Uvaria,] 



4. ANONlCEiE. 



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1. UVARIA, L. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves simple, stellately tomentose or glabrous. 

 Flowers terminal or leaf -opposed, cymose fascicled or solitary, yellow, 

 purple or brown. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6. Stamens indefinite, 

 connective foliaceous or truncate-dilated. Ovaries indefinite, linear 

 oblong, ovules many, 2-seriate. Ripe carpels many, few, or 1-seeded. 



Carpels small. Seeds in a single row. Peduncles 



slender ... 1. Z7. Narum, 



Carpals larger. Seeds in a double row. Peduncles 



thick, angular 2. U. Hoolceri, 



1. U. KTarum, Wall. Cat. 6473 ; Fl. Z7. lurida, D. k G. Bomb. Fl. 3. 

 Naram panels Rbeede Hort. Mai. 2. t. 10. 



Western Peninsula on tbe ghats from the Konkan southwards, Ceylon 

 up to 4000 feet in the Central Provinces. A large woody climber. A 

 greenish odorous oil is obtained from the roots, used in native medicine. 



2. U. Hookeri, King. Ann. Calcutt, Bot. Gard. Vol. 4. p. 28. IT, Narum, 

 Wall. Var. macrophylla. Fl. Br. 1. 1. 50, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. 3. 



A large climber. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute or long acuminate, 6-9 

 in. long, by 1 '5 — 2*20 in. broad. Flowers similar but larger (2 in. across) 

 than those of V. Narum. Carpels sausage -shaped, larger than those of 

 U. Narum and on thicker, angular pedicels. Seeds in 2 rows of about 

 6 each. This species is united in the Fl. Br. I. to U. Narum, Wall., as 

 Var. macrophylla, but Sir G. King in his ' Anonaceae of British India ' 

 considers it to be distinct and has named it IT. Hookeri, It is rather 

 common in some of the evergreen forests of the N. K^nara and Konkan 

 Ghats. Fl. Fr. Mar.-May. 



2. ARTABOTRYS, R. Brown. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves shining, evergreen. Flowers solitary or 

 fascicled on woody hooked peduncles. Sepals 3^ valvate. Petals 6, 

 2-seriate, bases concave connivent, limb spreading. Stamens numer- 

 ousj connective truncate-dilated, produced beyond the anther cells. 

 Torus plano-convex. Ovaries few or many, style oblong or columnar, 

 ovules 2 in each, erect. Fruit a berry. 



Flowers and fruit glabrous 1. A. odoratissimus. 



Flowers and fruit tomentose 2,-4. zeylanicus, 



L A. odoratttssimus, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. 423 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 54 ; Kz. 

 For. Fl. Burm. 1. 31, Cultivated, but not indigenous, in the Bombay 

 Presidency. 



2. A. zeylaiDiouB H. f. & T. Fl. Br. I. 1, 54 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 48. 



