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carpous, very rarely (Anona~) syncarpous with distinct or agglutinated 

 stigmas, style short or ; ovules 1 or more. Fruit of 1 or more, sessile 

 or stalked, 1- or many-seeded, usually indekiscent carpels. Seeds 

 large ; testa crustaceous or coriaceous ; albumen dense, ruminate, often 

 divided almost to the axis into several series of horizontal plates ; 

 embryo small or minute, cotyledons divaricating. — Distrib. Tropics of 

 the Old World chiefly ; genera about 45 with 500 or 600 species. 

 Tribe I. Uvari^. Petals 2-seriate, one or both 

 series imbricate in bud. Stamens many, close- 

 packed ; their anther-cells concealed by the 

 overlapping connectives. Ovaries indefinite. 

 Sepals imbricate ; trees or shrubs. 



Flowers small, globular, scarcely open- 

 ing ; often uni-sexual and from the 

 older branches or trunk ; ovules 6 to 

 8, or indefinite. 



Trees ; flowers 1 -sexual ; ovules 

 many ; torus conical or hemis- 

 pheric ... ... ... 1. Stelechocarptis. 



Trees or shrubs ; flowers unisexual 

 or hermaphrodite ; ovules 6 to 8 ; 

 torus flat ... ... 2. Sageraea. 



Sepals valvate ; climbers. 



Flowers small, mostly hermaphrodite ; 

 petals incurved, ovules 6 to 8; torus 

 flat ... ... ... 3. Cyathostemma. 



Flowers usually large and from the leafy «. 



branches, petals spreading ; torus flat. 



Flowers 2-scxual ; ovules many ... 4. Uvaria, 

 Flowers 1- or 2-sexual ; ovules so- 

 litary, rarely 2 ... ... 5. Ellipeia. 



Tribe II. Unonej;. Petals valvate or open in bud, 

 spreading in flower, flat, or concave at the base 

 only ; inner subsimilar or 0. Stamens many, 

 close-packed ; their anthei'-cells concealed by 

 the overlapping connectives. Ovaries indefi- 

 nite. 



Flowers trimerous. 



Petals conniving at the concave base and covering the stamens 

 and ovaries. 



Ovaries 1-3, many-ovuled ; pedun- 

 cles not hooked ... ... 6. Cynthocalyx. 



