34 VI. ANONACE^. [Uvaria. 



4-seeded. Seeds plano-convex. Hah. Forests up to about 2500 ft. 

 altitude. Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Thaiping Hills at the Tea 

 Gardens ; Lankawi islands, Terutau (Haniff) ; Penang, Telok Bahang 

 and Balik Pulau (Curtis). 



(12) U. excelsa Wall. Cat. 6477; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 I.e. 22; Ann. Bot. Gard Calc. I.e. 30, pi. 26. Mitrephora excelsa 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 79. 



A liane 30 to 100 ft. long ; young pacts stellate-pubescent, soon 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous oblanceolate obovate-oblong to ellip- 

 tic acuminate, base minutely cordate, above glabrous except the 

 puberulous midrib, beneath tomentose ; nerves 10 pairs ; 3-5 to 

 7*5 in. long, 1-5 to 4 in. wide; petioles -3 to -5 in. long, pubescent. 

 Flowers white, -35 to -4 in. across, axillary or in contracted cymes, 

 below the leaves ; pedicels -2 in. long, tomentose. Bracts large 

 close to flower. Sepals semi-orbicular acute valvate, tomentose 

 outside. Petals imbricate only at tips thick concave pubescent 

 on both faces, outer broadly ovate acute, little larger than the sepals, 

 inner about as large as the sepals. Anthers numerous, appendages 

 thick sub-quadrate pubescent. Carpels sub-globular obovoid blunt 

 tomentose, i-i in. long, -9 in. wide. Seeds 14 in 2 rows, fiat, half- 

 oval. Hah. Forests. Perak; Goping and Larut (Kunstler). 

 Malacca; Selangor. Penang (Wallich, Curtis). Disirih. Cochin- 

 China. 



Aberrant in the petals being imbricate at the tips only. 



(13) U. astrosticta Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 370; Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. Liigd. Bat. ii. 8; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 23; Ann. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 3A. 



Young branches deciduously stellate-tomentose with hairs 

 intermixed. Leaves coriaceous oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base 

 rounded above scaberulous, nerves sometimes pubescent, beneath 

 tomentose, later stellate pubescent ; nerves 12 to 16 pairs, 4 to 

 6 in. long, 1-5 to i-8 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. Peduncle extra- 

 axillary, '3 in. long, 2- to 3-flowered, stellate-tomentose with 2 or 3 

 sub-rounded bracts. Flowers -6 in. across. Sepals reniform sub- 

 acute united half-way. Petals nearly 3 times as long, broadly 

 oval slightly obovate sub-acute pubescent. Anthers 3 outer ones 

 barren, appendages flat, truncate. Torus hairy. Hah. Very rare. 

 Perak (Scortechini). Disirih. Sumatra. 



(14) U. sub-repanda Wall. Cat. 6483; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 50; 

 King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 23; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 32, pi. 117. 



Tree. Young parts pubescent, branches very slender. Leaves 

 thin obovate-oblong acute, base round cordate, midrib above 

 pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; nerves 10 to 14 pairs, fine elevate 

 beneath; 5 to 7-5 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -15 to -25 in. 

 long, scaly. Flowers axillary stellate-tomentose -5 in. across; 

 pedicel -75 in. long. Bracts sub-orbicular. Sepals broad and short. 



