Uvaria.] vi. anonace/i;. 33 



A lofty climbing liane, forming a large mass on tree-tops; 

 young branches densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, 

 stiff, narrowly elliptic to oblong obtuse or bluntly acuminate, base 

 round or cordate, above glabrous, below pubescent ; nerves 10 to 

 14 pairs; 2-5 to 6 in. long, 1-25 to 3 in. wide. Racemes terminal, 

 umbellate, few-flowered, 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, tomentose. Bracts 

 numerous imbricate, round or ovate tomentose. Flower 1-5 in. 

 across. Sepals small, -3* in. long, orbicular connate half-way, 

 tomentose outside, puberulous within. Petals much larger con- 

 nivent ovate rounded blunt, inner 3 narrower, tomentose outside, 

 pubescent inside. Anthers cuneate, appendages short truncate. 

 Pistils longer stellate hairy; ovules i to 3. Carpels numerous, 

 sub-globose mucronate tomentose, -35 to '5 in. through, stalk -5 to 

 •75 in. long, slender. Seeds i or 2. Hab. In dense forests probably 

 common, but difficult to get. Johor; Gunong Pulai. Malacca 

 (Maingay). Penang, highlands (Curtis). 



(10) U. Scortechinii /v/'n^, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 20; Ann. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 25, p. 17. 



Sarmentose, flexuous shrub ; young branches and petioles densely 

 rusty-floccose. Leaves coriaceous elliptic to elliptic-round, blunt, 

 base rounded, above glabrous except nerves, tomentose beneath; 

 nerves and reticulations prominent, red-hairy; nerves 10 to 12 

 pairs, doubly inarching within the edge, 4 to 7 in. long, 2-5 to 4 in. 

 wide; petioles -2 to -4 in. long. Flowers 1-5 in. across in terminal 

 umbels of 2- to 3- or many-flowered panicles, 4 in. long; peduncles 

 ■5 to -75 in. long. Bracts numerous, ovate-orbicular, covered like 

 the branches of inflorescence with flocculent tomentum. Sepals 

 fleshy triangular sub-acute, lower third connate pubescent. Petals 

 I in. long, connivent ; outer 3 ovate-round, quite blunt, tomentose- 

 pubescent on both sides, inner 3 obovate, clawed, pubescent out- 

 side, glabrous inside except a broad pubescent band. Anthers 

 sessile, appendages truncate, almost peltate. Pistils several with 

 a few stellate hairs. Ovules 2 to 3. Hab. Very rare. Perak 

 (Scortechini) . 



(11) U. micrantha Hook. fil. and Thorn. Fl. Ind. 103 ; Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, i. 51; King, Journ. As. Soe. Beng. I.e. 21; Ann. Bot. Gard. 

 Gale. I.e. 26, pi. 18. 



Large liane; young branches tomentose, adult glabrous, dark 

 with pale warts. Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong-lanceolate, base 

 rounded or slightly cuneate, glabrous except pubescent midrib ; 

 nerves very inconspicuous 12 to 15 pairs; 2-5 to 5-5 in. long, 

 •8 to 1-4 in. wide; petioles -15 in. long. Peduncles terminal or 

 axillary, very short, 2- to 4-flowered, tomentose. Bracts orbicular. 

 Flowers -4 in. across, greenish yellow. Sepals round pubescent 

 outside. Petals broadly ovate sub-obtuse minutely tomentose 

 outside, pubescent inside. Anthers very pale rose. Carpels numer- 

 ous, ovoid globose, round at each end stalked, glabrous, 2- to 



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