Uvaria.] flora indica. 95 



toro globoso insidentia, sesquipollicaria, baccata, aromatica. Semina 4-6, ovalia, 

 subcompressa, subrugosa, castauea, margine elevato cincta, triserialia. 



Our specimens being in flower only, we have derived our character of the fruit 

 from Blume's detailed description. There are specimens in our own Indian col- 

 lections of a tree from the forests north of Chittagong, which, though in leaf only, 

 appear to belong to this species. 



3. UVARIA, L. 



Sepala 3, sestivatione valvata, lata, basi ssepe coalita. Petala 6, 

 rotundata, ovalia, vel oblonga, sest. biserialiter imbricantia, plano-con- 

 vexa, basi interdum plus minus coalita. Stamina indefinita, multi- 

 serialia, plano-corapressa, oblonga vel lineari-oblonga, antherarum lo- 

 culis remotis dorsalibus linearibus, connectivo in processum oblongum 

 subfoliaceum vel truncatum et abbreviatum producto. Torus parum 

 elevatus, truncatus, pubescens, inter ovaria s£epe dense tomentosus. 

 Ovaria indefinita, recta, lineari-oblonga, angulata, intus sulcata, pn- 

 bescentia, stylo continuo apice truncato, marginibus involutis, succum 

 gelatinosum effudente coronata ; ovula indefinita, biserialia. Carpella 

 polysperma, forma valde varia, interdum abort u meio- vel monosperma. 



■Frutices scandentes vel saltern sarmentosi, pube vel tomento stellato, 

 inflorescentia plerumque oppositifolia, rarissime axillari. 



Notwithstanding the exclusion of many species, this genus still remains a very 

 extensive one. The species appear to be all scandent, and they are entirely confined 

 to the Old World, through which they are widely distributed, from western Africa 

 to the Philippine Islands. Uvaria Brasiliana of Von Martius, with an arillus and 

 dehiscing fruit, and stamens like those of Anona, certainly does not belong to the 

 genus. It ought probably to be associated with Aslmina or Torcelia, as has been 



suggested by Asa Gray. 



The principal characters of the genus Uvaria, as now limited, are the equal petals, 

 imbricate in estivation, and the narrow, linear, cylindrical ovaries, perfectly straight, 

 with a very short style, which is marked at the apex with a horse-shoe-like impres- 

 sion, continuous with the ventral groove of the ovary. The ovules are always name 

 rous, and the carpels always (except by abortion, and that not typically, but casually) 

 numerous, or at least scarcely definite. m 



The genus divides itself naturally into two sections, charactenzed by very different 

 forms of stamen. In one of these, containing the majority of the species, the sta- 

 mens are flattened, and the outer series generally very thin, and sometimes barren, or 

 without anthers. In the other, which contains U. Zeylanica, L., the original species 

 of the genus (to which, therefore, if division be carried further, the name must at- 

 tach), the stamens are narrower and truncate at the apex. This is, however, only a 

 question of degree, the outer stamens, even in this section, being terminated by a 



projection of the connectivum. m 



The petals are occasionally united at the base in U Narum and other species, in 

 which case they form a single verticil, like the tubular perianth of most monocotyle- 

 donons plants, though belonging to two distinct series, alternating with ope another. 



Mac 



magnum 



foliaceum productum. Anthem loculi remoti. Stamina exte- 

 riora tenuia, subfoliacea, interdum auanthera. 



1. U. purpurea (Bl. Bijdr. 11, Ft Java Anon. 13. 1. 1 et 13 A) ; 



foliis cimeato-oblongis vel oblongo-lanccolatis basi angustatis corda- 



