660 _ -POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA, Uvaria, 
only female, but in size and colour the same. Male calyx 
in this species must be described to consist of three, ovate, 
equal, lanceolate leaflets. Petals six, nearly adhering 
to each other from the middle downwards, resembling a 
monopetalous corol, hairy, much longer than the calyx, 
red, Stamina numerous, covering the whole sub-globular 
receptacle. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers turbinate, 
with a polleniferous groove on each side. Germs none. 
Female calyx and corol asin the male. Stamina, none. — 
Germs numerous, covering the whole of the receptacle, 
hairy, one-celled ; and containing one ovula, attached to 
the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma recurved, 
large and obtuse. Berries numerous, long-pedicelled, of 
the size of a pea, smooth, one-celled; seed solitary. Peris- 
perm round, conform to the seed, deeply penetrated with 
brown fissures, with the small, straight embryo, lodged in 
its base, clese to the umbilicus. 
3. U. bracteata. R. 
Scandent, twigs villous. Leaves from lanceolate to 
oblong, villous. Peduncles between the leaves two-flow- 
ered, amply bracted, Calyx three-parted. Petals six, oval 
and nearly equal. Berries oval, of the size of a pullet’s 
Jupa-bun Kula is the vernacular name in Silhet where 
it is indigenous; flowers in May, and the fruit ripens in 
September, and is then very inviting to the eye. | Trunk 
and branches climbing over trees to a very consid 
extent; the young shoots are round and very downy- 
Leaves bifarious, alternate, short-petioled, from lanceo- 
late to oblong, entire, downy, particularly while young, 
from four to eight inches long, and two to three broad. 
Peduncles lateral, between the leaves, very downy, bifid, 
two-flowered. Flowers small, of a pale yellowish white, 
drooping. Bractes large and downy, one at the division 
othe s common short pedencle: and one on each ee 
