28 ANNALS OF THE EOYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA.
•15 to -25 in. Peduncles terminal, 1-75 to 2 in. long, slender, sparsely scaly, smooth,
ebraetcolate, 1-flowcred; buds depressed-globose, minutely velvety-tomentose; flowers
1 in. in diam. Sepals rotund-ovate, conjoined in their lower third, reflexed, miiiutoly
tomentose. Petals much larger than the sepals, ovate-rotund, connate at the base,
minutely tomentose. Anthers with the conuectivo produced at the apex, broad, tnmcate.
Torus depressed-globose. Carpels very numeroxis, on long slender stalks, oval, blunt at
each end, slightly torulose, glabrous, scarlet, -4 to "9 in. long and -3 to -4 in. in diam.
Seeds in a single row, 4 or 6, oval, smooth, compressed, sometimes only 1 or 2 and
plano-convcx. T7. A., Prod. .9; IJook. jil ^ Thorns. Fl. Ind. 102 {in pari)-, Bah.
and Gibs. PL Bomb. 3 ; JJooJc. fil PL Br. Ind. i. 50 {cxcL var. 2); Thteaites' Eniim. PI.
Ceyl. 6.—Uvaria ku-ida, Dah. Gibs, {not of H. / . ¿f Th.) PI. Bomb. 3.—Unona
Narum, Pwial Anon. 99; DC. Prod. i. 89 (boih in pari).—'U. Zeylanica, Lam. {not oj
Linn.)
Ceylon : Central Province iip to 4,000 feet : common. Slalabar.
PLATU 21. Uvaria Nainim, IL. f . ^ Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, bud; 3, carpels;
4, vertical section of carpel; 5,- s e e d — o f natural size.
21. IJVAKIA HOOKEEI, King. A climber; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous.
Leaves as in U. minm, but longer (6 to 9 in.) Ploiocrs as in U. Narum, but larger
(1 to 1-5 in. in diam.) Ctrpels ovoid, tapering to eacli end, their peduncles thick, 1-5
to 2 in. long. Seeds iu two rows, otherwise as in U. N^iram. U. Narum, Wall Cat.
6473 {in part)-, Wight III 19, i. C; Hook, fil Thorns. Fl. Ind. 102 {in part)] ILook.
fil. PL Ind., var. 2 macropJiglla; Dah. Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 3.—Unona Kamm, Dunal
Anon. 99, and DC. Prod. i. 89, both (m part).—? U. Zeylanica, Lam. {not of Linn.)
Forests of the Western Ghats in the Presidencies both of Bombay and Madras.
In their Flora Indica (p. 102) Hook. fil. & Th. suggested that two species might
be mixed up under U. Narum, the one -with only a single row of seeds in its carpels,
the other with (as is usual iu the genus) a double row of seeds. In the Flora of
British India two varieties of U. Narum are recognised, the second of which {macrophglla)
is characterised by the thick stalks of its carpels. The thick stalk is so invai'iably
associated with ovoid carpels tapering to cach end and having a double row of
seeds that I think this variety is worthy of specific rank, and I therefore venture to
treat it as a species.
PLATK 22. Uvaria Hookeri, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, young fruit; 3, two
cai'pcls not quite ripe—of natural size; 4, 5, & 6, flowers; 7, anthers—enlarged.
22. UVAKIA LURIDA, E.f. ^ Th. PL Ind. 101 {ezcl var. 0). A large climber; young
parts with minute stellate rusty scales; the older branchlots dark-coloured, striate. Leaves
thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, soroetimes oblairceolate, acute or acuminate,
the base rounded or cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous when adult end finely reticulate ;
the lower puberulous when young; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, faint;. length
4 to 8 in., breadth I'o to 2-5 in. ; petiole '2 to '3 in. Peduncles terminal or extraaxillary,
about 1 in. long (longer in fruit), roughly stellate, scaly and tomentoso,
ebractcolate ; buds depressed-globose. Flowers 2-25 in, in diam. Sepals 3, broadly-ovate,
acuto, spreading, connate at the base into a fiattish cup 1-3 in. in diam., rough,
ANONACEiE OF BRITISH INDIA.
ta'and -6 iu. in diam.; .talk,, mths. .tout, glabrous, IrKpotrou. 4 o 6 i„. lo> g.
« 3 to 6 in a single row, compressed (those at the end sub-globular), .smooth.
n i t : nLeru s l o p e s , - . ! . . . M- , E. Hioralaya ou Mungpoo
t s t ^ i r - S r S i r w : The s^eoles a,>proaehes
V. Namm, Wall., and viacropodo, II. f. & Th.
YAB. SMimmm, King. Flowers smaller (under 2 in. in diam.); calyx smaller
and less tubercled.
PLATE 23. Uvaria lurida, S. f . ^ Th., var. SikUmnm. 1, Flowering branch; 2
& 3, flower-buds; 4, ovaries; 0, ripe carpels; 6, vertical section of carpel; ^ » d - ./
„iurcl s « ; ,8, anthers-«i«>-^rf; 0, Aowci- of typical U. luruU from Assam; 10, flowerbud
of the s a m e — . / natural size.
23. UVAKIA ANDAIIAUICA, King in Jouru. As. Soe. Bcrujal 61, pt. 2, 21. Scandent;
young branches rather stout, scuiflly stellate-tomentose. Lsmie oblong-oblanceolate, shortly
aoummate, much narrowed to tbe rounded, unequal or minutely cordate, base; upper
surface glabrous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves coarsely puberulous; undcr-surfaco
reticulate, stellate-rafous-pubescent on the midrib and 18 to 32 pairs of spreading,
curving nerves; length 5-5 to 9 in., breadth 1-75 to 4 in.; petiolo -3 in., tubercular.
Flmerh small, iu short terndnal or axillary cymes, rarely solitary; podicels -3 m. long,
densely covcred like the outside of the sepals with sub-deciduous, coarse, rusty, stellate
tonientum ; bracteole solitary, orbicular, ovate, dose to the flower. Sepals valvate,
orbicular, partly connate, glabrous inside. Petatí imbricate, orbicular, fleshy, more or
less puberulous outside, glabrous within ; the inner rather smaller than the outer, but
both under (in the young state) -20 in. in diam. Stamms numerous, naii-owly elongate,
the apex truncate more or less obliquely; anther-cells lateral. Ovaries absent in the
staminiferous flower. Rijie carpels oblong, blunt (almost truncate) at each end, slightly
tubcrculate and densely covered with loose, sub-deciduous, rusty-stellate tomentum;
pericarp rather thick. Seeds about 8, iu two rows, plano-convex.
Soutb Andaman,—JfMij.'s Colleetor.
This has been collected only on two occasions, once with undeveloped male flowers
and once with immature fruit. The full size attained by the flowers is not known, and
the measurements of sepals and petals above given are taken from buds. By its leaves
and peculiar deciduous rusty-stellate tomentum tbe species is, however, readily recognisable.
PLATE 35. Uvaria andamanica, Kiim. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripo carpels; a,
soction of ripe carpel; 4, flower dissected—of mtwui sise.