Uvaria. » POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 665 
Tnner three eepeygls larger and orbicular, Berries oval, two- 
seeded. © gle 
A tree of considerable size, a native ie Bengal. Flow- 
ering time March and April, and the berries ripen in June 
and July. *They are very much like black cherries. 
12. U. pilosa. R. 
Leaves oblong, entire, hairy, as are also the young 
shoots, petioles, and solitary one-flowered peduncles, 
Calyx hairy. Petals equal, smooth, and longer than the 
calyx. logins Dos 
A native of the Moluccas, | pes 
‘13. U. grandiflora. R. 
- Shrubby. Leaves cuneate-oblong, villous underneath, 
peduncles one-flowered. Petals sub-equal, obovate, flat. 
Berries long-peduncled, many-seeded. 
A native of Sumatra, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden in 1804, and in June 1809 they blossomed 
for the first time. Stem in our young plants short, and as 
thick as a man’s leg. Branches many, sub-bifarious, 
nearly erect, with their villous, round, extremities spread- 
ing ; the height of the plants about six feet. Leaves alter-, 
nate, bifarious, short-petioled, cuneate oblong, narrow- 
ing most towards the base and there rounded, with entire, 
margins and the apex rather acute, downy underneath, 
simple and parallel-veined, six inches long, and three. 
broad. Peduncles leaf-opposed, solitary, drooping, one-_ 
flowered, villous, from one to two-jointed near the middle, 
and in the aril of the lower bracte a flower bud and its 
bracte. Flowers very large, flat, about three inches in. 
diameter, of a crimson colour, gradually changing to very 
dark redjinodorous. Calyx three-parted ; divisions ovate, 
veined, villous. Petals six, nearly equal, the three. exte- 
rior ones oval, the three inner ones obovate-oblong, all are, 
obtuse, spread out flat; their texture is soft thick, and. 
: Fett 
