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DILLENIACE2E. 
variously. Carpels indefinite, typically free, but in Wormia cohering, 
1-celled with 1 or more ovules ; styles divergent ; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit dry, follicular or capsular. Seeds one or few, thick, arillate. — 
Trees or shrubs, often climbers, with alternate entire leaves, varied 
inflorescence, showy yellow or white hermaphrodite or polygamous 
flowers. Distrib. Species 200, spread round the world in or near 
the tropics ; also temperate Australian. 
1. WORM I A, Rottb. 
Sepals 5, round, leathery. Petals 5, broad, obtuse. Stamens nearly 
free ; filaments not dilated at apex ; anthers long, dehiscing by terminal 
pores. Carpels 5-10, in our plant joined by their inner borders ; 
ovules many ; styles spur-like, divergent ; stigmas capitate. Fruit 
dry, follicular. — Trees with large entire alternate closely penninerved 
leaves, petioles with deciduous wings and flowers in terminal racemes 
or panicles. Distrib. Trop. Asia, reaching Australia. Species 10. 
1. W. ferruginea, Baill. Adans. vi. 268, vii. 343. An erect tree, 
30-40 feet high ; young branches silky. Leaves oblong, usually ^-1 ft. 
long, rigidly coriaceous, at first silky, becoming glabrous above, thinly 
grey-tomentose beneath, with close spreading raised veins and a silky 
midrib. Racemes |~1 ft. long ; pedicels densely pilose. Sepals ^in. long, 
round ; 3 outer silky ; 2 inner glabrous. Petals whitish, oblong, twice 
length of sepals. Carpels 7-10, connate in a round coriaceous head into 
a syncarpous fruit with axile placentation. Wright in Trans. Boy. 
Irish Acad. xxiv. 573. t. 27. 
Mountain woods of the Seychelles, Bouton ! Perville ! Wright ! Horne t 
Endemic. Bois rouge , hois marre blanc. 
Order III. ANONACEiE. 
Sepals 3, deltoid, persistent, distinct or connate. Petals usually in 
two rows of 3 each, usually valvate, the inner row sometimes absent. 
Stamens many, distinct, crowded on a prominent torus; filaments short 
or absent ; anthers adnate, the connective mostly overtopping the cells. 
Carpels many, becoming dry or fleshy, free or in Anona united into 
a mass. Seeds 1 or more in each carpel, with abundant ruminated 
albumen. — Trees or erect or climbing shrubs with alternate entire 
exstipulate leaves. Flowers terminal or axillary. Distrib. Species 
about 400, cosmopolitan in tropics. 
Carpels united in a mass 1 . Anona. 
Carpels separate from one another. 
Petals unequal 2. Xylopia. 
Six petals subequal. 
Ovules 2 basal * Artabotrys. 
Ovules biserial * Cananga. 
1. ANONA, Linn. 
Sepals small, connate. Petals in one or two valvate series, concave on 
