124 FLOiiA INDICA. [AnonacBiB. 



Hab. In penins. Malayana ad Malacca, Griffith! — {v. s.) 



Arhor. Hamuli vix rugulosi, cortice fusco, putescentea, demum glabrati, juniores 

 cum omnibus partibus novellis dense ferrugineo-tomentosi. Folia 5-7 poll, longa, 

 l-|-2 lata, petiolo vix 2 lineas longo, coriacea, rigida, supra glabra, lucida, subtus 

 pallida, fusca, petiolis nervisque tomentosis. Fedunculi \ poll, longi, prope basin 

 squamulis mimitis bracteolati, tomentosi. Se])ala ovata. Fetala l-li-pollicaria, 

 fulvo-tomentosa. Ovaria denscferrugineo-strigosa. Carpella 2 poU. longa, IcEvia, 

 glabra. Semina oblonga, testa spongiosa, miiserialia. 



We have only seen two or tbree detached carpels, and have not been able to find 

 any arillus. 



3. H. oxyantha (H.f. et T.) ; foliis ovalibus vel oblongis abrupte 

 acuminatis utrinque glaberrimis, iioribus axiUaribus fasciculatis. — Uva- 

 ria oxyantha, Wall. Cat. 6478 ! 



Hab. In penins. Malayana ad Singapur, Wall.! — (». s. in Herb. 

 Linn. Soc.) 



Arhor. Famtili validi, rugosi, cortice fiisco, glabri, juniores pnbenili. Folia 7-8 

 poll, longa, 2^-3^ lata, pet. -^-poll., coriacea, supra nitida, subtus glauca. Fedun- 

 culi peliolum pauUo superantes, adpresse puberuli. Sepala connata, late ovata, de- 

 mum revoluta, dorso puberula. Fetala griseo-puberula, l:j— 1^ poll. longa, siccitate 

 dorso costata. Stamina et ovaria prioris. 



12. XYLOPIA, L. 



CcElocline, Alfh. DC. Mem. Patonia, Wight, III. i. 18. 



Sejiala 3, basi (saepe alte) connata. Petala 6, aestivatione biseriatim 

 valvata, elongata, subeequilonga, crasse coriacea ; exteiiora concava, 

 marginibus planis ; interiora basi tantum excavata, supevne triquetra. 

 Torus conioiis, interne excavatus et ovaria inclndens, externe stamina 

 gerens. Stamina indefinita, oblonga, antherarum locnlis dorsalibus re- 

 motis, connectivo tnincato capitate. Ovaria deiinita, 1-5, serioea, in- 

 tra torum abscondita, oblonga vel ovalia, stylis elongatis exsertis in 

 conum conniventibus apice clavatis. Ouuln 2-6, secus suturam ventra- 

 lem horizontalia. — Arbores /orsaw ]tniniles,foliosa, rarnoscB, foliis coria- 

 ceis lucidis, floribus axillaribu.^ solitariis vel fasciculatis, alabastris Imigis 

 triqnetris. 



The genus Xijlopia was origiuaUy founded by Liunfcus, but its characters were re- 

 modelled by St. Hilaire, who tirst established it firmly, as we now recognize it, distin- 

 guishing it by the shape of the petals, the position of the ovules, the peculiar hol- 

 low torus, and the dehiscence of the fruit. Von Martins distinguishes it by the same 

 characters, while A. Richard, in the ' Fl. Cubse,' depending principally on the torus, 

 omits all mention of the dehiscence of the fruit, and unites with it Alph. De CandoUe's 

 Ccelocline and Ilahzelia. The latter genus we have already alluded to. Ceelocline, 

 which has the same torus and ovary as Xylopia, appears distinguished by less im- 

 portant characters, as the dehiscence of the fruit sometimes seems to occur at a very 

 late period, and the presence of arillus is perhaps of no great moment in the Order. 

 Of the Indian species described below, the only one which is known in fruit has the 

 arillus of Xylopia ; we are therefore disposed for the present to follow A. Richard in 

 retaining that genus entire, as all the species are very similar in habit, and the flowers 

 of the Asiatic ones are in no way distinguishable from those of the American ones. 

 If the fruit of any of the Indian plants described below be found to differ from that 

 of the typical species of the genus, the difference will in all probability be regarded 



