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52 IV. ANONACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [ Uvaria. 



Penang, PhiU'ps. 

 - , A slender woodj climber; Lrancblets glabrous; buds tomentose. Leaves i-Q^J 

 14-24 in., base acute, nerves reticulate. Flowers very minute; peduncle about 4 ^°-i 

 kaf-opposed or nearly so; bracts alternate: pedicels i-i^ in., puberulous ; bracteole 

 Bubmedian, linear-oblong. Sepals orbicular, pubescent. Petals ovate, acute. , ' 



U. flCLEROCARPA, A, DC, Mem, Anon. 27 ; Wall. Cat 6461, from Moulmein, is a 

 very doubtful plant, of wbich the flower is unknown and fruit immature. 



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Characters of Uvaria, but differing in the oblong style, solitary ventral 

 or subbasal ovule, and 1-seeded carpels. — Distrib. Malayan Peninsula and 

 Archipelago ; species 5 or 6— Reduced to Uvaria by Baillon. 



1. E. cuneifolia, H,f. & T.FL Ind. 104; leaves oblong or bovate- 

 oblong abruptly acuminate glabrous above tomentose beneath,oflower3 

 in terminal panicles, carpels tomentose oblong obtuse. Hooh Ic. PL t. 1025. 



Malacca, Griffith^ Maingay, 



Branches woody, brown-tomentcse. Leaves 6-8 by 2-3 in., firm, coriaceous, base 

 rounded or subcordate, shining above except the tomentose midrib; petiole \ in. j^- 

 diceU 4 in., densely tomentose ; bracts at each fork oblong or ovate ; bracteole under 

 the calyx, orbicular. Flowers \\ in. diam., densely tomentose. Carpels 4^3 in., ^n" 

 a lateral mucro ; stalk 1 in. 



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2. S. ferrugrineai H. / 



appressed pubescent above densely stellate tomentose beneath, flowers 

 Bofitary terminal or leaf-opposed, carpels stellate-tomentose. Uvaria ferru- 

 ginea, Ham. : U,f. <£• T, FL Ind. 96. 



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Forests of Ava at Meaday, Hamilton; and Pegu, Kurz. ^ , . 



Scandent ; branches slender, brown-tomentose. Leaves 3-6 by 1 4-34 in. ; pet|^'®^ 

 J-J in., brown-tomentose. Flowers 1 J-l^ in. diam., grey- pubescent ; peduncle ^-4 i^» 

 bracts submedian, oblong or lanceolate, deciduous. Sepals I in., broad-ovate, acute. 

 Petals I in., oval. Carpels many, shortly stalked. — M. Kurz sends detached fruits, 

 from which the description is taken. 



3. E. g*Iabra, //. /. (t T. ; leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong shortly acu- 

 minate quite coriaceous glabrous on both surfaces, cymes axillary 3-5- 

 flowered, carpels subglobose, stalk slender. 



Malacca, ifaivgay, 

 . A tree; brancblets and inflorescence brown-pubescent. Leaves 4-54 by lj'2 in., 

 base rounded or acute, rigid above, hardly shining, beneath rather paler, veins strong 

 arched ; petiole J-^ in., glabrous. Floivers 1^ in. diam., cymes l-lj in, ; peduncle very 

 short ; pedicels longer; bracteole oblong, J-amplexicaul, recurved. Sepals J in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, recurved. Petals flat, not clawed, outer 1 in. obovate-lanceolatc, sulv 

 acute; inner shorter, obovate, obtuse. Ovaries glabrous below, solid and strigose abo^^" 

 ovule 1, erect ^Maingay). Carpels | in., walls thin; stalk |-1J in,, slender. Sei<^ 

 oblong, pale, girt with a deep longitudinal furrow, — Very different in habit from i*^ 

 congeners. 



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lanceolate tinely acuminate coriaceous glabrous pale, nerves beneath strong 



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oblique, flowers solitary extra-axillary polygamous, carpels glabrous 



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