ANONACEiE. 
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2. XYLOPIA, Linn. 
Sepals three, small, deltoid, valvate, connate at the base. Petals 6, 
valvate, in two sets of three each, triquetrous. Stamens oblong, in- 
definite, with the connective produced beyond the cells. Carpels nume- 
rous, free, inserted in cavities of the torus ; ovules 2-6, ventral ; style 
elongated. Carpels cylindrical, often dehiscent. — Trees, with coriaceous 
leaves, the flowers solitary or fascicled in their axils. Distrib. Bound 
the world in the tropics. Species 30. 
1. X. Richardi, Boiv. MSS. A glabrous tree, with crowded terete 
flexuose branches. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, obovate-oblong, 
2-3 in. long, coriaceous, shining, green above, finely venulose beneath, 
cuneate at the base. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, on short 
stout pedicels. Outer petals § in. long, clothed with whitish-brown 
silky pubescence. Ripe carpels 15-20, sausage-shaped, II in. long, 
dark brown, glabrous, marked with flexuose vertical lines. Seeds 
4-5, oblong, tightly packed, bright chestnut-brown, with a cupular fleshy- 
membranous aril at the base. Anona aromatica, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 6, 
non DC. 
Mauritius, in hilly woods of Grandport ; also Bourbon. 
Of the genera with entirely distinct carpels 
# Cananga odorata, Hk. fil. and Thoms. FI. Ind. 130 (Unona odo- 
rata, DC. ; Deless. Ic. t. 88), a common Indian species, has been 
gathered by Horne in the Seychelles, but is probably planted. It is a 
tall tree, with fascicled axillary flowers, 6 subequal spreading long 
petals, ovoid anther-tips, long-stalked fleshy ripe carpels and many 
biserial ovules. 
# Artabotrys odoratissima,B. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 453 (IJnona uncinata, 
Dun. Monog. Anon. p. 105, t. 12), another common Indian species, 
with 1-2 flowers from a curious hooked peduncle, and 2-seeded yellow 
oblong fleshy ripe carpels, given by Dunal and others as Mauritian, 
is planted only. 
Order IV. MENISPERMACEiE. 
Flowers minute, dioicous or polygamous. Sepals usually 6, distinct 
much imbricated. Petals usually 6, free or connate. Male flowers 
with stamens equal in number to the petals, and opposite to them, dis- 
tinct or connate, 2-celled adnate anthers and sometimes rudimentary 
carpels. Female flowers with 3 (1-12) carpels, becoming fleshy in 
fruit ; stigma terminal. Seed concave on the inner face, curved round 
an intruded point of the endocarp (condyle) ; albumen ruminate or 
uniform or absent. — Climbing shrubs with alternate exstipulate entire 
leaves. Distrib. Everywhere in the tropics; species estimated by 
Benth. and Hk. fil. at about 80. 
1. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 
Dioicous, the male and female flowers very diflei ent ; the male with 
4 oblong free sepals, 2-4 petals, united into a cup, and anthers joined 
