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Seeds numerous in two rows, horizontal, oval, compressed, pale brown, 

 shining. 



Pahang : Ridley. Perak : Scortechini. 



10. UvARiA PAOCiovuLATA, H. f. and T. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 51. A sub-scandent shrub : young branches densely stellate rufous- 

 toraentose. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, the base rounded or cordate ; upper surface 

 (in adult leaves) shining, quite glabrous ; the lower dull, sparsely pubes- 

 cent ; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, sub-ascending, curving, prominent 

 beneath and impressed above : length of blade 25 to 6 in., breadth 1'25 

 to 3 in., petiole "2 in. Bacemes terminal, umbellate, few-flowered, 1"5 to 

 2*5 in. long, scurfily rufous-tomentose ; bracts numerous and imbricate 

 towards the apex, rotund to ovate, tomentose : buds ovoid-globose : 

 flowers 1"5 in. in diam. Sepals small, (3 in. long) orbicular, sub-acute, 

 connate to the middle and densely tomentose outside, densely and minute- 

 ly puberulous inside. Petals very much larger than the sepals, sub- 

 connivent, coriaceous, ovate-rotund, obtuse, the inner 3 narrower; all 

 scaly-tomentose externally, densely and minutely pubescent and veined 

 internally ; anthers sub-sessile, cuneate ; connective slightly produced at 

 the apex, truncate ; ovaries longer than the stamens, flattened, stellate- 

 hairy ; stigma truncate, ovules 1 to 3. Bipe carpels numerous, stalked, 

 sub-globose, mucronate, densely and minutely falvous-tomentose, '35 to 

 •5 in. in diam., 1- to 2-seeded ; stalk '5 to *75 in., rather slender. Seeds 

 compressed, shining. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 104. Penang : Curtis, No. 

 825 : at elevations of 500 to 600 feet. 



11. UvARiA ScoRTECHiNir, King n. sp. A sarmentose, flexuose 

 shrub ; young branches and petioles densely covered with rusty, floccose, 

 rufous tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-rotund, olitu.se, 

 very slightly or not at all narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate 

 base : upper surface shining, glabrescent or glabrous, the deeply impressed 

 midrib and nerves tomentose, transverse veins depressed when dry ; 

 under surface minutely and softly rufous, pubescent especially on the 

 midrib nerves and reticulations which are all bold and prominent : main 

 nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading below, sub-ascending above, forming 

 double arches within the edge : length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 2'5 

 to 4 in., petiole "2 to "4 in. F/oivers 15 in. in diam., either terminal in 

 umbels of 2 or 3, or in many-flowered lateral panicles 4 in. in length : 

 peduncles "5 to '75 in. long ; bracts numerous, but chiefly towards the 

 apices of the peduncles, ovatc-oi'bicular, covered with short rufous 

 flocculent tomentum as arc the branches and axes of the panicles. 

 Sepals fleshy, triangular, sub-acute, counato in the lower third, concave, 



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