UnOJia. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 669 



joints linear-oblong or sub-cylindric, smooth. Seeds one 

 in each joint and of the same form, smooth. Integument 

 polished, of the consistence of parchment. Embryo in 

 the base of the perisperm, two-valved, from its inside innu- 

 merable fibres project exactly as in Uvaria. See Gmrf. 

 sem. 2. 155. t. 114. 



2. U. discolor. Vahl. s. 2. p. 63. t 36. Willd. 2. 127. 



Arboreous. Leaves bifarious, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 smooth. Peduncles one-flowered. Berries from two to 

 four, jointed ,- joints globular. 



Uvaria monilifera. Gcert. sent. 2. 156. t. 114. 



Teling. Chilika doodooga. 



A pretty large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of 

 the Northern Circars and the country near Chittagong. 

 Trunk straight, with a thin, conical, tapering head ; bark 

 scabrous. Branchlets bifarious, spreading. Leaves alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, bifarious, from oblong to lanceolate, 

 waved, smooth, pointed, from three to six inches long and 

 about two broad. Peduncles leaf-opposed, or between the 

 leaves, rather more than an inch long bracted below the 

 middle, each supporting a single large, yellowish, serice- 

 ous, drooping flower. Calyx, three-leaved ; leaflets oblong, 

 conical, acute, much shorter than the corol, caducous. 

 Petals six, lanceolate, sericeous, the three inner ones con- 

 siderably smaller than the others. Stamina numerous, 

 wedge-shaped, crowned with a large truncate brownish 

 gland. Anthers a line on each side from the gland to the 

 base. Germs about twenty, linear, densely clothed with 

 ferruginous down. Style scarcely any. Stigma recurved, 

 glandular, naked. Berries several, short-pedicelled, com- 

 posed of from two to four roundish-oval, pretty smooth 

 joints, attached to a firm globular receptacle. Seed soli- 

 tary, round oval. Integument single, brown, thin, hard, 

 and polished. Perisperm conform to the seed, hard per- 

 forated, &c. as described by Gaertner. 



