Melo(brum.] iv. anonace^. (Hook, f. & Thorns.) 81 



puberulous beneath, flowers | in. solitary, calyx obtusely triangular, carpels 

 cyliudric rough, ends rounded. 



Malacca, Maingay, 



Branches very dark. Leaves 3-4J bj IJ-ll, base rounded, coriaceous, hard, midrib 

 slender, puberulous, nerves many slender diverging ; petiole 4-| in., pubescent. Flowers 

 axillary cemuous ; buds short, pyramidal, appressed brown-pubescent ; peduncle short, 

 taick, bract obscure. Calyx J in. diam. Outer petals triangular-ovate, 3-quetrous, 

 Mse excavated ; inner very small indeed, triangular, glabrous. Torus as in 

 Ji. MaingayL Top of connective orbicular. Ovaries^ 4-6 silky-pubescent. Bipe 

 ^^'yf'* 1-1| byJ-3 in,^ curved, brown-pubescent, walls very thin ; stalk \ in., stout. 

 ^tds, many J in. long, 2-serIate, horizontal, testa shining, not margined; aril small, 

 cartilaginous. 



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.Leaves glabrous or minutely sparsely pubescent beneath. (See 



I and cymidncum.) 



i. 



Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed cymes or fascicles. 



Wt. Wallichii, H. f 



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Y' «*• wauicnu, n.j. dr 1\ FL liid. 118; leaves narrow ooiong-iaii- 

 ceolate acute or acuminate sparsely pilose beneath veins distant, outer petals 

 4 m , carpels subglobose tomentose.— Uvaria bicolor. Wall. Cat. 6466, not of 



Eastern Bengal, in Assam and Silhet, Wallich, &c. 



A large woody climber, young parts with slight golden pubescence. Leaves 4-7 by 



U-'^i in., base rounded, pale beneath and hairy chiefly on the midrib and distant 

 jerves; petiole Jin. '^' - .. • . • -^^ .'r :. r..„„-„i.„ . ^., 



JiD ; bracts 1-2, ova 



_ ., _ _.rmin 



ate. basal. Sepals sma 



n,„ — — , hoary, brown-purple, 



mucronate; stalk 1 in. ^' ^ ^ 



FT 



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orl **7 Polyanthum, H. f & T. Ft. Ind. 121- leaves narrow oblong 

 yrianceolateusuallv arnfp of KnfTi mi.l^ mitinfplv nnhpsnfint beneath, outer 



petals i in. 



polyantha. Wall 



'orests of the Khasia HILLS, Silhet, and Assam. . 



8-10 ho o? • y climber; branches blackish, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by l-U "'•. o^ 

 JTo / V° ' ^'^^^^ °'' sharply acuminate, pale beneath ; petiole \-l in., glabrate. 

 Pedipfil 1™ ' ^•~'^' '" leaf-opposed cymes ; peduncle short, woody, hoary, soon glabrate ; 

 ovatP I '"■' ^^*^ ^ ^'■'^^^ scale and a median orbicular deciduous bracteole. Sepals 

 Pub^o.^!f •"^®' ^''^^- Outer petals ovate, silky outside ; inner about half the size, 

 P^oesceat without, glabrous witfiin. 



^. rufinerve, //./. <k T. Fl. Ind. 12\ ; lea\ 

 glabrous glaucous beneath, flowers minute. 



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ly2i-4- , ^^^^''"^er; branches glabrous; buds golden-pubescent. Leaves 6-10 

 ««Bt Kf ^®j roiiQtted or retuse ; petiole glabrous, 4-| in. Budi minute, in pubes- 

 •Pecies L^^°.^'^ ^y™es ; P^'dicels i m. ; bracteole small, median.— A very distiuct 

 t"«s, m an immature condition. 



Fl(/w 



. w^^r* ^,^^1^^/, solitary, or appearing racemose only throiu/h the /all 

 of i/i^ Jtoral leaves. i^t- if 



'ounde?V^''?®™***««"i» ff'f' ^' 1'' Fl Ind. 121 ; leaves 5-9 in. oblong 

 <>ttter npf^i **^r'iPtly acuminate glabrous brown beneath, sepals connate, 

 Prismatir.. Sr^7,^^ 2 in., carpels oblong obtuse tubercled glabrous.— Uvaria 

 "wuca, Wgll. Cat. 6455. Pyramidantbe rufa^ Mi^. Ann. u. 39. 



^OUr ' - ^'^ccA and Su'CAPOEE, WaUich, &c.—!Distbib. Borneo. 





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