VI. ANONACEAL 
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Sagercea.] 
sub-equal, concave-orbicular. Stamens 6 to 21 imbricate in 2 or 
more series, broad oblong fleshy; anther-cells dorsal, oblong; 
connective produced. Ovaries 3 to 6; style short; stigma capitate; 
ovules 6 to 8, on ventral suture. Carpels globose, stalked. Species 
6, tropical Asia. 
Leaves large, base round . , . . . . (1) S. elliptica 
Leaves 6 by 1*25, base narrow . . . . . (2) S. lanceolata 
(1) S. elliptica Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 93; King, Journ. yls. Soc. 
Beng. l.c. 7 ; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 6, pi. 34. S. Hookeri Pierre , 
FI. For. Cochinchine, t. 15. 
A big tree glabrous, branchlets angled. Leaves very cori¬ 
aceous large narrow oblong acute or obtuse, base rounded; 
nerves 14 to 16 pairs, very faint; 8 to 12 in. long, 2-25 to 3-25 in. 
wide; petioles -15 in. long, very thick. Flowers unisexual, solitary, 
axillary or below several fascicled on the large branches or trunk, 
white or red, small; pedicels *25 in. long. Sepals small, semi- 
orbicular, glabrous, edges ciliate. Petals thick ovate-orbicular 
concave glabrous edges ciliate, -25 in. long, inner smaller. Stamens 
12 to 18, appendages quadrate. Ovaries in female 3, glabrous, 
ovules 8. Carpels sub-sessile globose 1 in. through. Seeds several. 
Had. Rare and little known. Penang (Wallich, Maingay). Distrib. 
Burma. 
(2) S. lanceolata Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lngd. Bat. ii. 10. 
Tree. Leaves thin stiff coriaceous lanceolate blunt shortly 
narrowed to the base, shining; nerves faint, about 8 pairs, irregu¬ 
larly inarching; 6 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. 
Flowers small, in tufts below the leaves. Bracts numerous, hairy, 
ovate, -i in. long. Pedicels *5 in. long. Sepals ovate connate at 
base small. Petals oblong with round tips, edge ciliate, imbricate, 
’15 in. long. Stamens 20 very short linear-oblong, glabrous. 
" Carpels 3, ovoid, ovules 10 in 2 rows. Fruit globose " (Miquel). 
Hob. Pahang, Baloh Residency, Kwantan (Coll. F. G, Yeop. 
Comm. Foxworthy). Distrib. Borneo. Native name: Melilen. 
The texture of the leaves is as in 5 . elliptica, but they are much smaller, 
lanceolate and narrowed to base. 
3 . GRIFFITHIA, Maing. 
Trees or shrubs. Flowers axillary solitary or in pairs, large. 
Sepals broad, short, imbricate. Petals 6, imbricate ovate, inner 3 
smaller and much thicker than the outer, excavated at the base. 
Stamens numerous, elongate, connective truncate; anther-cells 
linear dorsal. Ovaries numerous; ovules 1 or 2 basal. Style fili¬ 
form. Stigma broadly clavate. Species 3, Malay Peninsula only. 
Allied to Polyalthia (macranlha and its allies) in form of flowers 
and ovaries, but with imbricate petals and sepals. Griffitkia, Wight 
and Arnott ( Rubiacece ), has long been reduced to Randia. 
