrower, 3-gonous. Stamens many, inner imperfect ; anther-cells sep- 

 tate ; tipof connective rounded. Owar?/ sunk in the torus, pilose; style short; ovules 

 many. 



14. X. elliptica, Maingaymss. ; branches glabrous, leaves small elliptic 

 obtuse membranous glabrous, tip rounded, nerves faint reticulate, flowers 

 small solitary erect pubescent, sfepals subacute united to the middle, ovaries ' 



1 — o. 



Malacca, M'aingay. 



A lofty tree ; trunk thick ; hranches glahrouB, almost Hack ; branchlets pubescent. 

 Leaves 1^-2 by lJ-14 in., base obtuse or acute, pale on both surfaces, browner beneath ;■ 

 petiole J in., pubenilous. Flowers 4-| in., sleniier; peduncle half as long or shorter, 

 and calyx rusty-pubescent ; bratcs median, minute. Petals pale brown-tomenlose ; 

 outer linear subulate, from a rather broad base, concave ; inner trigonous, base exca- 

 vated. Stamens minute. Ovaries sunk in the deeply urceolate torus, hidden amongst 

 long white hairs ; ovules 4-6. 



19. laXXiXUSA, Leschenault. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers 1-2-sexual, green or red, axillary or extra- 

 axillary, solitary fascicled or cymose. Sepals Z, small, valvate. Petals 6, 

 valvate in 2 series; outer smaller, like the sepals; inner cohering when 

 young by the margins, at length free. Torus elongated, cylindric. Stamens- 

 definite or indefinite; anthers subdidymous; cells contiguous, ovoid, ex- 

 trorse; connective hardly apiculate. . Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong; 

 style oblong or very short ; ovules 1-2. rarely 3-4. Ripe carpels globose or' 

 oblong, 1- many-seeded. — Disteib. Species 7 ; all Indian. 



1. nx. macrocarpa, E. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 150; leaves lanceolate or 

 narrow-oblong long-acuminate glabrous shining above, flowers bisexual? 

 solitary or in leafy cymes, sepals aaid outer petals large ovate \ in., carpels 

 glabrous long-stalked. 



SiKKlM-HlMALAYA ; KhASIA HILLS, SimOUS. 



A small tree ; branches glabrous. Leaves 4-9 by 1^-2^ in., thin, coriaceons, pale 

 beneath ; petiole ^-J in. Flowers subterminal or leaf-opposed ; peduncle 2-3 in., olavate' 

 upwards. Outer petals OMaXe, glabrous, granulate outside, edges and inside appressed-" 

 pubescent ; inner | in., lengthening much after expansion, glabrous, ciliate. Ovariexi 

 oblong, silky ; style oblong, glabrous ; ovules 1-2. Carpels 1 in., dark-purple, fleshy ; 

 stalk as long, 1-seeded, or 2-seeded and twice as broad. — Differs from its congeners in 

 the large sepals and outer petals ; inner petals very small in bud. 



2. BT. Indlca, Lesch. in A. BG. Mem. Soc. Genev. v. 36 ; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-cordate obtuse or lanceolate and acute or acuminate glabrous or pubes- 

 cent beneath, flowers 2-sexual axillary solitary, inner petals oblong subacute, 

 carpels pisiform subsessUe. W. & A. Prodr. 10 ; Wall. Gat. 6433 : H. /. &■ 

 T.FI. Ind. 148; Meddome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 85. M. montana,. Gardner ex 

 Fl. Ind. I.e. ; Thwaites Enum. 4; Beddame I.e. t. 84. 



Malabab, Maisoh, and Ceylow, in the Central Province, Gardner 



A much branched very variable shrub ; branches strigose, tome'ntose 6r glabrate. 



Leaves l-2i by f-li m base generally oblique, coriaceous ; petiole obsolete. Flowers 



greenish, purple near the base; pedicel J^-f in., slender; bracteolee several, basal. 



Outer petaU equalhng or 2-3 times exceeding the oblong subacute inner. Ovaries 



1-2-ovuled. 

 Vae. 1. tornenfom,- branchlets and leaves beneath tomentose, carpels pubescent ■ 

 Vak. 2. atngose; branchlets and leaves beneath sfrigose, carpels glabrous. 

 Yak. 3. montana; branchlets and much smaller leaves glabrous. ' 



