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9. Uvarta purPpuREA, Blume Bydr. 11; Fl. Jav. 18, t. 1 §& 183A. A_ sarmentose 
shrub, often climbing to 20 or 380 feet; young parts softly stellate-rufous-pubescent 
or tomentose. eaves thickly membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes 
slightly obovate, acute or acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cordate, shortly 
petiolate; upper surface, when adult, shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the midrib and 
sometimes the nerves tomentose; under-surface rather sparsely but softly _ stellate- 
tomentose; main nerves 14 to 17 pairs, rather straight, prominent beneath, the lower 
spreading, the upper sub-erect; length 4°5 to 9 or even 11 in., breadth 2°5 to 3°76 in.; 
netiole ‘15 to °25 mm. Peduncles 1 told im. long, extra-axillary or terminal, usually 
1- sometimes 2-flowered; flowers 2 to 3 im. in diam.; bracts 2, large, unequal, leafy; 
buds turbinate. Sepals broadly triangular, sub-concave, membranous, fulvous-tomentose on 
the outer, glabrescent on the inner, surface. Petals longer than the sepals, coriaceous, 
oblong to obovate, obtuse, coriaceous, dark purple; the inner 3 slightly smaller. Anthers 
sub-sessile, very numerous, equal, about °3 in. long; the connective much produced 
at the apex, rhomboid in the inner, compressed and oblique in the outer, anthers. 
Ovaries numerous, densely crowded, slightly shorter than the stamens, tomentose ; 
ovules numerous. Zorus depressed-hemispheric, pubescent, pitted when ripe. Ripe carpels 
numerous, stalked, oblong-cylindric, blunt at each end, with 2 more or less obscure ridges 
and grooves, minutely rufous-tomentose, sub-tuberculate, 1:5 to 2 in. long and about 
-> in. in diam.; stalks *5 to 1 in. long, rufous-tomentose. Seeds numerous, flat. Hook. 
fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 95; Mi. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 22; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 
6; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 47; Benth. Fl. Hong-Kong, 9; Vidal y Soler, Revis. Fi. 
Filipinas, 39; Scheffer Obs. Phyt. 1. 4, 26, 65; Ann, Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 1; King in 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 17.—U. grandiflora, Rozb. Fl. Ind. ii. 665; Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. ti. @ 121; Wall. Cat. 6485, A. to D. and H.; Wight and Arn. Prod. 9.— 
U. platypetala, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 257.—U. rodantha, Hance in Walp. 
Ann. ii. 19.—Unona grandiflora, DC. Prod. i. 90. — 
In ali the Malayan provinces. Distrib—Malayan Archipelago, S. China, Phillipines. 
Var. tuberculata ; fruits prominently tuberculate. 
Perak,—King’s Coilector Nos. 960 and 4786. | 
A plant collected in the island of Bangka, closely resembling this in leaves, but 
with larger flowers and with yellow petals, has been described by Messrs. Teysmann and 
Binnendyk under the name of JU. flava (Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. xxix. 419). It has 
also been figured by Miquel (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 6, ¢. 1). I fear it is merely a 
form of U. purpurea; but not having seen fruiting specimens, I hesitate to reduce it 
here. : 
Puate 12. Uvaria purpurea, Blume. 1, Flowering branch; 2,  flower-bud; 
3, unripe carpels; 4, section of unripe carpel; 5, ripe carpels—all of natural size. 
10. Uvarta ovalirotia, Blume Fl. Jave Anon. 27, t. 8 & 14A. A strong climber; 
young branches and petioles rufous-pubescent but speedily glabrous. Leaves 
coriaceous, elliptic, the apex mucronate or shortly and abruptly acuminate, base 
broad, rounded, or emarginate; upper surface rigid, shining, glabrous except the 
pubescent midrib; lower at first puberulous but speedily becoming glabrous; main 
