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phrodite. Sepals 3, often connate at the base, broad, valvate. Petals 6, 

 orbicular, ovate or oblong, imbricate in 2 series, sometimes connate at 

 the base. Stamens indefinite ; connective produced beyond the cells, 

 subfoliaceous or truucate. Torus depressed, pubescent or tomentose. 

 Ovaries indelinite, liuear-oblong ; ovules many, 2-seriate ; style short, 

 thick. Kipe carpels numerous, dry or berried, few- or many-seeded. — 

 DiSTEiB. Tropical Asia and Africa with a few Australiau species ; species 

 about 110. 



Capsules blunt at each end ; peduncles slender ; seeds in a single 



row 1. U. Nartim. 



Capsules tapering to each end ; peduncles thick ; seeds in a double 

 row 2. U. Hookeri. 



1. Uvaria Narum, Blame, Fl. Java, Anon. (1828) p. 5. A large 

 climber. Leaves 2-6 by 1-1 1 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, reticulately veined ; petioles short, less than 

 I in. long. Flowers reddish, 1 in. in diam., solitary, terminal ; pedicels 

 l-lg in. long. Sepals orbicular-ovate, connate at the base, refiexed, 

 minutely stellately tomentose. Petals usually 6, sometin)es 7-8, ovate 

 or oblong, comiate at the base. Connective of anthers produced at the 

 apex, broad, truncate. Carpels ^-| in. long, and about j in. in diam., 

 numerous, scarlet, glabrous, slightly torulose, on slender stalks g-| in. 

 long. Seeds chestnut-brown, suborbicular, in a single ro«', usually 4-5, 

 those at the ends of the carpels plano-convex, the intermediate ones 

 compressed, nearly flat. PI. B. I. v. 1, p. 50 ; Grrah. Cat. p. '6 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 3 ; Trim. PI. Cevl. p. 19 ; King, in Ann. Hoy. Bot. Gard. 

 Calcutta, V. 4, part 1 (1893) "p. 27, and part 2, t. 21 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. 

 p. 3; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. ]1 (1897) p. 120; AVatt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 217. Uvaria lurida, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 3 

 {not of PL B. I.).— Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : Balzell !, Law I, Stocks ! S. M. Country: Parwa GbAt, Woodrow. Kaxaka : 

 Talhot. 



2. Uvaria Hookeri, King, in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, v. 4, 

 part 1 (1893) p. 28. A climbing shrub ; all parts except the inflorescence 

 glabrous. Leaves as in U. JSfarum, but larger (G-9 in. long). Flowers 

 as in U. Narnm, but larger (1-1 1 in. in diam.). Carpels ovoid, tapering 

 to the end, their peduncles thick, lg-2 in. long. Seeds in two rows. 

 Otherwise as in U. Narum. U. Narum, AVall. Cat. 6473 (in part) ; AVight, 

 111. V. 1, p. 19, t. 6 ; Hook. f. & Thorns. PI. Lid. p. 102 (in part) ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 3. Var. 2, rnacropliylla. Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 50. 



In the Fl. Ind. of Hook. f. & Thorns, p. 102, the authors remarked 

 that it was not improbable that more than one species had been con- 

 founded under U. Narum. Sir George King has separated U. Narum 

 into 2 species, founding the new species tJ. Uoolceri, which differs from 

 his U. Narum in having biseriate seeds, carpels tapering at one end, 

 larger leaves and flowers, and longer and thicker stalks to the carpels. 



Forests of the Western Ghats, Kiny, 1. c. 



2. ARTABOTRYS, E. Br. 



Shrubs, usually sarmentose or scandeut. Flowers solitary or fascicled, 

 often fragrant, usually on woody, hooked, recurved branches {liedundes). 



