86 FLORA INDICA. [Anonacea, 



Rami glaberrimi. Folia serrata, dunticiilata, carnosula, 3-5 poll, longa, li lata, 

 petiolo i-poU. Pedunculi solitarii vel siibfasciculati, basi squatnulis pluribus suf- 

 fulti, medio bracteola 1 semiamplexicaiili persistente. Alahastri globosi, piai magn. 

 Scfala ovata, inEecjualia. Petala 6, fere rotundata, coriacea. Baccct S. grandi- 

 flori, sed miuores, secus tomm sexpoUicarem spicatse. 



4. S. axillare (Bl. Bijdi-. 22, PI. Jav. Schiz. 14. t. 3) ; foliis lan- 

 ceolatis longe acuminatis basi rotundatis vel cuneatis, pedunculis ple- 

 rumque brevissimis, toro fvuctus filiformi abbreviate. 



Hab. In mont. Kliasia, alt. 4-5000 ped. !— (Fl. per tot. sest.) (». v.) 



DisTRiB. Java. 



Ramuli angulati, rufescentes, glabri. Folia coriacea, supeme nitida, subtus pallida, 

 margine integerrima vel distanter denticulata, 3 poll, longa, ^-J poll, lata, petiolo 

 ■|-poll. Pedunculi axillares, petiolo breviores, soepe brevissimi, sqiianiis rotundatis 

 inibricatis scariosia tecti. Flores coccinei vel lutescentes, diametro ^-poU. ^epala 

 rotundata, parva. Petala 9, triserialia, ovato-rotundata, interiora multa minora. 

 Torus fructas 1-2-pollicaris. Baccce numerosEB, substipitatEe, globosse. Semina 

 S, vel aborta solitaria. 



V. AN0NACEJ3. 



Mores hermapbroditi, rarius unisexuales. Sepala 3, hypogyna, aes- 

 tivatione plerumque valvata, basi saape coalita. Petala serie duplici 

 6, sestivatione valvata vel imbricata, rarissime serie interiore defici- 

 ente sepalis numero asqualia. Stamina indefinita, multiserialia, rarius 

 subdefinita; plerumque iiumerosissima, dense conferta. Filamenta 

 abbreviata. Antherae biloculares, conuectivo lato superne producto 

 sublateraliter vel extrorse aduatce, loculis remotis vfil contiguis, sub- 

 lateraliter vel extrorse dehiscentibus. Ooaria plurima, Mrius definita, 

 rarissime solitaria, 1-locularia, supra torum convexum, vel conca- 

 vum sessilia, interdum inter se subcohserentia. Ovula solitaria vel 

 bina e basi erecta, vel in sutura ventrali 1 vel pluva, vel'|ndefinita, 

 in Monodora parieti undiqne inserta, anatropa. 8^.gmata termina- 

 lia, libera vel inter se subooliDerentia. Carpella sesailia aut stipitata, 

 libera vel in fructum multilocularem coalita, sicca vel pulposa, indehis- 

 centia, rarius foUicularia. Semina solitaria vel numerosa. Albumen 

 copiosum, ruminatum. Embryo minutus.- — -Arbores vel frutices sape 

 scandentes vel sarmentod, plerumque aromatici ; foliis alternis integerri- 

 mis exdipulatis, floribus ierminalibus vel axillaribus, solitariis vel varie 

 congestis. 



This large and very natural Order is readily distinguishable from its near allies by 

 a combination of well marked characters. The ternary arrangement of the parts of 

 the perianth, the small, closely packed, extrorse, almost sessile anthers, the nume- 

 rous small ovaries, the distinct often stipitate fruits seated on a rounded torus, and 

 the ruminated albumen, characterize all the typical species, though one or other of 

 these characters is occasionally absent, or unavailing as a distinction. The ruminated 

 albumen, though universal in the Order, occurs also in Mijristicaceie, and to a small 

 extent in a few genera of Mcnispermacece. The ternary arrangement of the flower 



