Flora Medica

ANONACEJE.Branches woody, smooth at bottom, slender and velvety at thepoints. Leaves ovate, acute, 3 in. long, 12-14 lines broad, quitesmooth on the upper surface, downy beneath. Flowers unknown.Peduncles of the fruit thick, woody, naked, 4 lines long. Torus of thefruit capitate, 3 lines broad, marked by the scars where the fruitdropped off. Carpels 12-18, pod-shaped, 1-2 inches long, knotted,striated, quite smooth, with the taste of pepper. Fruit pungent,aromatic, and often substituted for other spices. It is the Piperagthiopicum of commerce.62. H. aromatica A. de C. I c. 32. Waria zeylanica Aubl.i.guian. 605. t. 243. Unona aromatica Dunal. man. 112. D C.i.prodr. 91. Woods of Guiana.A tree with a trunk 20 feet high and more. Leaves ovate, acute,smooth, quite entire, subsessile. Flowers solitary or 2 together,downy externally, smooth and violet internally. Fruit 12-20 toeach flower, knotted, cylindrical, brownish, with a deep furrow on oneside. Fruit pungent, aromatic, employed by the Blacks in lieu ofspice.MONODORA.Sepals 3. Petals 6 in 2 rows; the outer lanceolate, theinner ovate. Anthers numerous, subsessile. Ovary 1, ovate,1 -celled, with the whole inside covered by ovules; crowned bya sessile stigma. Fruit smooth, corticated, fleshy, roundish,1-celled, many-seeded; seeds nestling in pulp.63. M. myristica Dunal. monogr. 80. DC. prodr.i. 87.Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3059. Anona myristica Gcertn. carp.ii. 194. t. 125. f. i.Supposed to be a native of the west coastof Africa, and thence carried by the negroes to Jamaica.Leaves alternate, oblong, or sometimes obovate, somewhat cordate,entire, smooth, shining, bright pale green above, 4-5 inches long, 1-2broad :petioles short, grooved above. Peduncles opposite to theleaves, single-flowered, round, smooth, greenish white, pendulous, 4 to7 inches long, generally single. Near the summit of the peduncles is abractea, reflexed when the flower is full blown, subcordate, acute, about12-veined, green, curled and wavy at the margin, slightly variegated withyellowish red. Flowers fragrant ;when beginning to expand, white,marked with purplish-brown spots; afterwards yellow and the spotsbrighter red. Calyx monophyllous, tube very short, limb deeply cleft into3 unequal sepals, their margins crisped and waved; the sepal oppositeto the bract being shorter and narrower than the other two, which aresomewhat coriaceous and ovate-acute. Corolla monopetalous, generallytwice as long as the calyx limb 6-parted ; in a double series ;3outer segments oblong-ovate, waved at the margin, of the same colouras the sepals, the ground bright yellow, marked with rows of irregularspots or interrupted stripes of reddish-brown 3 inner;segments, fromto J shorter than the outer, unguiculate, cordate, convex, veined,yellowish-white externally, downy and even at the edges, which adhereslightly, within concave, smooth, shining, pale yellow, variegatedwith pale crimson spots. Stamens close, in 11-12 rows, on the28