662 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Uvaria. 
gular, obtuse divisions united at the base, yellow. Fila- 
ments shorter than the germs, each headed. with a large, 
roundish, subulate, pointed gland. © Anthers a groove 
on each side below the heads. Germ many, sessile, 
linear, one-celled, with two vertical rows of ovula there-’ 
in attached-to the innerangle. Styles scarcely any. The 
stigmas, are so firmly united into one solid, hemispheric, 
glandular body that they cannot be separated. Berries 
about a dozen on pretty long pedicels, from a hemispheric 
umbel, singly oblong, about the size’ of a small olive, 
smooth, when ripe black. Seeds from six to twelve, se- 
parated by the soft greenish pulp of the berry, flattened, 
ovate, or nearly so, pitted. Perisperm and embryo as in 
the genus. See Gert. Sem. 2. 155. ¢. 114. 
5. U. fornicata. R. 
Scandent. Leaves cuneate-lanceolate. Peduncles he- 
tween the leaves, one-flowered ; the exterior three petals 
large, and lanceolate, the inner three small, and coalesced » 
into a cone over the genitalia. 
Beng. Yatamala. viet 
A large’ scandent shrub, a native of Silhet, where it 
flowers in May and June. 
6. U. bicolor. R. 4 ¢ 
Scandent. Leaves linear, oblong, wicidih iidtte, pain 
veined, a little hairy underneath. Peduncles one or two 
between and opposite to the leaves. Petals’ six, nearly 
equal; the exterior three, brown and hirsute, the inner 
three, smooth and red. Berries s spherical, vet villous, 
from four to eight-seeded. 
: o large, stout, scandent shrub, a native of Silhet; it 
flowers in mee. and: the fruit Hip daring the rains. t 
a, ‘UU; cordifolia. R. 
