18 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
4. Uvarra pracreata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 660. A powerful climber; young branches 
tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute or shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base ; when young 
pubescent, when adult glabrous, except the tomentose midrib and nerves; the reticulations 
minute, prominent beneath; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, rather straight, ascending ; 
length of blade 5 to 7:5 in., breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole *15 to *3 im. Peduneles extra- - 
axillary, under 1 in. long, bifid, 2- to 3-flowered ; bracts about 8, unequal, one rather 
large, pubescent ; buds sub-globose, pubescent ; flowers °65 in. in diam. Sepals sub- 
orbicular, pubescent. Petals much larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, rather blunt, 
connivent, yellowish-white. Anthers sub-sessile; connective very slightly produced at their 
apices, broad, notched. Ovaries linear, pubescent. Carpels few, ovoid to oblong, obtuse 
at both ends, glabrous, yellow when ripe, 1°75 to 2°25 in. long and about 13 in, in 
diam. Seeds few, discoid, smooth. Wull. Cat. 6468; Hook. jil. §& Thoms. Fl. Ind. 100; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Bre Ind. i. 49; Kurz Flora Burm. 1. 28. ) 
Sylhet ; Burmah. 
Piatt 7. Uvaria bracteata, Rorb. 1, Flowering branch; 2, carpels; 3, flower—of 
natural size; 4, stamen; 5, ovary; 6, section of the same—enlarged, 
5. Uvarta pvicis, Dunal Anon. 90, 4. 18. A powerful creeper, often 80 to 100 feet 
long; youngest branches softly cinereous-tomentose; the older sub-glabrous or glabrous, 
dark-coloured, rather rough. Zeaves coriaceous, elliptic or oval, sometimes unequal- 
sided, acute or sub-acute; the base broad, rounded, or sub-truncate, minutely cordate; 
upper surface sparsely adpressed-stellate-pubescent; the midrib ferruginous-tomentose ; 
lower surface densely sub-ferruginous or cinereous woolly-tomentose; main nerves 8 to 
10 pairs, spreading, slightly curving, prominent beneath; length of blade 4:5 to 7 in., 
breadth 2°5 to 3:5 in.; petiole -2 in., stout. Peduncles *5 in. long, lateral, not axillary, 
1-flowered, solitary or 2 to 3 together, each bearing a small ovate deciduous bract; 
buds ovoid-globose, tomentose; flowers 1:25 to 1:5 in. in diam. Sepals broadly trian- 
gular, sub-acute, slightly reflexed, fleshy, tomentose on both surfaces. Petals much 
longer than the sepals, sub-coriaceous, broadly ovate, sub-acute, sub-reflexed, minutely 
tomentose on the outer surface; pubescent on the inner. Sfamens and pistils forming 
a compact hemispheric mass; anthers sub-sessile, ‘1 in. long; the connective much 
produced at the apex, compressed, oblique. Ovaries numerous, densely crowded, slightly 
shorter -than the stamens, tomentose. Torus depressed-hemispheric, stellate-tomentose, 
pitted when adult. Hipe carpels numerous, stalked, ovoid, oblique, blunt, much and 
unequally tuberculate, densely and loosely ferruginous stellate-tomentose as are the 
1 in, long stalks. DC. Prod. i. 88; Hook. fil. & Uh. Fl. Ind. 98; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bai. i pt. 2, 24; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 8; King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal 61, 
pt. 2, 14.—U. javana, Dunal Anon. 91, ¢t. 14; Blume Bydr. 12; Fl. Fave, t. 3 and 
13 B.; DC. Prod. i. 88?—U. aurita, Blume Fl. Jave, t. 3. 
Malacca,—Grifith, Muaingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 25. Perak,—King’s Collector. 
Penang,— Curtis No, 1414. | 
| As regards the size of its leaves and the colour of its flowers (which appear to 
vary from green through yellow to purple) this is rather a variable species. One of 
its forms, barely ‘distinguishable from the type, was named U. yjavanu by Dunal, 
who also gave a figure of it. Blume, who again figured U, javana, distinguished it 
