1 8 AnonaceCB. [Uvaria. 



stigma broad, sessile ; fruit-head of many usually stalked 

 carp., fleshy or dry, few- or several-seeded. — Sp. about 35; 



19 in Fl. B. hid. 



Outer stam. subfoliaceous, flat. 



Ripe carp, sessile or nearly so . . . i. U. sphenocarpa. 



Ripe carp, stalked, smooth . . . . 2. U. macrophylla. 



Ripe carp, long-stalked, tomentose . . 3. U. semecarpifolia. 

 Stam. all similar. 



Ripe carp, linear-oblong on very long stalks . 4. U. MACROPODA. 



Ripe carp, ovoid, smooth, scarlet . . . 5. U. Narum. 



Ripe carp, ovoid, pubescent, yellowish . 6. U. zeylanica. 



1. U. sphenocarpa, Hk. f. and Th. FL Ind. 99 (1855). 

 Thw. Enum. 6. C. P. 1045. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 48. Beddome Ic. t. 80. 



A straggling shrub, young shoots fulvous-tomentose with 

 stellate hairs ; 1. shortly stalked, oblong-oval, tapering, acu- 

 minate, rounded at base, glabrous above, stellate-tomentose 

 beneath ; fl. solitary, ped. leaf-opposed, bracts several, small, 

 rotundate ; cal. cup-shaped, truncate, densely fulvous-tomen- 

 tose ; pet. ovate, acute, spreading, finely tomentose on 

 both sides ; ripe carp. | in. or more long, sessile, cuneate- 

 obovate, deeply grooved and worted, densely fulvous- 

 tomentose. 



Low country up to about 1 500 ft. ; in both dry and moist regions rather 

 rare. Haragama ; Sigiri ; Galagama ; Mawarelle, S. Prov. Fl. July ; 

 pale yellow. 



Endemic. 



2. 17. macrophylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 663 (1832). 

 Thw. Enum. 6. C. P. 3327. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 49. Bedd. Ic. t. 81. 



A large woody climber, shoots with dense fulvous stellate 

 tomentum ; 1. large, 6-8 in. long, petioled, broadly oval or 

 obovatc, abruptly acuminate entire, sparsely stellate-hairy 

 above, densely stellate-pubescent beneath ; ped. 2-5-fld., leaf- 

 opposed ; fl. large, i-i^- in. diam. ; cal. cup-shaped, more or 

 less 3-lobcd, densely stellate-tomentose ; pet. roundish densely 

 tomentose on both sides ; outer stam. barren, flattened ; ripe 

 carp, i^ in. long, shortly stalked, smooth. 



Moist low country ; rare. Matara ; Mawarelle. Fl. Feb., August, 

 Sept.; pinkish-red. 



Also in East Bengal, Malay Peninsula, and Java. 



The ripe fruit is said to be black, and to be eaten by the Sinhalese. 



U. purpurea^ Bl., a native of Java, with handsome purple-red fl., was 

 long ago introduced to Ceylon, and is occasionally found in a half-wild 

 state here. 



