Arfabotry^] 



IV. ANONACEJ] 



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A. Petals lanceolate or elliptic. 



1. A. zeylanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 48 : Ann. 

 iv. p. 43 t. 53. 



An enormous climber. Leaves coria- 

 ceouSj quite glabrouSj shining, 3-6 in. 

 long. Peduncles flat, bearing 1-4 fl. 

 Petals coriaceouSj brownish, lanceolate, 

 densely tomentose, the outer 1\ in. long, 

 the inner a little smaller. Pipe car- 

 l els sessile, ribbed, mucronate. 



Evergx-een forests of the Western Ghats, 

 fiom Kanara southwards. Fl. November. 

 Ceylon. 



2. A. odoratissimus, R. Brown; 

 Ann. iv. t. 55. 



A large scrambling glabrous shrub. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, 4-6 in. long. PL solitary or 

 in pairs, greenish yellow, exceedingly 

 fragrant, petals acute, minutely seri- 

 ceous, 1|-1^ in. long. Ovaries glabrous. 

 Pipe carpels 8-15, pyriform, apiculate, 

 narrowed into a short stalk, ll-H in. 

 long, yellow. 



Indigenous in Tenasserhn (Kui'z, F. PI. 

 i. 31) and Ceylon, cultivated throughout 

 India. Fl. H. and R. S. 3. A. Kurzii, Hook, 

 ill. & Thorns. ; Ann. iv. t. 47, a straggling 

 or climbing deciduous shrub in the Eng 

 forests of the Irawaddi valley (Nyane^ Upper 

 Burma) Bi'anchlets, petioles, and nerves en the underside of leaves pubescent, petals 

 •\ elvety obtuse | in. 4. A. crassifolius, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; Ann. iv. t. 51 ; Kurz, F. 

 Fl. i. 30, an evergreen woody climber in Tenasserim. 



B. Petals fleshy, cylindxic clavate or triquetrous. 



5. A. suaveolens, Blume; Kux^z, E. M. i. 32; Ann. iv. t. 61. 



A large climber. Leaves shining, acuminate, 2-4 in. long. Fl. fasciculate, 

 on recurved flat woody peduncles, which sometimes lengthen out to 5 inches. 

 Petals fleshy, tomentose, J-|- in., blade cylindric to clavate. Bipe carpels few, 

 ellipsoid, glabrous, \ in. long. 



Silhet, Chittagong, Burma, Malay Peninsula. Fl. B. S. 6. A. Tbuxmamcus, A. D. C. ; 

 Ann. iv. t. 62, Manipur, Burma. Leaves 4-7 in., rusty pubescent beneath, secondary 

 nerves 8-10 pair, prominent, joined by distinct intramarginal veins, petals narrow- 

 linear 1 in. long. 7. A. speciosus, Kurz; Ann. iv. t. 57, Andamans, with yellow fl. 

 IJ in. long. 



Cyatli03al3rx zeylanicus, Champion ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t, 47 ; Ann. iv. t. 42, is a 

 tree common in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, from South Kanara 

 southwards, glabrous, calyx an obscurely «S-toothed truncate cup. Petals 6, nearly 

 equal, base concave, closing over stamens and ovaries. Ovary solitary, glabrous, with 

 numerous ovules. Ripe carpel irregularly ovoid, lJ-3 in. long, subsessile. 2. C. 

 martabanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; Ann. iv. t. 43, a middle-sizied tree of Martaban and 

 Tenasserim, similar, but with a deeply 8-cleft calyx. 



Anaxagorea, Ittzoniensis, A. Gray ; Ann, t. 118a.— Syn. A. zeylmiica^ Hook. ill. & Thorns. \ 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Oi*. t. 46, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipel- 

 ago, is a small evergreen shrub, entirely glabrous. Leaves membranous, with pellucid 

 dots. Fl. white, | in. diam., solitary on short pedicels, ovaries few, glabrous. Kipe 

 carpels clavate, narrowed into a thick stalk, 1-2 seeded, dehiscing, 2 valved. 



Fig. 7. — Artabotrys zey] aniens, Hook. 

 ill. & Thorns. Leaf, ii., fr. 



