Uvaria.'] ill. anonacejs (oliver). 21 



3. U, ovata^ J. DC. Mem. Anou. 29. Young branches subtomentose 

 with rusty hairs. Leaves ovate, acute, glabrous above, lower surface at first 

 rusty-toraentose, at length glabrate excepting the midrib, 1 in. lout?. Pe- 

 duncles leaf-opposed, very short, 2-flowered. Petals subequal, oval-oblono-, 

 rather acute. — Unona ovata, DC. Syst. Yeg. i. 489. 



Upper Guinea, Vahl. 



Uakuown to me excepting from the description. 



4. U. ? scabrida, Oliv. A somewhat climbing shrub or small tree of 

 30 ft., with the young twigs rusty-tomentose and rather rough with crowded 

 stellate hairs. Leaves oblong or slightly narrowed towards the more or less 

 rounded base, obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, scabnd with very 

 short stiff hairs, distinctly stellate on the under surface, 4-6 in. lonf^, la— 2 

 in. broad. Petioles 1-2 lines. Flowers 1^-2 in. across, on extra-axillary 

 peduncles, ^1 in. long. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rather acute, 

 nearly or quite free, reflexed or spreading. Petals yellowish-green, ovate or 

 ovate-elliptical, scarcely acute, rough, like the sepals, with rusty, short, stel- 

 late toraentum. Carpels indefinite, each with 4-6 ovules in two rows, stel- 

 late-hairy. Fruit carpels rough, toraentose, forming a globose cluster (ac- 

 cording to the Eev. W. C. Thomson). 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons river, Mann ! Ikoneto, Old Calabar, Thomson ! 

 I am not sure if the sestivation of the loosely-packed petals be imbricate, but from the 

 general aspect of the plant and its stellate hairs, I leave it provisionally in Uvaria. 



5. U. acuminata, Oliv. A climbing shrub with the young shoots pu- 

 bescent or pilose-tomentose with cinnamon or rusty hairs. Leaves oval-ob- 

 long, narrowed above into an acute or rather obtuse acumen, slightly or not 

 at all narrowed to the cordate or subcordate base, rather paler and stellate- 

 pubescent beneath, the midrib with more or less spreading hairs, more or 

 less puberulous or subscaberulous or glabrate above, 2-4 in. long, |-1 .^ in. 

 broad. Pedicel about 1 line. Flowers (not seen in the continental speci- 

 mens) rather small, solitary, on peduncles of 1 in. or less. Sepals connate 

 below, ovate, rather pointed, stellate-pubescent. Fruit-carpels globose or 

 shortly oblong, rugose-puberulous, stipitate, obtuse, light brown, 4-5 lines 

 diam., 4-6 lines long, few- or 1 -seeded. Stipes about 2 lines. Seeds shin- 

 ing, 4 lines long, 2-2|- lines broad. 



Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Br. Kirk ! 



Also Madagascar, Bojer ! The ripe fruit is said to be eaten. 



6. U, lucida, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxiii. 465. Glabrous. Leaves 

 oblong-elliptical, shortly and obtusely acuminate, broadly rounded at the base, 

 about 3-3^ in. long, 1|-1| in. broad. Petiole 2 lines. Peduncles subter- 

 nate, 3-4 lines long, bracteate. Flowers covered with a very short, rather 

 hoary tomentum. Sepals rotundate. Petals free, rounded, about 5 lines 

 long and broad. Anthers shortly produced into an obtuse trigonous or com- 

 pressed, rather obovate tip. Carpels more or less hairy above. Styles short, 

 thick, truncate. Ovules 5-8. — Guatttria lucida, Boj. Mort. Maurit. 6 ; 

 Unona lucida, Sweet, Hort. Brit. {fJe Boj.) 



Mozamb. Distr. Mombase Island, Bojer ! 



