30 ANNALS OE THE ROYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA.
24. UV.UIIA ESCELSA, Wall. Cat. 6-477. A crccper 30 to 100 feet long; yoiiug parts
stellate-pubescent; the brauchlets tawny-tomentose, speedily becoming glabrous, darkcoloured
aud furrowed. Leaves coriaceous, oblaneeolate, obovate-obloug to elliptic, the
apex acuininatc (sonietimos very aliortly), acute, rarely obtuse, slightly narrowed to the
minutely cordate base; upper surface shining, glabrous except the puberulous depressed
i n i d r i b ; lower surface minutely tawny-tomentose; main nerves 10 t o 12 pairs, spreading,
s l e n d e r ; length 3-5 to 7-5 in., breadth I'o to 4 in.; petiole -3 to -5 in., pubescent.
FLuwers white, '35 to -4 in. in diam., in contracted cymes from the branches below
t h e leaves, or axillary; pedicels only about -3 in. long, rufous-tonientose with a large
bract close to the flower. .Sepals semi-orbicular, sub-acute, valvate, concave, spreading,
tomcntose outside, glabrous within. Petals in bud imbricate only at their apices, subequal,
thick, concave, densely and minutely pabcsccnt on both surfaces; the outer
broadly ovate, acute, a h t t l e larger than the sepals; inner petals ovate, about as large
as the sepals. Anihevs numerous, narrow, the colls linear, lateral; the apical process of
t h e connective thick, sub-quadrate, obliquely truncate, minutely pubescent. Ovaries
narrow, elongate, grooved, pubescent; the stigma thick, sub-capitate, sub-truncate; ovules
numerous, in two rows. Ripe carpds sub-globalar, shghtly obovoid, blunt at each end,
densely and minutely tomentose, M in. long and -9 in. in diam. Seeds about 14, in
two rows, horizontal, half-oval, flat, smooth, brown. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal CI,
p f . 2, 22.—Mitrephora excclsa, U. f . i ' T. Fl. lad. 114; Hook, fil Fl Br. Lid. i, 77;
Miq. Fl. m . Bat. i. pt 2, 31.
Pena:ig,— IValiicli, Curtis. Pcrak,—Kingh Collector, Scorteohini. JIalacca,—Maingag
{Keio Disirib.) No. 36 {in part).
This plant was originally issued a:s a Uoaria by Wallich. His specimens of it,
however, bore no mature flowers ; and Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Thomson referred
t h em doubtfully to Mitrephora. The excellent specimens recently collected by Mr. Curtis
and by the Calcutta Garden Collector .show the petals to be sub-equal and concave,
imbricate at the apes only, the sepals being quite valvate. This of course is not the
typical ilower of a Uvaria, in which the petals are mueh imbricate. But the stamens,
ovaries aud ripe fi-uit are more those of Uvaria than of any other genus.
P l a t e 20. Uvaria excclsa. Wall. 1, Flowering b r a n c h ; 2, single flower with its
b r a c t e o l e ; 5, young carpels; 6, ripe carpels; 7, section of ripe carpel to show the
geeds—of natural size ; 3, sepals; 4, petals—enlarged; 8, stamens; 9, ovaries; 10, section
of ovary—much enlarged.
Doiibtful Species.
25. Uvaria a s t r o s t i c t a , JlT-j. Fl. Fnd. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber ? Young
branches deciduously rufous-stellate-tomentose with simple hairs intermixed; ultimately
glabrous, striate and dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sometimes
slightly oblanceohite, acuminate, the base rounded or minutely cordate; upper surface
minutely scaberulous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves softly rufous-pubescent; lower
surface at first densely and softly tomcntose, ultimately sparsely stellate-pubescent, subscaberulous;
main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spreading, rather prominent on the lower
s u r f a c e ; length of blade 4 to 6 in., breadth Po to 1'8 i n . ; petiole '2 in. Feduneles
extra-axillary, very short (only '3 in.), 2- to 3-flowered, rufous-stellate-tomentoso as are
t h e 2 or 3 sub-rotund bracts; buds sub-globular; flowers '6 in. in diam. Sepals reniform,
ANONACEiE OF BEITISII INDIA.
. Petals nearly thi-ee times as long as the sepals, subsub
acute, , Obova'e, sub-acute, minutely • pubescent.
conacoous, ^ beyond the apice., flattened and truncatc, 3 outer
sub-sesstle; the I globular when 1-secdcd and
T T ^ Z ^ and -4 to -65 rn. long when scveral-scodcd
r ; a ^ I t : « slightly excavated at tkc base. . . . . . . . . . .
11,d ii 8 • Kin'J <« J'"»"'-
' l ' o r a k - S = » ' W ' » No. 121. Distrib.—E. Sumatra. . „ ,
t L k r a k spoctaon. of this plant agroo porfoctly with ftoso f « m bumaU-a on
w i n d ' tho speoics was foundod. It i« allica to U. U U r c a r f a , Bl., to V. rufa, LI, and
also to 11 Umm-emit.
P l a t e 27A. Uvaria astrosticto, Miq. 1, Branch Tvitli buds and flowers; 3, npo i r u i t;
4 s o c d — " / f l o w e r dissected and slightly enlarged; 5 & C, outer stamens;
7 & 8, inner stamens—m!ic/i enlar(jGd.
36 UvAiiU ITOBOCALYJC, Miij. Ann. Mm. Lt'sd. Bat. ii. 4. A powerful climber;
voun"- branches and petioles covered with minute, loose, rufous, stellato tementum.
leava thinly coriaceous, oblong, usually slightly obovate, shortly sharply and rather
abruBlly acuminate, narrowed in the lower half to tbo rounded, rarely cordate, base;
raroer surface (when adult) nearly glabrous, except the tomentose midrib and mam
nerves- lower glabrescent, oicept the stellate-pubescent midrib and 13 to 10 subascendiU,
rather straight, thin but prominent nerves; length ef blade 7 to 0 n i,
breadth Ij'To to i in. ; petiole '2 to -3 in. FochncU, -35 to 0 in. long, extra-axillary,
2 to 3-flowcred, " w i t h a large leaf-like tomentose bract at the base of each pedicel
a r f a bractcele under the calyx" (II. f.) ; flower 1-85 in. in diam. S e f d s connate
h a l f w a y up into a densely tomentose cup with sub-plieate margins. I ' d a b oval or
obovate-oblong, obtuso, fleshy, dull reddish-purple, sub-tubercular, pubescent. Carpds on
Ion- stalks ovoid-globose, tuberded, minutely, rustytementose, -76 in, long and a little
less" in diam.; stalks 1 to 1'23 in. long, tomentose. W 0 t o 8, oval, flat, shining,
blackish, nook. fa. Fl.- Br. Iwl. i. 48 ; Ku,i Fl. Burm. i. 28.
Burmah (Province Pegu),—-ffiirz. Distrib.—Sumatra, Borneo.
I have seen only the f r u i t i n g specimens ef this collected in Pegu by Km-z and to
wliich he gave the Jiss. name U. tuiercubla. But for tbo globese tubereled carpels,
these specimens might be r i f e n ^ d to U. tmcrofhjila, Eoib. The,5e Burmese specimens
have been accepted at Kew as identical with the type specimem of K fhjclmahjx
collected in Borneo and Sumatra.
P l a t e 28. Uvaria ptychoealyx, Miq. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower seen f r om
below; 3, ripe carpels; 4, section of ripe carpel—o/ natural sise; 6, flower dissected;
6, anther ; 7 , pistil—enlarged.
27. Uvaria bdb-bepauda. Wall Cat. 6483. A clinibor; young branches very slender,
rather sparsely scurfypubcscent. Xeooes membranous, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute,
t h e base rounded; upper sm-face sbhiing, glabrous except the pubescent m i d r i b ; undersurface
pale, yellowish-brown when di-y, dull, at first puberulous, ultimately quite
glabrous, including the midrib ; the reticulations di,stinct ; main neiwes 10 to 14 pairs,