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petiole "2 in., stout. Peduncles 5 in. long, lateral, not axillary, 1-flowered, 

 solitary or 2 to 3 together, each bearing a small ovate deciduous bract ; 

 buds ovoid-globose, tomentose ; flowers r25 to 15 in. in diam. Sepals 

 broadly triangular, sub-acute, slightly reflexed, fleshy, tomentose on 

 both surfaces. Petals much longer than the sepals, sub-coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, sub-acute, sub-reflexed, minutely tomentose on the outer 

 surface ; pubescent on the inner. Stamens and pistils forming a compact 

 hemispheric mass ; anthers sub-sessile, 'I in. long, the connective much 

 produced at the apex, compressed, oblique. Ovaries numerous, densely 

 crowded, slightly shorter than the stamens, tomentose. Torus depressed- 

 hemispheric, stellate-tomentose, pitted when adult. liijje carpels numer- 

 ous, stalked, ovoid, oblique, blunt, much and unequally tubercalate, 

 densely and loosely ferruginous stellate-tomentose as are the 1 in. long 

 stalks. DO. Prod. I, 88 ; Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Ind. 98; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 21 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 8. Z7. javana, Dunal 

 Anon. 01, t. 14 ; Blume Bijdr. 12 ; Fl. Javae t. 3 and 13 B. ; DC. Prod. 

 T, 88 ? U. aurita Blume Fl. Javse t. 3. 



Malacca, Griffith ; Maingay (Kew Destrib.), No. 25. Perak, King's 

 Collector. Peuang, Curtis, No. 1414. 



As regards the size of its leaves and the colour of its flowers (which 

 appear to vary from green though yellow to purple) this is rather a 

 variable species. One of its forms, barely distinguishable from the type, 

 was named U. javana by Dunal who also gave a figure of it. Blume, 

 who again figured U. javana, distinguished it from Z7. dulcis by the 

 stellate (not simijle) hairs on the upper surface of its leaves. But, as 

 Hook. fil. and Th. point out (Fl. Ind. 98), both kinds of hairs occur oa 

 the same leaf. In all the specimens named Z7. javana, x'eceived from the 

 Dutch Botanists, the leaves are much smaller and less denselly woolly 

 below than those collected in the Malay Peninsula. Miquel suggests 

 that U. aurita, Bl. is only a form of this. By neither figuring nor 

 describing the fruit of what he understood as TJ. dulcis, aurita and 

 javana, Blume neglected one of the best characters in this rather per- 

 plexing genus ; and it may be that when fruit of the small-leaved Java 

 species issued from the Herbarium of Buitenzorg shall be forthcoming, the 

 reductions above made will have to be cancelled. 



4. UvARiA LoBBiANA, H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 100. A powerful clim- 

 ber, often reaching 100 to 160 feet in length : young branches pubescent, 

 ultimately glabrous and dark-coloured. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong 

 or oblong-oblanceolate, acute or very shortly acuminate, rai'ely obtuse, 

 narrowed to the rounded or sub-cordate base ; both surfaces when very 

 young stellate furfuraceous, speedily becoming glabrous except the puber- 

 ulous midrib J the upper (when dry) pale green, the lower biowu : main 



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