in these respects, as well in the comparative fewness of the seeds in 

 their ripe carpels, they diverge from those of typical TJvaricB. Hooker 

 filius and Thomson (in their Flora ludica), Beutham and Hooker (in 

 their Genera Plautarum), and Baillon (in his Histoire des Plantes, Vol. 

 I,- 202, 281) retain Sageraea as a genue, — an example which I w^ould have 

 followed without any hesitation had not Sir Joseph Hooker united it 

 with Bocagea in his Flora of British India. The extreme imbrication 

 both of the sepals and petals appears to me however, in spite of Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's more recent view, so insurmountable an argument 

 against its reduction to a genus in which both these sets of organs are 

 very distinctly valvate, that I adhere to the earlier view that Sageraea 

 should remain distinct and be put in the tribe Uvarice. 



1. Sageraea elliptica. Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 93. A large 

 tree ; all parts glabrous except the ciliate petals ; young branches rather 

 stout, angled. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, acute (obtuse, when 

 very old) ; the base narrowed, obtuse or minutely cordate, oblique : both 

 surfaces shining; main nerves 14-to 16 pairs, spreading, faint; lengMi 8to 12 

 in., breadth 2-25 to 3'5 in. ; petiole *I5 in , very thick. Floivers monoe- 

 cious, solitary and axillary, or fascicled on tubercles on the larger 

 branches, small, red: pedicels '25 in. long, with several basal and medial 

 bracts. Sepals small, semi-orbicular, glabrous, ciliate. Petals thick, 

 ovate-orbicular, concave, tubercular outside, glabrous, the edges ciliate, 

 •25 in. long ; the inner smaller than the outer. Stamens 12 to 18, the 

 connective sub-quadrate at the apex ; anthers extrorse. Ovaries in female 

 flower about 3, glabrous ; ovules about 8. Bipe carpels sub-sessile, glo- 

 bose, glabrous, I in. in diam., seeds several. Sageraea Hookeri, Pierre Flore 

 Forest. Coch-Chine t. 15. Bocagea elliptica, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 92 ; Kurz F. Flora Burma, I, 50. Uvaria elliptica, A. DG. in Mem. Soc. 

 Genev. v. 27 ; Wall. Cat. 6470, 7421. Diospyrus? frondosa, Wall. Cat. 

 4125. 



Burmah to Penang. 



An imperfectly known species, badly represented in collections. 



3. Cyathostemma, Griffith. 



Scandent shrubs. Floivers subglobose in di- or tri-chotomous pendu- 

 lous cymes from the old wood (flowers dimoi-phous in sp. 3.) Sepals 3, 

 connate, hirsute. Petals 6, 2-scriatc, short, sub-equal, their bases fleshy, 

 all valvate at the base, the tips imbricate. Torus flat, margin convex. 

 Stamens many, linear ; anthers sub-intiorse ; process of connective ob- 

 lique, incurved. Ovaries many ; style cylindric, glabrous, notched ; ovules 

 many. Bipe carpels oblong-ovoid, many-seeded. 



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