16 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Leaves pubescent. 
Leaves on under-surface stellate, rufous-pubescent ; young branches 
and flowers outside with scurfy rufous tomentum oe 
Leaves on under-surface and young branches minutely tawny- 
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| Species of doubtful position. 
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. U. astrostricta. 
Probably near U.- macrophylla. . . . «© 6 6 «© - 7 6 6 6 6 26. UL ptychoculye. 
With axillary flowers - a ae -« 27. U. sub-repanda. 
1. Uvarta Larner, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber 20 to 40 feet long; 
youngest branches and. petioles sparsely covered with minute scaly stellate hairs; the 
colder cinereous, lenticellate, glabrescent. Leaves membranous, elliptic or sub-obovate- 
elliptic, shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub- 
emarginate (not cordate) base; upper surface’ glabrous, shinmg, the midrib minutely 
tomentose; lower surface with a few short spreading hairs on the midrib and some of the 
nerves, otherwise almost glabrous; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, inter-arching 
within the edge, bold in the lower, impressed on the upper, surface; length of blade 5 
to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in,; petiole *2 to *3 in. Peduncles trom half-way between the 
leaves, ‘1 in. long, 1- to 2-flowered (one of the flowers often abortive), warted and 
yellowish-pubescent ; pedicels *75 in. long with 1 or 2 reniform bracts; flowers 1°5 to 
bis in. in diam. .Sepals small (‘2.in. long), reniform, -united at the base, reflexed, 
pubescent. Petals oblong-oblanceolate, sub-acute, about °75 in. long, sub-coriaceous, 
puberulous, Anthers sessile, im very few rows, flattened; the connective slightly 
produced, flattened, oblique. Ovaries numerous, angled, puberulous, with a few long 
projecting hairs near the apex. Zorus of the fruit small, sub-globular, pubescent. Rive 
carpels numerous, stalked, cylindric-oblong, oblique, curved, ‘slightly apiculate, rugulose, 
minutely rufous-pubescent, 1°25 to 15 in. long and °5 in. in diam. Seeds about 10, in 
two rows, compressed, shining. Stalks 1:25 to 1:5 in. long, rufous-tomentose, King in 
Journ, As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 18. 3 | 
: Perak,—King’s Collector No. 4011, Wray No. 1826. 
‘Puats 4, Uvaria Larep, Mig. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe fruit; 3, vertical 
section of a carpel; 4, seed—of natural. size; 5, flower dissected; 6, stamens— enlarged. 
2. Uvarra spHevocarpa, H. Sf. & Th. Fl. Ind. 99. A large scandent shrub: 
young branches slender, softly pale, cinereous-tomentose, the older dark-coloured end 
glabrous, Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate, acuminate, the — 
base rounded, not cordate; : 4. : 
’ €; upper surface glabrescent to glabrous, the midrib pubescent ; 
lower surface covered with minute, rather loose, stellate tomentum; length of blade 3 to 
5 in., breadth 1:25 to 2 in.; petiole °15 to *2 in. Pedunecles *5 in, =loits lateral, not 
axillary, l-flowered; flower -6 in. in diam.; bract orbicular, sealy ; buds ayoidegiobiais 
Sepals broadly ovate, acuminate. Petals broadly ovate,’ acute, signa Hefléxedy inith 
lurger than the sepals, tomentose. - Anthers sub-sessile, their apices slightly Blige) the 
