22 BILLENIACEM. [Dillenia. 



sheathing petioles. Flowers 5-8, loosely fascicled on the 2-3-year-old- 

 "branches, about 1 in . in diam., appearing before the leavea, yellow, sweet- 

 scented. Sepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Petals oblong or oboYate. 

 Carpels 5. Fruit pendulous, about the size of a gooseberry. 



Sal forests of Eohilkhand, Oadh. and Gorakhpur. DiSTRiB. : Base 

 of Himalaya from Nepal to Assam, Bengal, Central Provinces, S. India, 

 Burma. The old leaves are shed during March and April, and the 

 flowers appear soon afterwards ; ripe fruit in May. The pleasantly acid 

 flower-buds and young fruit are eaten raw or cooked ; the ripe fruit is 

 also eaten. The old rough leaves are much used for polishing ivory, etc. 



No indigenous member of the allied family Magnoliacem is represented 

 in the Tipper Gangetic Plain, but the following well-known and exten- 

 sively cultivated tree should be mentioned : — Michelia Champaca, Linn. 

 8v. PI. 536; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 656 ; W. S( A. Prod. 6 ; tioyle III 58; 

 Hk. f. ^ T. Fl. Ind. 79 ; F. B. 1. i. 42 ; Brand. For. Fl. 3 ; Watt E. D. 

 King in Ann. B. Bot. Gard. Calc. Hi, jpart 2, 216. TheiChampak tree. 

 Vern. Champa. A tall handsome evergreen tree with sweet-scented 

 yellow flowers. It has been planted in many parts of the area, espe- 

 cially near temples. On the Himalaya it is found up to 5,400 feet. 

 Believed to be indigenous in the forests of the Straits Settlements,, 

 and in Java. It flowers during the hot and rainy seasons. The beauti- 

 fully mottled heart wood is much valued. 



III.-ANONACEJE. 



Teees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 simple, entire. Flowers usually 2-sesnal. Sepals 8, free or connate, 

 nsnally valvate. Petals 6, in 2 series, or the inner absent. /Stamens 

 usually many, closely packed on the torus ; filaments short or 0, 

 anthers adnate, connective produced into an oblong dilated or 

 truncate head. Ovaries usually indefinite, apocarpous (syncarpous in 

 Anona) ; style short or ; ovules 1 or more. Fruit of 1 or more 

 sessile or stalked 1- or many-seeded usually indehiscent carpels. Seeds 

 large, with dense ruminate albumen ; embryo small. Species nearly 

 all tropical, often aromatic. 



Artabotrys odoratissima, E. Br., a glabrous evergreen shrub with 

 strongly scented yellow flowers, is cultivated in many gardens in 

 Northern India. It is indigenous in S. India and Ceylon. 

 Outer petals much longer than the sepals, 



Eipe carpels distinct, 1-seeded . . . .1. Poltalthia. 

 Eipo carpels connate in a fleshy many -seeded 



fruit 2. Anona. 



Outer petals small and like the sepals. 



Inner petals flat, ovules 1 or 2 . . . .3. Miliusa. 

 Inner petals saccate at the base, ovules 6 or 



more 4. Saccopetalum,. 



