660 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. UvaVia. 



only female, but in size and colour the same. Male calyx 

 in this species must be described to consist of three, ovate, 

 equal, lanceolate leaflets. Petals six, nearly adhering 

 to each other from the middle downwards, resembling a 

 monopetalous corol, hairy, much longer than the calyx, 

 red. Stamina numerous, covering the whole sub-globular 

 receptacle. Filaments scarcely Any. ^n^Aers turbinate, 

 with a polleniferoiis groove on each side. Germs none. 

 Female calyx and corol as in tlie male. Stamina, none. 

 Germs numerous, covering the whole of the receptacle, 

 hairy, one-celled ; and containing one ovula, attached to 

 the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma recurved, 

 large and obtuse. Berries numerous, long-pedicelled, of 

 the size of a pea, smooth, one celled ; seed solitary. Peris- 

 perm round, conform to the seed, deeply penetrated with 

 brown fissures, with the small straight embryo, lodged in 

 its base, close to the umbilicus. 



3. U. bracteata. R. 



Scandent, twigs villous. Leaves from lanceolate to 

 oblong, villous. Peduncles between the leaves two-flow- 

 ered, amply bracted. Ca/yx thrre-parted. Petals six, oval 

 and nearly equal. Berries oval, of the size of a pullet's 



egg. 



Jwpa-bwn Kwla is the vernacular name in Silhet where 

 it is indigenous; flowers in May, and the fruit ripens in 

 September, and is then very inviting to the eye. Trunk 

 and branches climbing over trees to a very considerable 

 extent; the young shoots are round and very downy. 

 Leaves hilarious, alternate, short- petioled, from lanceO' 

 late to oblong, entire, downy, particularly while young, 

 from four to eight inches long, and two to three broad. 

 Peduncles lateral, between the leaves, very downy, bifid, 

 two-flowered. Flowers small, of a pale yellowish white, 

 drooping. Bractes large and downy, one at the division 

 of the common short peduncle and one on each pedicel. 



