Uvaria. polyandria polygynia. 663 



cles between the leaves, one-flowered ; petals six, lanceo- 

 lar, very lono- and sericeous. 



A native of the moist vailies near Chittagong, where it 

 grows to be a ramous shrub of about six feet in height, it 

 Ijlossoms 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 small tree with long, 

 weak, sub-scandent branchlets, which are clothed with 

 much short, ferruginous down; the leaves are remarkably 

 large, often a foot long, and six inches broad, parallel- 

 veined, with the upper vsurface somewhat buUate, under- 

 neath villous. The flowers are of a dull reddish colour,, 

 and expand an inch and a half. 



9. U. heteroclita. R. 



Shrubby, scaudent. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate. 

 Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, male and female on the 

 same or diflerent plants. Berries many, sessile. 



Beng. Twbee-kMra. 



A large scandent shrub, 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 shrubby, 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 slilW- 

 lary, solitary, long-peduncled. Bractes some scales round 

 the base of the peduncles, one or two towards their mid- 



