136 flora indica. [Anonacece. 



doubt that his plant is the same aa that of Wallich, whose specimens are partly com- 

 municated by Wight (in fruit), and partly by Heyne (in flower), but in both cases 

 without special locality. 



In Dr. Wight's Herbarium there is a specimen in fruit of a species nearly allied 

 to U.pannosa, Dalz., and bearing at the same time a very close resemblance in 

 foliage and general habit to Unona virgata, Blume, Bijdr. {Uvaria virgata, Bl. Fl. 

 Jav. Anon. t. 19 et 25 B.) The fruit of Blume's plant is however very different. 

 Dr. Wight's specimen, which was gathered at Quilon, in Malabar, in October, 1835, 

 has oblique oblongo -lanceolate leaves, acute at the base, and long acuminate, 5-8 

 inches long and 2-2^ broad, thin and membranous, with oblique distant nerves, pro- 

 minent below, and united into loops a long way within the margin. The petioles 

 are scarcely i inch in length, thickened and cylindric, and the leaves arc glabrous 

 above and very slightly downy on the midrib below. The specimen bears one fruit, 

 supported on a pedicel little more than a line in length in the axil of the lowest leaf. 

 Two carpels remain, and the scars of two more are visible ; they are oblong and ob- 

 tusely mucronate, § of an inch in length, with a pedicel a line long, two-seeded, and 

 slightly constricted in the middle between the seeds, yellowish-brown, slightly pu- 

 bescent and granular. 



Species obfructum ignotum dubice. 



U. praecoK (H 



lis folioruiii delaD 



Hab. Assam, Simons ! — I?l. Febr. (v. s.) 



glabriusculis 



Arbor forsan humilis. Eamuli rugulosi, cortice griseo, in specimirie suppetente flo- 

 rido foliis adultis orbati, floribus una cum foliis novellis e gcmmis axillaribus evolutis. 

 Folia (novella) tenuia, incano-puberula, 2-3 poll, longa, f-l| l a ^ a > pctiolo vix i-poll. 

 Fedunculi graciles, pollicares, cum ramulo tuberculo axillari piloso inserti. Sepala 

 lineari-oblonga, acuta, membranacea, § poll, longa. Petala 2^~ 3-pollicaria, tenuis- 

 sima. Stamina truncato-capitata. Ovaria glabra; stylo oblongo, piloso. Ovula 



in sutura ventrali 2-3. 



A very singular species, of w r hich we have before us several specimens collected by 

 Mr. Simons, all in good flower, and covered with young shoots and scarcely-expanded 

 leaves. It seems to be a soft-wooded plant, and the branches have the appearance 

 of being jointed, from the peculiar development of the young shoots. These are 

 much smaller than the pulvinar, or tubercle, from which they spring, and the flower- 

 stalk is inserted into it exterior to the branchlet, both being immersed in short rigid 

 hairs. As there are no adult leaves on our specimens, it is doubtless a deciduous- 

 leaved plant. 



11. \J. stenopetala (H.f. et T.); foliis brevissime petiolatis obo- 

 vato-lanceolatis vel lineari-oblongis basin versus angustatis basi obtusis 

 et oblique emarginatis, floribus secus ramos crassiores dense fasciculatis, 

 petalis angustissime linearibus elongatis. 



Hab. In prov. Tenasserim ad Moulmein, Lobb ! — (v. s.) 



Distrib. Java, Lobb! 



Arbor? Hamuli graciles, juniores fiisco-pubescentes. Folia acuminata, 4-6 

 poll, longa, 1^-lf lata, petiolo vix lineam longo, tenuiter coriacea, supra glabra, 

 subtu3 pallida, secus costam pubescentia. Fedunculi in massam lignosam varie ra- 

 mosam coaliti, squamulis vestiti ; pedicelli pubescentes, ^-\ poll, loiigi, basi brac- 

 teolas 1-2 lanceolatas gerentes. Sepala basi subconnata, longe angustata, ^ poll, 

 longa, ciliata, extus pubescentia. Petala 2-3-pollicaria, vix lineam lata, extus seri- 

 ceo-puberula ; exterior a basi parum dilatata, connate, obtuse carinata; interiora 

 paullo angustiora, basi remota. Ovaria 4-7, villosa, oblonga. Ovula 5, horizontalia. 



