658 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Uvavia. 



mediately east of Bengal, and universally cultivated over 

 India. 

 I strongly suspect Louriero's A. asiaticais this very tree. 



UVARIA. Schreh. gen. n. 944. 



Gen. Char. Calyx three-leaved. Corol six-petalled. 

 Germs many, one-celled, seeds one or many ; attachment 

 interior. Berries many, pedicelled on a common recepta- 

 cle, one or more seeded. Embryo centripetal, and fur- 

 nished with ample perisperm. 



1. U. ventricosa. R. 



Arboreous, with a straight trunk and divergingbranches. 

 Leaves ovate, lanceolate, entire, shining. Fascicles leaf- 

 opposed, many-flowered. Calyx minute. Petals equal, 

 the inner three pitcher-shaped. Berries oval, from six to 

 seven-seeded. 



This elegant tree is a native of the eastern hilly and 

 mountainous provinces of Bengal, from Tippera it was 

 introduced by Mr. Stephen Harris into the Botanic garden, 

 where it blossoms in March and ripens its seed in July. 

 Trunk, in trees of eight or ten years' growth, thick as 

 as a man's thigh, perfectly erect, and straight, covered 

 with smooth, ash-coloured bark. Branches numerous, 

 diverging, with apices somewhat curved up. Height of 

 the young trees twenty-live or thirty feet. Leaves alter- 

 nate, bifarious, short-petioled, broad, ovate-lanceolate, 

 entire, taper, obtuse-pointed, recurvate, or drooping, of a 

 very firm texture, and shining, from four to eight inches 

 long, and from one to three broad. Peduncles, or rather, 

 fascicles solitary, nearly leaf-opposed, very short, general- 

 ly bearing from ten to fifteen, long-pedicelled, somewhat 

 drooping, pitcher-shaped, greenish white, fragrant flowers, 

 which expand in succession. Bractes ovate, solitary at 

 the base of each pedicel, with a smaller one near the mid- 



