Piptostigma.'] III. anonace.e (oliver). 19 



cially on the midrib and veins, 10-14 in. long, 5-6 in. broad above the 

 middle. Racemes probably pendulous, slender, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, once or 

 twice forked, bearing a few flowers at the pilose or villous extremities of its 

 branches. Bracts 5-8 lines, like the short stout pedicels rusty-villous. 

 Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 lines long, villous externally. Outer petals \ 

 in. long, resembling the sepals ; inner petals very fragile when dry, imper- 

 Jfect in our specimens, probably 1^-3 in. long, furrowed or striate, pilose ex- 

 ternally. Ovaries hirsute ; ovules about 8, uni- or subbiseriate. " Fruit of 

 several united carpels. Seeds in two rows, covered with a little pulp." 

 Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson I 



2. P. glabrescens^ OUv. I. c. A tree of 30 leet ; twigs at first pilose. 

 Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly acuminate ; base obtuse 

 or acute, glabrous above, glabrescent and somewhat glaucous beneath, with 

 numerous secondary nerves, 4-8 in. long, l|-2^ in. broad, subsessile or 

 petiole rarely over 3 lines. Flowers (drooping?) in rigid, forked or panicled, 

 cymose, probably erect racemes. Pedicels 3-6 lines, bearing an ovate, acute 

 bract, rusty-pilose. Sepals triangular-ovate, about \\ lines long. Outer 

 petals 3 lines long, like the sepals rusty-pilose externally ; inner petals con- 

 siderably longer, f-1 in. long, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, pubescent. 

 Carpels about 4. Ovules 6-10, in two series. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Kongui river, Mann ! 



4. UVARIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 23. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, free or united more or less towards the 

 base, valvate in aestivation, or calyx at first cupulate, nearly entire. Petals G, 

 rotundate elliptical or ovate, in 2 series of 3 each, flattened and spreading in 

 flower or concave, sometimes united at the base, more or less imbricate in 

 aestivation. Stamens indefinite, closely crowded, the connective shortly pro- 

 duced beyond the anther-cells into a truncate or rounded tip. Torus more 

 or less prominent, truncate or slightly depressed in the centre. Carpels nu- 

 merous, linear, clavate or oblong. Style truncate. Ovules numerous or few, 

 generally biseriate. Fruit-carpels distinct, sessile or stipitate, several-seeded 

 or 1 -seeded by abortion. 



Scrambling or climbing shrubs or small trees, with more or less of a stellate tomentum 

 or glabrous. Flowers solitary or fascicled, ofteu extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, sometimes 

 from the wood of a previous year. 



A genus, confined to the tropics or subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 

 None of the species has been satisfactorily shown to be common to the two continents. One 

 species, TJvaria caffra, grows at Natal. 



Leaves large, 9-15 in. or more. 



Sepals free or uearly so, shorter than the petals before expansion . . 1. U. connivens. 

 Sepals large, enclosing the petals until expansion, connate at the base, 

 surrounded bv large, concave, imbricate bracts, rusty silky-pilose 



externally . ' 2. U.fusca. 



Leaves rarely exceeding 8 in. (usually 2-5 in.). 



Leaves i in., ovate, acute, glabrous above, at first tomcntosc beneath. 



Calyx? Petals oval-oblong 3. U. ovata. 



Sepals free above the middle or nearly to the base. 



Leaves shortly scabrous-hispid above, more or less rounded at 



