20 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
stellate, rusty tomentum, especially along the midrib and 11 to 18 pairs of promment 
spreading or oblique nerves; length of blade 4:5 to 10 in., breadth 2°5 to 4 or 
(in some Burmese specimens) even 6 in.; petiole *20 in. Peduncles extra-axillary or 
terminal, densely rusty-tomentose, 3- to 5-flowered, each pedicel with an oval or 
rounded bract; buds globose; flowers 1:5 in. in diam, Sepals connate intoa cup with 
wavy obscurely 3-toothed edge. Petals much larger than the calyx, sub-rotund, 
blunt, coriaceous, purple, tomentose outside, pubescent inside; anthers sessile, °3 in. 
long; the connective produced at the apex to nearly half the length of the anther, 
compressed, obliquely truncate. Qvaries narrow, compressed, tomentose ; the stigmas 
truncate. Torus of fruit woody, hemispheric, 1 in. in diam., sparsely pubescent, pitted. 
Ripe carpels stalked, oblong, blunt at each end, glabrous, *75 to 1°25 in. long, pericarp 
thin; stalks ‘5 to 1 in. long; seeds numerous, oval, compressed, shining. Wall. Pi. As. 
Rar., t 122; Cat. 6487 (excl. F. in fruit); H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 97; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. i. 49; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 23; Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 6; Kure Fl. 
Burm. i. 28; Beddome Ie. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 815: King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, 
pt. 2, 16.—U. rufescens, DC. Mem. Anon. 26.—U. cordata, Wall. Cat. 6486.—Guatteria 
cordata, Dunal Anon. 129, t. 30; DC. Prod. i. 93. 
Sylhet, Chittagong, Burmah, Malayan Peninsula, Java, Ceylon. 
One of the most widely distributed species of the genus and closely allied to 
U. ovalifolia, Bl. I reduce to this species the Uvaria cordata of Wall. Cat. No. 6486; 
but not without some hesitation, as both Miquel and Kurz referred it to U. ovalifolia, 
Bl. 
Prats 10. Uvaria macrophylla, Rozd. 1, Flowering branch; 2, raceme of buds and 
flowers ; 3, fruit; 4, section of carpel ; 5, seed—of natural size ; 6, stamens—enlarged. 
8. Uvarta seMrcarpironia, H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 97. A climber; young branches 
and petioles densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse 
or mucronate, slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded, sometimes minutely 
cordate, base; upper surface glabrous, except the tomentose midrib; lower minutely 
stellate-tomentose especially on the midrib and nerves; nerves 20 to 24 pairs, spreading 
prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, surface when dry; length of blade 7 
to 12 in., breadth 2°75 to 4 in.; petiole -25 in. Peduncles leaf-opposed, less than °5 in. 
long, rufous-tomentose (as are the pedicels), 3- to 5-flowered; bracts rounded, tomentose 
like the calyx; buds globose, yellowish-tomentose; flowers 1 to 1°5 ine in diam 
greenish-brown. Sepals united into an obscurely 3-toothed or sub-entire rather aNaloe 
cup. Petals broadly oval, sub-acute. Anthers sub-sessile, their apices truncate; the 
connectives not produced, the outer flattened. Ovaries striate, hairy. Ripe car i oval 
to sub-globose, fulvo-tomentose, nearly 1 in. long, their stalks °5 in. long Sod ( fide 
H. f. § Th.) 8 to 10, smooth, shming. Thwuites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 6; Baddohaa I Pl. Ind. 
Or., t. 82; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 49. ee 
Ceylon, central and south-eastern parts, at elevations of 1,000 to 3.000 feet 
In foliage very like U. macrophylla, Roxb. : 
PuarE 11. Uvaria semecarpifolia, H. f. 6 Th. 1, Branc i 
from above; 3, flower from the side ; 4, Can carpus : are oe tia ie 
ripe carpel—of natural size Se andro-gyncecium—slightly enlarged ; 2 & 9 anthers: 
10, ovary; 11, the same in section—much enlarged. iene 
