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stigma thick, sub-capitate, sub-truncate ; ovules numerous, in two rows. 

 Ripe carpels sub-globular, slightly obovoid, blunt at each end, densely 

 and minutely tomentose, 1"1 in. long and '9 in. in diam. Seeds about 

 14 in two rows, horizontal, half-oval, flat, smooth, brown. Mitrephora ex- 

 celsa, H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 114 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 77; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 31, 



Penang : Wallich, Curtis. Perak : King's Collector. Scortechini. 

 Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 36 m part. 



This plant was originally issued as a Uvaria by Wallich. His 

 specimens of it, however, bore no mature flowers ; and Sir Joseph Hooker 

 and Dr. Thomson referred them doubtfully to MifrepJiora. The excellent 

 specimens recently collected by Mr. Curtis and by the Calcutta Garden 

 Collector show the petals to be sub-equal and concave, imbricate at the 

 apex only, the sepals being quite valvate. This of course is not the 

 typical flower of a Uvaria, in which the petals are much imbi'icate. But 

 the stamens, ovaries and ripe fruit are more those of Uvaria than of any 

 other genus. 



15. Uvaria astrosttcta, Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber ? 

 Young branches deciduously rufous-stellate-tomentose with simple hairs 

 intermixed, ultimately glabrous striate and dark-coloured. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, acuminate, 

 the base rounded or minutely cordate ; upper surface minutely scaberuU 

 ous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves softly rufous-pubescent ; 

 lower surface at first densely and softly tomentose, ultimately sparsely 

 stellate-pubescent, sub-scaberulous ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spread- 

 ing, rather prominent on the lower surface : length of blade 4 to 6 in., 

 breadth 1-5 to IS in., petiole '2 in. Peduncles extra-axillary, very short 

 (only '3 in.), 2-to 3-flowered, rufous-stellate-tomentose as are the 2 or 

 3 sub-rotund bracts ; buds sub-globular ; flowers 6 in. in diam. Sepals 

 reniform, sub-acute, united half way. Petals nearly three times as long 

 as the sepals, sub-coriaceous, broadly oval, slightly obovate, sub-acute, 

 minutely pubescent. Anthers sub-sessile, the connective produced 

 beyond the apices, flattened and truncate, 3 outer anthers barren : torus 

 hispidulous. Frtiit unknown ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II. 8. 



Perak; Scortechini, No. ]21. Distrib. E. Sumatra. 



The Perak specimens of this plant agree perfectly with those from 

 Sumatra on which the species was founded. It is allied to U. heterocarpa 

 Bl., to U. rufa Bl., and also to U. timoriensis. I have never seen the 

 fruit, and Miquel's entire description of it consists of the two words 

 " carpella velutina." 



Doubtful Species. 



16. Uvaria sub-rkpanda, Wall. Cat. 6483. A climber: young 

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