Melodorum.] flora indica. 119 



confounded by Roxburgh. This is the more likely, because there are two small frag- 

 ments of the true 31. bicolor glued on the same sheet with 31. Wallichii in the 

 Linn. Soc. Herb., and several more of the same among the duplicates of that collec- 

 tion, though that plant does not elsewhere occur in the Wallichian collection. The 

 only tangible part of Roxburgh's description is the globose fruit, and that is only ap- 

 plicable to the species called by us 31. bicolor. This we have compared with an 

 authentic specimen from Roxburgh in the British Museum, in flower and fruit. We 

 only know the fruit of the present species by a single specimen collected by us in 

 Khasia. It is not unlike that of 31. verrucosum in shape, but less wrinkled ; but it is 

 far from ripe. 



6. M. verrucosum (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis 

 crebre nervosis supra nitidis pube minuta puberalis secus costam sub- 

 tomentosis subtus fulvo-pubescentibns secus nervos sericeo-villosis, flo- 

 ribus fasciculatis vel subracemosis plerumque termitialibus, alabastris 

 latis obtuse triquetris, carpellis longe pedicellatis obliquis rostratis 



valde rugosis. 



Hab. In mout. Khasia, alt. 4-5000 ped.—(Fl. Jul., Pr. Oct.) (v. v.) 



Frutex alte scandens, ramosus, dense foliosus. Hamuli grisei vel rufescentes, len- 

 ticellis albidis creberrimis notati, rugulosi, puberuli, demum glabrescentes, juniores 

 cum omnibus partibus novellis fulvo-tomentosi. Folia 3-5 poll, longa, li-2 lata, 

 petiolo pollicari, basi rotundata vel acutiuscula, apice obtusa vel acuta. Flores ad 

 apices ramulorum 1-5, solitarii, fasciculati, vel racemulum pauciflorum foliosum 

 formantes, fioribus inferioribus oppositifoliis. Fedicelli fulvo-tomentosi, pollicares, 

 basi pluribracteati, ct versus medium bracteolas 1-2 ovales amplectentes 2-3 lineas 

 longas gerentes. Alabastri quam in cseteris speciebus breviores, latiores, dense to- 

 mentosi. Sepala i-poll., late ovata, costata, in fructu subpersistentia. Fetala ex- 

 teriora late ovata, extus dense tomentosa, intus cinereo-incana, medio linea vix ele- 

 vata obscure carinata, f-f poll, longa ; interiora paullo breviora, triangulari-oblonga, 

 intus concava, glabriuscula, impressionibus staminum areolata, superne longe tri- 

 quetra. Processus connectivi magnus, ovalis. Ovaria dense fusco-pilosa. Torus 

 fructus globosus. Carpella pulposa, subglobosa, vel late ovoidea, bipollicaria, ob- 

 liqua, obtuse mucronata, irregulariter verrucoso-tubereulata, tomentosula, suffulta pe- 

 dicellis li-3-pollicaribus crassis clavatis longitudinaliter striatis. Semina biserialia, 

 parti tionibus cellulosis separata, f-1 poll, longa, oblonga, compressa, irregulariter 

 transverse rugosa, margiue toto aunulo lato prominenfe tuberculato versus hilnm 

 leevigato medio secus longitudinem profunde sulcato circuindata. 



This species is certainly very near the last, but it differs, we think, essentially in 

 the leaves being much more tomentose beneath, with more numerous transverse 

 nerves, and especially by the very broad short flowers. AVe are, however, unac- 

 quainted with the fruit of 3L Wallichii, except in a very young state. If the species 

 be distinct, which we believe them to be from their general aspect, no doubt good 

 characters will be found in the fruit. 



M 



nerv 



tern glabris subtus cum petiolo pilis cinereis vel fulvia longe et adpresse 

 sericeis, floribus fasciculatis extra-axillaribus majtisculis, carpellis globo- 

 sis breviter pedicellatis tomentosis. — Uvaria bicolor, Roxb. 27. Lid. ii. 



Wall 



rnontibus inferioribus Sikkiru ! — (v. v.) 



Frutez scandens. Ramuli elongati. foliosi, 



basin Himalavoe in 



