12 FLORA OF MADRAS. [ 



Larger petals -25 in. long; stamens about 25 ; leaves 5-7 in. long 



1. Dalzcllil, 

 Larger petals '5 in. long ; stamens about 12 ; leaves 9-12 in. long 



2. grandiflara.. 



1. SAGERAEA DALZELLII, Bedd. Ic. t. 42. Bocagea Dalzellii, 

 Hook. f. & Th. ; F. B. I. i. 92 in part. 



Moist forests of W. Ghats in Malabar, the Anamalais, 

 Travancore and Tinnevelly, up to 2,000 ft. 

 An evergreen tree with black bark. Vern. Mai, Mauja 

 nara, Kana Kaitha. 



2. SAGERAEA GRANDIFLORA, Dunn in Kew Bull. 1914, 182. 



Forests of Travancore. 



2. Uvaria, Linn. 



Scan dent or straggling shrubs, usually stellately pubescent ~ 

 Inflorescence terminal or leaf opposed or rarely axillary. Flowers. 

 solitary, cymose, umbellate or fascicled, yellow, purple or brown.. 

 Sepals 3, valvate, often connate below. Petals 6, orbicular,, oval: 

 or oblong, imbricate in 2 rows, sometimes connate at the base. 

 Stamens indefinite ; top of connective ovoid-oblong, truncate or 

 subfoliaceous, concealing the anthers. Torus depressed, pubes- 

 cent or tomentose. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong;: style short,, 

 thick; ovules many, 2- seriate, rarely few- or 1-seriate. Fruit oi 

 many dry or baccate, few- or many-seeded carpels. 



Leaves, twigs, calyx and petals stellate- tomentose : 



Calyx smooth and soft 1. Hamilfonii.. 



Calyx granular : 



Calyx globose splitting irregularly 2. eucincta.. 



Calyx of 3 acuminate sepals 3. macropoda.. 



Leaves glabrous : 



Leaves 2'2-3 in. long ; flowers '6-'S in. across ; carpels subsessile,, 



blunt at both ends 4. zeylamca. 



Leaves 3-9 in. long; flowers 1-1-5 in. across, yellow; carpels on 

 slender pedicels, red 5. Narum. 



1. UVARIA HAMILTONII, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 48; King 

 Ann. Calc. iv. 17, t. 6. 



Hill forests of Ganjam, up to 2,000 ft. 



