6 . ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
in 2 series, nearly equal, usually orbicular, very concave. Stamens 6 — 21, imbricate in 
2 or more series, broadly oblong, thick, fleshy ; anther-cells dorsal, oblong, connectives 
produced. Ovaries 8—G6; style short; stigma obtuse or capitate ; ovules 6 to 8, on ane 
ventral suture. Ripe carpels globose or ovoid, stalked. Distrib.—Species 6, tropical 
Asiatic. ie 
A genus closely allied to Bocagea, St. Hilaire, but differing from that in having its 
sepals and petals much imbricate instead of valvate; in bearing more ovules, and more 
seeds in its ripe carpels; in its anther-cells being more lateral and not so entirely dorsal 
as in Bocagea, and in the apical process of the connective being truncate. The flowers 
of Sagerea are small and the sepals and petals are very concave; and in these respects, 
as well in the comparative fewness of the seeds in their ripe carpels, they diverge from 
those of typical Uvariew. Hooker jilius and Thomson (in their Flora Indica), Bentham 
and Hooker (in their Genera Plantarum), and Baillon (in his Histoire des Plantes, Vol. 
I. 202, 281) retain Sagerea as a genus,—an example which I would have followed 
without any hesitation had not Sir Joseph Hooker united it with Bocagea in his 
Flora of British India. The extreme imbrication both of the sepals and petals appears 
to me, however, in spite of Sir Joseph Hooker’s more recent view, so insurmountable 
an argument against its reduction to a genus in which both these sets of organs are 
very distinctly valvate, that I adhere to his earlier view that Sagerea should remain 
distinct and take its place in the tribe Uvariee. 
Flowers unisexual. 
Leaves 8 to 12 in. long with 14 to 16 pairs of nerves; stamens 12 
ORL Ges et peCANPOls FO DULETGeE. gi hn ea kts) gh At og lea 
Leaves 4 to 5:5 in. with 6 to 8 pairs of nerves; stamens 95; ripe 
carpels ovoid <The ames ie Os EDI Ster ty 
1. S. elliptica. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Flowers -6 to ‘75 in. in diam.; sepals cvate, orbicular, sub-acute ; 
| stamens 24; ovaries glabrous, 7-ovuled . : . 9... 5. . . 98. S. Thwaitesii, 
Flowers 3 in. in diam. ; sepals orbicular ; stamens 12 to 18 ; ovaries 
harry, williabont L2 ovilessees gece tek, Ses, We ee ee a Zari: 
I, SacGeR#za enuprica, Hook. fil. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 93. A large tree; all parts 
glabrous except the ciliate perianth ; young branches rather stout, angled. Leaves 
coriaceous, narrowly oblong, acute (obtuse when very old); the base narrowed, obtuse 
or minutely cordate, oblique; both surfaces shining ; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, 
preading, faint; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 2-25 to 3°5 in.; petiole ‘15 in., very 
thick. Flowers moncecious, solitary and axillary, or fascicled on 
, tubercles on the larger 
branches, small, red; pedicels -25 in, long, with several basal and medial bracts. 
Sepals small, semi-orbicular, glabrous, ciliate. Petals thick, ovate-orbicular, concave, 
tubercular outside, glabrous, the edges ciliate, ‘25 in. long; the inner smaller than the 
outer. Stamens 12 to 18, the connective sub-quadrate at the apex ; anthers extrorse. 
Ovaries in female flower about 3, glabrous; ovules about 8. Ripe carpels sub-sessile 
globose, glabrous, 1 in. in diam. Seeds several. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, 
Pi Ze -—Sagereea Hookeri, Pierre Flore Forest. Coch.-Chine, t. 15.— Bocagea nate 
H, jf. §& Tho EL oBr. Inde 3, 92; Kurz F. Flora Burma, i, 50.—Uvaria ote 
A. DC. in Mem. Soc, Genev. v. 27; Wall. Cat, 6470, 7421.—Diospyros? frond 
Wall. Cat. 4125. O52, 
