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 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 685

Artabotrys. Cat. tripartitus. Petala sex. Stamina hypogyna. Ovaria distincta, disperma. Baccce dispermse (abortione quandoque monospermy). Semina collateralia erecta exarillata albumine rimoso. — Frutices decumbentes. Folia alterna, integerrima, exstipulata. Pedunculi extra- at ares, suboppositifolii pauciflori, pedicellis (1 — 2) laterali- ties, apice uncinati. Brown MSS.

Obs. Characterises supra datis proxime accedit Kad- surse, cujus baccce disperma seminibus collateralibus pariter distincta receptaculo carnoso insidentes fide iconis et de- scriptionis Kampferi (Am sen. Exot. 476) ; sed Kadsura vice Annonacea ob summam affinitatem cum Uvaria hete- roclita, Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ined. cm albumen indivisum nee processubus membrance interioris rimosum auctoritate de- scriptions operis citati. Brown MSS.

A. odoratissimus, petalorum laminis planis lanceolatis, foliis oblongis acuminatis. Brown MSS.

Uvaria odoratissima. Roxburgh, Flor. Ind. Ined.

Unona uncinata, Bunal Anonacees, 105, t. 12 et 12a, BeCand. Sj/st. Nat. 1, 490.

Unona hamata. Bunal An onace'es, 107. BeCand. Syst. Nat. 1, 491.

Uvaria esculenta. Bottler in Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Cur. berol, 4, 201.

Uvaria uncata. Loureiro cochin. 349.

Anona uncinata. Lamarck, encyc. 2, 127.

Anona hexapetala, Linn. Suppl. 270. HorL Kew. 2, 253. Ed. 2, 3, 335. Willd. sp.pl 2, 1266.

The present plant, after various shiftings from one inap- propriate group to another, according to the wavering views of different botanists, is now placed in a new genus constituted for its reception by Mr. Brown, to whom the generic name has been suggested by the curious grapple or tendril belonging to the peduncle, by which the growing fruit is conveniently suspended on the nearest support, during its advance to maturity, and the slender flexile branch relieved from the disproportionate burden, which would be otherwise laid on the ground.

The synonymy is also a valuable contribution from

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