138 PLOEA INDICA. [Anonacea. 



species only being known from tropical West Africa, and none from America. It 

 occurs in about equal proportions in continental India and the Eastern Archipelago, 

 and one extends into south China. One species is very extensively cultivated as an 

 ornamental shrub in gardens throughout the East. 



1. A. odoratissimus (E. Br. in Bot. Keg. t. 438, non Blume); 

 foliis obloTigo-lanoeolatis glabris utrinque acutis, pedunculis 1-3-floris, 

 petalis fere aaquilatis, lamina plana oblongo-lanceolata, ovariis paucis 

 glabris, oai'pellis oblongis obtuse acuminatis. — Wall. Cat. 6415!; W. et 

 A. Prod. i. 10. A. hamatus, Blume, Ft. Jav. Anon. 60. t. 39, 31 C. 

 Anona hamata, Bun. Anon. 106. t. 37 ; BG. Syst. i. 491, Frod. i. 90. 

 XJvaria odoratissima {et U. nncata), Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 666 ! 



Hab. In Zeylania et Malaya forsan indigenus, in hortis saepissime 

 cultus. — (Fl. per totum annum.) {v. v. cult.) 



DiSTEiB. Java, Blume. 



Frutex elegans, ramulis sarmentosis, cortice albido-punctato. Folia 2—8 poll. 

 longa, 1-2 lata, in acumen longum obtusiusculum producta, tenuiter coriacea. Pe- 

 tala i-lf poU. longa, fusco-sericea, demum glabra. Carpella 2-2^ poU. longa. 



We are obliged to differ in opinion from Blume as to the plant originally described 

 by Brown as A. odoratissimus, which appears to us not to be the species figured in 

 the ' Flora Javse ' under that name, but that which Blume has figured and described 

 as A. hamatus. As the plant figured in the 'Botanical Register' was introduced 

 into England from Calcutta, it must necessarily be that cultivated in the garden 

 there. Now we find no indication in Roxburgh or Wallich of the cultivation of any 

 species but one iu continental India ; Wight and Arnott notice only one from the 

 Peninsula, and we find only one in the Hookerian Herbarium from Ceylon. Blume's 

 A. odoratissimus is therefore entirely an eastern form, of which we shall subjoin a 

 description*, as it will probably occur in the Malayan Peninsula, as well as in the 

 Archipelago. Mr. Brown is, we believe, right in referring all the species enumerated 

 by Dunal and DC. to that now described. 



3. A. Zeylanicus (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis acutis vel obtuse 

 acuminatis utrinque glabris, pedunculis plurifloris, petalis fere Eequilatis, 

 lamina plana lanoeolata dense fulvo-tomentosa, ovariis nuinerosis tomen- 

 tosis, carpellis obovatis mucronatis. 



Hab. In Zeylanise sylvis, Wallter! Champion! Tliwaites!- — {v. s.) 



Frutex alte scandens, cortice ruguloso, bruuneo, glabro, ramulorum juniorum fusco- 

 pubescente. Folia lanceolata vel oblonga, acuminata, subtus pallida, nervis crebris 



* A. Blumei (H.f. et \^ ; foliis oblongis obtuse acuminatis, pedunculis unifloris, 

 petalis exterioribus ceteris duplo latioribus lamina ovata, ovariis 8-10 villosulis, 

 carpellis ovalibus vol subglobosis abrupte mucronatis. — A. odoratissimus, Blume, 

 M. Jav. Anon. 59. t. 28, 31 B, excl. sijn. A. hamatus, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 iii. 257. 



Hab. In Java, Blume ; in insula Hongkong, Champon! — (». s) 



Frutex elegans, deusus, glaber, ramuhs sarmentosis, cortice ciuereo vel atro-fusco. 

 Folia 3-8 poll, longa, 1^—3 lata, utrinque glabra, nitida, coriacea. Sepala ovata, 

 acuta, parce strigosa. Fetala fusco-sericea; exteriora f poll, longa, lamina ovali- 

 oblonga, obtusa; inieriora lineari-oblonga, paullo breviora. Carpella glabra, 1-1-J- 

 poUicaria, obtuse rostrata. 



This appears to differ from A. odoratissimus in the shape and texture of the leaves, 

 and in the shorter and broader petals, and more rounded fruit. 



