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and Th. Fl. Ind. 97 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Tnd. T, 49 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I 

 Pt. 2, p. 23 ; Thwaites Enum. Pfc. Ceyl. 6 ; Kiirz Fl. Burm. 1, p. 28 ; Bed- 

 dome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 81. U. o-ufescens, DC. Mem. Anon. 26. U. cor- 

 data, Wall. Cat. 6486. Guatteria cordata, Dunal Anon. 129 t. 30 ; DC. 

 Prod. I, 93. 



Silhet, Chittagong, Burmah, Malayan Peninsula, Java, Ceylon. 



One of the most widely distributed species of the genus and 

 closely allied to U. ovalifolia, Bl. I reduce to this species the JJvaria 

 cordata of Wall. Cat., No. 6486 ; but not without some hesitation, as 

 both Miquel and Kurz referred it to Z7. ovalifolia, Bl. 



6. UvARiA PURPUREA, Blume Bijdr. 11 : PI. Jav. 13, t. 1 andt. 13 A. 

 A sarmentose shrub, often climbing to 20 or 30 feet : young parts softly 

 stellate-rufous-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, acute or 

 acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cordate, shortly petiolate ; 

 upper surface, when adult, shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the midrib 

 and sometimes the nerves tomentose ; under surface rather sparsely 

 but softly stellate-tomentose ; main nerves 14 to 17 pairs, rather 

 straight, prominent beneath, the lower spreading, the upper sub-erect ; 

 length 4"5 to 9 or even Jl in., breadth 25 to 3" 75 in. ; petiole 15 to 

 '25 in. Peduncles 1 to 1'5 in. long, extra-axillary or terminal, usually 

 1- sometimes 2-flowered ; flowers 2 to 3 in. diam. ; bracts 2, large, un- 

 equal, leafy ; buds turbinate. Sepals broadly triangular, sub-concave, 

 membranous, fulvous-tomentose on the outer, glabrescent on the inner 

 surface. Petals longer than the sepals, coriaceous, oblong to obovate, 

 obtuse, coriaceous, dark purple, the inner 3 slightly smaller. Anthers 

 sub-sessile, very numerous, equal, about "3 in. long; the connective much 

 produced at the apex, rhomboid in the inner, compressed and oblique in 

 the outer anthers. Ovaries numerous, densely crowded, slightly shorter 

 than the stamens, tomentose ; ovules numei^ous. Torus depressed-hemi- 

 spheric, pubescent, pitted when ripe. liipe carpels numerous, stalked, ob- 

 long-cylindric, blunt at each end with 2, more or less obscure, ridges and 

 grooves, minutely rufous-tomentose, sub-tuberculate, I'S to 2 in. long 

 and about "5 in. in diam. ; stalks "5 to 1 in. long, rafons-tomentose. Seeds 

 numerous, flat. Hook. fil. and Thoms. PI. Ind. 95 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 2, 22 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 6 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 47 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hong Kong, 9 ; Vidal y Soler, Revis. Fl. Filipina.s, 39; Scheffer 

 Obs. Phyt. I, 4, 26, 65; Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 11, I. U. grandiflora, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 665 ; Wall. PI. As. Rar. II t. 121 ; Wall. Cat. 6485, A. 

 to D. and H. ; Wight and Arn. Prod. 9. U. platypetala, Champ, in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. Ill, 2.')7. IT. rliodantha, Hance in Walp. Ann. II, 19, Unona 

 grandiflora, DC. Prod. I, 90. 



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