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VI. ANON ACE AS. 
an appendage. Pistils i, or usually more, apocarpous; style very 
short or o; ovules one or more. Fruit of i, usually many, sessile 
or stalked carpels i- or many-seeded, usually baccate, very rarely 
dehiscent ( Anaxagorea, Xylopia). Seed large more or less flattened, 
testa crustaceous, usually shining. Albumen dense, ruminate, 
with several series of horizontal plates, embryo small. Tropics, 
chiefly of the Old World; genera 45, species 500 to 600, 
abundant in the lowland forests of the Malay region, becoming 
very scarce about 2000 ft. altitude. Commonly known by the 
Malays as Pisang-Pisang or variants of this (lit. bananas), on 
account of the bunch of carpels suggesting bananas. The uses of 
the plants of this order indigenous here are very limited. They 
have few medicinal properties, and the timber is usually too small 
to be of value, the only really big tree being Mezzettia leptopoda. 
Drepananthus, Xylopia, some Polyalthias, etc., are used in house¬ 
building, for rafters or poles. Cultivated here for their fruits are 
the Anonas of South America: ri. squamosa, Nona Srikaya; A. 
muricata, Durian B'landa; Sri Kaya Blanda; Nona blanda; ri. 
reticulata, Nona Kapri, and, as a roadside or village tree for its 
flowers, Canangium odoratum, the Kenanga, probably native of the 
Philippine Islands. Its soft timber is also used for tom-toms. 
Artabotrys odoratissimus, a climber cultivated for its fragrant 
flowers, is also to be found in Chinese gardens. The A nonacece of 
the peninsula were described in the “ Materials ” for a Flora of the 
Malay Peninsula, by Sir George King, in the Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, lxi. (2), in 1892, and in the Annals of the 
Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, iv., quoted Journ. ris. Soc. Beng. and 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc., respectively. 
i. Uvari®. Petals 2 in 2 rows, one or both rows imbricate in bud; 
stamens many, anther-cells concealed by a flat appendage; ovaries indefinite. 
Sepals imbricate; trees or shrubs. 
Flowers small globular, usually unisexual on 
the older branches or trunk; ovules 6, 
indefinite. 
Ovules many; torus conic . . 
Ovules 6 to 8; torus flat .... 
Flowers large, bisexual .... 
Sepals valvate; climbers. 
Flowers small, on trunk or branches; ovules 
6 to 8. 
Flowers usually large, expanding flat on 
branches. 
Ovules many ...... 
Ovules 1 to 2; flowers rather small 
Flowers medium, petals not expanding; ovules 
1 to 2 . 
1. Stelechocarpus 
2. Sagerjea 
3. Griffithia 
4. Cyathostemma 
5. Uvaria 
6. Uvarxella 
7. Ellipeia 
ii. Unone®. Petals valvate in bud flat, or base only concave, inner 
petals similar to outer; stamens many, with overlapping appendages; ovaries 
indefinite, rarely few. 
