182 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Lamarck really meant the Narum Panel or the Funis musarius 

 latifolius by their Uvaria zeylanica I cannot say ; but in the 

 Hortus Kewensis Rheede alone is quoted. Dr. Roxburgh, who 

 does not seem to have seen the Narum Panel, described a spe- 

 cies of Uvaria, which he had received from Sumatra, and called 

 it U. grandijiora. In the Hortus Bengalensis (43.) he quotes no 

 synonyma ; but I compared his plant with one which I found in 

 the N.E. parts of Bengal, and which I have no doubt is the 

 Funis musarius latifolius, and it is quite different from the Na- 

 rum Panel. This difference did not escape the notice of M. Du- 

 nal in his treatise on the Anonacea {Enc. Metfi. Supp. v. 779-)» 

 where he quotes, by the proper name, the Funis musaritis lati- 

 folius for his Unona musaria : but he errs in calling it an Unona, 

 as it is undoubtedly of the same genus with the Narum Panel, the 

 prototype of the genus Uvaria. The synonyma, given by Lin- 

 naeus in the Flora Zeylanica, for the Narum Panel, so far as relates 

 to the older writers, without addition or alteration, are therefore 

 correct; and I shall now add a description, which I took in 

 Malabar, where I found the plant flowering in December 1800. 



Frutex scandens ramulis teretibus, glabris. Folia alterna, bi- 

 faria, ovato-oblonga, integerrima, utrinque acuta, utrinque 

 nitida, venosa, plana. Petiolus teres, canaliculatus, bre- 

 vissimus, stipulis nudus. Pedunculus prima facie terminalis 

 videtur, sed prodeunte surculo revere oppositifolius, soli- 



J< tarius, petiolo triplo longior, uniflorus, teres, nudus. Flores 

 nutantes, magni, virides. Calyx patentissimus, coriaceus, 

 3- vel 4-fidus laciniis subrotundis, concavis. Petala Q seu 8 

 duplice serie posita, basi coalita, ovata, concava, acuminata, 

 coriacea, subsequalia. Antherce plurimfe, angulatae, imbri- 

 catae peripheriam receptaculi hemisphaerici tegunt, Ger- 

 mina plura, antheris similia, centrum receptaculi occupant. 

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