658 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Uvaria. 
‘mediately east of Bengal, and universally cultivated over 
India. 7 Lil, 
I strongly suspect Louriero’s A. asiatica is this very tree. 
UVARIA. Schreb. gen. n. 944. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx three-leaved. Corol six-petalled. 
‘Germs many, one-celled, seeds one or many ; attachment — 
interior. Berries many, pedicelled on a common recepta- 
cle, one or more seeded. Embryo centripetal, and fur- 
nished with ample perisperm, 
1. U. ventricosa. R. 
Arboreous, with a straight trunk and diverging branches. 
Leaves ovate, lanceolate, entire, shining. Fascicles leaf- 
‘opposed, many-flowered. Calyx minute. Petals equal, 
the inner three pitcher-shaped. Berries oval, from six to 
seven-seeded. 
This elegant tree is a native of the onsteen hilly and 
mountainous provinces of Bengal, from Tippera it. was 
introduced by Mr. Stephen Harris into the Botanic garden, 
where it blossoms in March and ripens its seed in July. 
_ Trunk, in trees of eight or ten years’ growth, thick as 
as a man’s thigh, perfectly erect, and straight, covered 
with smooth, ash-coloured bark. Branches numerous, 
_ diverging, with apices somewhat curved up. Height of 
_ the young trees’ twenty-five or thirty feet. _ Leaves alter- 
nate, bifarious, short-petioled, broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
entire, taper, obtuse-pointed, recurvate, or drooping, © of a 
very firm texture, and shining, from four to eight inches 
~ long, and from one to three broad. Peduncles, or rather, 
fascicles solitary, nearly leaf-opposed, very short, general- 
ly bearing from ten to fifteen, long-pedicelled, somewhat 
drooping, pitcher-shaped, greenish white, fragrant flowers, 
which os Pua succession, Bractes ovate, solitary: at 
