Uvaria. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 661 
Calyx three-parted. Segments sub-orbicular, downy. Pe- 
tals six, much larger than the calyx, nearly equal, oval, 
concave. Filaments numerous, short. Anthers, a groove 
on each side of the filaments. Germs many, in the disk, 
surrounded with the stamina, linear, downy, one-celled; 
ovula many, in two rows ; attached to the inside of the 
cell. Style scarcely any. Stigma bidentate. Berries 
few, pendulous, of the size of a small pullet’s egy, from 
oval to oblong, obtuse at both ends, smooth, when ripe 
of a rich yellow. Seeds a few, oval, compressed, smooth, 
rather longer than those of the common Tamarind, and of 
the same colour, and appearance. Perisperm and mre 
as in eishe genus, 
ie v. era Willd. 2. p. 1262. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, waved. Peduncle three-flower- 
ed, drooping. Petals equal, linear, acute, very long. | 
Cananga. Rumph. Amb. 2. 195. t. 65, 
A native of the Malay Islands, and east of the Bay 
‘of Bengal. From Sumatra it was introduced into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1797, the largest of them, 
now 1809, has a trunk thirty-six inches in circumfer- 
ence, four feet above ground, and rather tall in pro- 
portion, it flowers and ripens its seed at various times 
of the year. Trunk straight throughout. - Bark smooth, 
ash-coloured. Branches from patent to diverging. Young 
shoots round and smooth. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
short-petioled, drooping, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, — 
with the margins entire but waved, smooth on both sides, 
from four to eight inches elong, and from two to four 
broad. Stipules none. Flowers in small fascicles of gene- 
rally three, on very short peduncles from the buds of the 
shoots of the former year’s growth, large, drooping, of a 
pale yellow, odorous. Pedicels pretty long, recurvate, 
villous, Bractes a few, small, recurvate on the ‘short pe- 
duncles and base of the pedicels, ‘Calyx of three an- 
