Uvaria. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. ' 663 
cles between the leaves, one-flowered : ; petals six, anges 
lar, very long and sericeous. 
A native of the moist vallies near Chittagong, where it 
grows to be a ramous shrub of about six feet in height, it 
blossoms in June, and the seed ripens in November. 
8. U. macrophylla. R. 
Shrubby, spreading; leaves oblong, obtusely acuminate, 
base cordate. Peduncles (knobs) leaf-opposed, short, few- 
flowered, flowers rotate. Petals equal, obovate. 
Beng. Bagh-runga. . 
A large stout spreading shrub or y eitia tied with long, 
weak, sub-scandent branchlets, which are clothed with 
much short, ferraginous down; the leaves are remarkably 
large, often a foot long, and six inches broad, parallel- 
veined, with the upper surface somewhat bullate, under- 
neath villous. The flowers are of a dull reddish colour, 
and expand an inch and a half. | 
- 9. U. heteroclita. R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate. 
Pedunceles axillary, one-flowered, male and female on the 
same or different pints Berries many, sessile, 
Beng. Tubee-kura. © - 
‘A large scandent shed, a ‘native: of the Garrow hills 
and other mountainous districts in the vicinity of Silhet, 
where it blossoms about the beginning of the rains and the 
seed ripens in October and November. Young branch- 
lets smooth, glossy, green, with angles. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, oblong, and ovate-oblong, entire, except in young 
plants and slitublly: acutely serrulate-dentate, acuminate, 
smooth on both sides, from four to six inches long, and 
from one and a half to three broad. Petioles short, chan- 
nelled and coloured. Stipules none. Female flowers axil- 
lary, solitary, long-peduncled. Bractes some scales round 
the base of the peduncles, one or two tow: ards t 
