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Leaves glabrous except the midrib, 25 to 

 5 in. long ; flowers less than '5 in, in 

 diam. ... ... ... 12. U. micrantha. 



Flowers small (less than "5 in. in diam.) 



Leaves glabrous except the midrib ... 12. U. micranlha. 



Leaves pubescent. 



Leaves on under-surface stellate rufous- 

 pubescent ; young branches and flow- 

 ers outside with scurfy rufous tomen- 

 tum 

 Leaves on under surface and young 

 branches minutely tawny-tomentose .. 

 Species of doubtful position. 



Probably near U. Lohbiana ... 

 With axillary flowers 



1. UvARiA Larep, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber 20 

 to 4)0 feet long : youngest branches and petioles sparsely covered with 

 minute scaly stellate hairs ; the older cinereous, lenticellate, glabrescent. 

 Leaves membranous, elliptic or sub-obovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub-emarginate, 

 not cordate, base : upper surface glabrous, shining, the midrib minutely 

 tomentose ; lower surface with a few short spreading hairs on the midrib 

 and some of the nerves, otherwise almost glabrous ; main nerves 10 to 

 12 pairs, spreading, interarching within the edge, bold in the lower, im- 

 pressed on the upper, surface ; length of blade 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 

 3 in., petiole '2 to "3 in. Peduncles from half-way between the leaves, 

 •1 in. long, I- to 2-flowered (one of the flowers often abortive), warted 

 and yellowish-pubescent ; pedicels 76 in. long, with 1 or 2 reniform 

 bracts : flowers TS to 1"75 in. in diam. Sepals small, ("2 in. long) reniform, 

 united at the base, I'eflexed, pubescent. Petals oblong-oblanceolate, sub- 

 acute, about "75 in. long, sub-coi'iaceous, puberulous. Anthers sessile in 

 very few rows, flattened ; the connective slightly produced, flattened, 

 oblique. Ovaries numerous, angled, puberulous, with a few long pro- 

 jecting hairs near the apex. Torus of the fruit small, sub-globular, 

 pubescent. Pipe carpels numerous, stalked, cylindric-oblong, oblique, 

 curved, slightly apiculate, rugulose, minutely rufous-pubescent, I 25 to 

 1*6 in. long, and 5 in. in diam. Seeds about 10, in 2 rows, compressed, 

 shining. Stalks l"25 to 1"5 in. long, rufous-tomentose. 



Ferak: King's Collector, No. 4011, Wray No. 1826. 



2. UvARiA Hamiltoni, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 96, A 

 262 



