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Leaves membranous, oblanceolate-oblong, caudate-acuminate, the base 

 acute ; both surfaces glabrous shining and minutely reticulate ; the 

 midrib depressed above and puberulous, beneath pi-ominent and minutely 

 muriculate : main nerves 10 to 11 pairs, spreading, curved, sub-ascending, 

 prominent beneath, depressed above : length 8 to 9 in. ; breadth 22 

 to 2"5 in. ; petiole "15 in., tomentose. Cymes of hermaphrodite flowers 

 rufous-pubescent, 4 to 6 in. long ; pedicel about as long as the branches, 

 the latter with numerous distichous, oblong, nervose bracts. Flowers 4 

 to 5 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Sepals triangular, blunt, spread- 

 ing. Petals as in G. Scortechinii ; connective of stamens forming at the 

 apex a thick incurving point. Ovaries as in 0. Scortechinii but with 

 conical stigma. Cymes of female floivers much shorter than those of the 

 hermaphrodite, dichotomous, few-flowered, about TS in. long (of which 

 the peduncle is 1 in.) ; slightly rufous-pubescent ; bracts few, lanceolate. 

 Flowers about "4 in. in diam. when open, buds conical. Sepals bi-oadly 

 triangular, cordate, acute, spreading, pubescent. Petals coriaceous, 

 granular-pubescent, concave ; the outer broadly ovate-triangular, the 

 apex sub-acute, incurved in bud ; the inner row smaller, narrower, 

 erect, connivent. Stamens absent. Ovaries as in the hermaphrodite, 

 but the stigma larger, and not conical. 



Upper Perak ; Wray No. 3468. 



A remarkable species of which I have seen only Wray's incomplete 

 specimens. These specimens are accompanied by some loose young 

 carpels, ovate-globular, oblique, with persistent recurved styles, and a 

 single or at most two seeds. If these carpels really belong to the speci- 

 men, the definition of the genus will have to be modified. The sti'ucture 

 of both the hermaphrodite and pistillate flowers agrees perfectly with 

 that of the other species above described. 



4. UvARiA, Linn. 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs, usually stellately pubescent. Flow- 

 ers terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely axillary, cymose, fascicled or solitary, 

 yellow, purple or brown. Sepals 3, often connate below, valvate. Petals 6, 

 orbicular, oval or oblong, imbz'icate in 2 rows, sometimes connate at the 

 base. Stamens indefinite ; top of connective ovoid-oblong, truncate or 

 subfoliaceous. Torus depressed, pubescent or tomentose. Ovaries in- 

 definite, linear-oblong ; style short, thick ; ovules many, 2-seriate, rarely 

 few or 1-seriate. Ripe carpels many, dry or berried, few- or many- 

 seeded. — DiSTRiB. About 110 species — many tropical Asiatic, a few 

 African species, and some Australian. 



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