23 ANSALS OF THE EOYAL BOTAKIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA.
neiYCS 10 to 16 pairs, thin,-spreading, slightly prominent on the lower, sub-impressed on
t h e upper, sm-facc ; length of blade 5 to 0 in., breadth 2-5 to é in. ; petiole -3 t o -6 in.,
stout. Fcduneles terminal or extra-aiillary, -ó in. long, 3- or 4-flowered the pedicels
much longer, slender, all scaly-tomentoso as are the 3 or 4 OYate to rotund bracts;
buds globose or deprossed-globose ; flowers 1 to 1-35 in. in diom. Sepali rotund, leniform,
united into an obscurely 3-toothed shallow oup, warted and soaly-piibesecnt outside,
minutely pubescent inside. Pelab coriaceous, much larger than tho calyx, broadly oval
or oval-oblong, sub-obtuse, minutely but densely pubescent on both surfaces ; tho outer
warted. Slamas. sessile, the projecting connective at the apex quadrate or rhomboid
in the inner, flattened and oblique in the outer, anthers. Omries longer than the
anthers, truncate, pubescent. Oarfeb numerous, stalked, oval, smooth, glabrous, very
blunt at the apex, less so at the base, when ripe about 1 in. long and - U in.
in diam • stalks thin, -75 to 1 in. long. Suds about 8 in two rows, compressed,
smooth. Ann. Mus. Ziifí Bai. ii. 7 ; S c k f . Ois. n y t . iii. 26, 65,; Ann. Jard.
Jiot. Buiitnzorg^, 2, '
Mergui,—J. Andermn. Distrib.—Java ; Bangka ; Borneo,—-Toî-ttois, Jleccari Kos.
1760 and 37.58, E r a s e r ; Phillipines.
This, in my opinion, might very well be treated as merely a glabrous
f o rm of U. macrafhjlla, Eoxb. It is not a common plant in British India, the
only numistakable specimens of it which I have seen having been collected in
Tenasscrim (at Mergui) by Dr. J . Anderson, F.j!.s., wbose zoological researche.i
in that Archipelago have yielded such rich results. U. Bosenbtrpam, Schefler,
f r om New Guinea [Scheff. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg i. ,3 (Beccari PI. Papuan»
No 370 Sis)] appears to me to be undistinguishable from this. I have not seen
authentic specimens of V. littomli,,. SI. [Fl. Java: Anon. 26, t. 7 (.Í7»»» liUoraln,
Bl. Bijdr. 16)]. But, judging from Bluine's descriptions and figure, that species
cannot b¿ very different from this. In, the case of theh- identity, Ü. UUoralh beh.g
t h e older as a described species, its specific name would stand, I presume, as
t h a t of the plant. Miqnel, in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 8, reduces his own species
17. acrantha (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 868) and his XI. imcmphnUa, var. glcihrior reductions.I.e., to a
I
v.ariety ot ovalifiUa, and I think he is quite V. right Bornensb in making
should also be reduced to
am inclined to believe that Miquel's Sf " " "
U. cmlifolia.
PLATE 13. Uvaria ovalifolia, Bl. 1, Flowering branch; 3, f r u i t ; 3, vertical section
of carpel ; 4, seed—oK of naim-til • liae.
11. UvAHU niESUTA, ./(ic/i Mai. Mite. {Book. Bot. Mise. ii. 87). A sarmentóse
shrub but often climbing to tho length of from 15 to 60 f e e t ; young, branches and
petiolLs with numerous, rather stiff, reddish-brown hairs. Leaves thinly coriaccous,
narrowly elliptic to elliptie-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, acute or snb-acute, the base
rounded or minutely cordato; upper surface with scattered sub-adpressed, stiff, mostly
simple hah-s the midrib tomentose; lower surface with more numerous stellate and
simple hairs; main nerves 9 to 14 pairs, spreading, depressed on the upper surface
(when dry) but prominent on the lower; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 3-35 to 3 23 in.;
petiole -3 in. redmcUs 1 to 3 in. long, lateral or terminal, not axillary, 1- rarely
2fiOK¡reJ- flowers 1-2Ô to 1-5 in. in diam.; bract solitary (rarely 3 or 3), lancoolate,
,iMONACE^ OP BEIIISH INDIA.
deciduous; buds ovoid-globose, stiffly hairy. S , , a s membranous, broadly ovate, acute
connate, pilose outside, reflexed. PeMs red, larger than the sepals, broadly ovate,
acute; outside tomentose with stiff hairs intermixed, inside snb-glabrons; anthers lo in.
Ion.., sub-sessile, the connective at the apex often slightly produced and obtuse.
Ovaries 4-angIed, truncate, rufous-tomentose, shorter than the anthers. Etje earpds
numerous, stalked, cylindric, blunt, 1-5 to 2 in. long, covered (as arc tho stalks and
torus) with dense darkly ferruginous tomentum mixed with strfl hairs; stalks 1 to
1-35 in lono" torus hemispheric. Seeds numerous, ovoid, plano-convex. Blume t L
Jcvoe Anon °22, i. 5; Wall. Oat. 6458 {exel. (7.); Hook, fil é' Thorns. FI. Ind. 89;
Hooì. fi. Pl. Br, Ind. i. 48; Uùi. M. Ind. Bat. i, f t , 3, 34; A^. Mus. Lugd.
Bat ii 8- SeUff. ir, Nat. Tijdseh. xxxi. 2; Zoll. in Linm xxix. 304; Kurz Flora
Bum. i. 28; Schef. Oherv. Phyt. i. 3; King in Journ. As. Soe. Bengal 61, f t . 2 18.--
U. trichomalla, Bl. Fl. Jav. Anon. 42, 1, 1 8 . - U . vclutina, BUm, (not of Moxb.) Bydr.
13.—U. pilosa, Btalj. Fl. Ind. ii. 665.
I n all the provinces. Distrib.—Malayan Archipelago and Burmah.
There is some difference amongst mdividuals as to the breadth of the leaves, and on
one of the forms with comparatively short but broad leaves Blume founded his species
U. triahomalh.
PLATE 14 Uvaria liirsuta, Jack. 1, Tlowering b r a n c h ; 7, ripe carpels; 8, s e c d s -
of natural 3 & 3, flowers; 4, flower (dissected to show tho parts); 5, anthers;
6, O-K&YJ—enlarged.
12 UVARIA CDETISII, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bagal 61, f t . 2, 19. A large climber;
young branches densely rusty-tomentose, slender. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes
slightly oblanceolate, acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base; upper .surface
..labrous exccpt the strong rusty-tomentose. midrib and tho nerves; under-surfaeo stellaterufous
tomcntoso, especially on the midrib, reticulations, and 7 to 13 p a h s of ascending,
cm-ving, bold, main nerves; length 4 to 9 in., breadth 1-7 to 3'25 m. ; petiole -lo to
•2 in stout. Flmers 1 to 1'23 im in diam., solitary or m pairs, a i d l a r y ; pedicels 1
to 1'73 in., densely tomentose like tho outer surface of the sepals, and with an ovate
supra-median bracteole. Sefab broadly ovale, concave, spreading, pubemlous within,
•35 im long. Petals thinly leathery, white, sub-equal, ovate-oblong, obtuse; tho outer
rather broader than tho hiner, -5 im long, pubemlous on both surfaces, but especially
on the outer. Slanwus numerous, all perfect; connective truncate at tho apex, not
prolonged into a process; tho anthers linear, lateral. OmrijiS numerous, crowded,
elongate, 3-angled, tomentose, with 12 ovules i n two rows; stigma sessflo, large, subcapitate,
coiTugated, glabrous. Elpe earpeb .unknown.
P c r a k ; on Ulu B u b o n g , — » V « Colleetm No. 8343. Penang ; elev. of 3,000 f e e t ,—
Ourtis No. 1415.
PLATE 34A. Uvaria Gurtisii, King. 1,-Flowering branch—o/ natural size; 2, androgjTicecium
and sepals; 3 & 4, petals; 5, anthers; 6, pistil—
13. UVAEIA RIDLEVI, King in Journ. AS. Soe. Beng. 61, f t . 3, 19. A
climber; young branches slender, stellate-inifous-tomentose, ultimately dark-coloured,
striate, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, slightly