ys ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
nerves 10 to 16 pairs, thin, spreading, slightly prominent on the lower, sub-impressed on 
the upper, surface ; length of blade 5 to 9 in., breadth 2°5.to 4 in. ; petiole °3 to cats 
stout.  Peduneles terminal or extra-axillary, ‘5 in. long, 8- or 4-flowered; the pedicels 
much longer, slender, all scaly-tomentose as are the 38 or 4 ovate to rotund bracts ; 
buds globose or depressed-globose ; flowers 1 to 1:35 in. in diam. Sepals rotund, reni- 
form, united into an obscurely 3-toothed shallow cup, warted and scaly-pubescent outside, 
minutely pubescent inside. Pedals coriaceous, much larger than the calyx, broadly oval 
or oval-oblong, sub-obtuse, minutely but densely pubescent on both surfaces; the outer 
warted. Stamens sessile, the projecting connective at the apex quadrate or rhomboid 
in the inner, flattened and oblique in the outer, anthers. Ovaries longer than the 
anthers, truncate, pubescent. Carpels numerous, stalked, oval, smooth, glabrous, very 
blunt at the apex, less so at the base, when ripe about 1 im. long and ‘65 in. 
in diam.; stalks thin, ‘75 to 1 in. long. Seeds about 8 in two rows, compressed, 
smooth. Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. u. 7; Scheff. Obs. Phyt. iui. 26, 65; Ann. Jard. 
Bot. Buitenzorg ii, 2. | 
Mergui,—J. Anderson. Distrib—Java; Bangka; Borneo,—<orthals, Beccari Nos. 
1760 and 8758, Frazer; Phillipines. 
This, im my opinion, might very well be treated as merely a_ glabrous 
form of JU. macrophylla, Roxb. It is not a common plant in British India, the 
only unmistakable specimens of it which I have seen having been collected in 
Tenasserim (at Mergui) by Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.s., whose zoological researches 
in that Archipelago have yielded such rich results. U. Rosenbergiana, Scheffer, 
fron New Guinea [Scheff. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg i. 2 (Beccari Pl. Papuan 
No. 370 4dis)| appears to me to be undistinguishable from this. I have not seen 
authentic specimens of U. littoralis, Bl. (Fl. Javee Anon. 26, t. 7 (Unona littoralis, 
Bl. Bijdr. 16)]. But, judging from Blume’s descriptions and figure, that species 
cannot be very different from this. In the case of their identity, J. litforalis being 
the older as a described species, its specific name would stand, I presume, as 
that of the plant. Miquel, in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 6, reduces his own species 
U. acrantha (Vl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 368) and his U. macrophylla, var. glabrior le., to a 
variety of ovalifolia, and I think he is quite right in making these reductions. I 
am inclined to believe that Miquel’s species U. Bornensis should also be reduced to 
U. ovalifolia. | 
| Puate 13, Uvaria ovalifolia, Bi. 1, Flowering branch; 2, fruit ; 3, vertical section 
of carpel; 4, seed—all of natural size. 3 
11, Uvarra uisuta, Jack Mal. Misc. (Hook, Bot. Mise. ii. 87). A sarmentose 
shrub, but often climbing to the length of from 15 to 50 feet; young branches and 
petioles with numerous, rather stiff, reddish-brown hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, acute or sub-acute, the base 
rounded or minutely cordate; upper surface with scattered sub-adpressed, stiff, mostly 
simple hairs, the midrib tomentose; lower surface with more numerous stellate and 
simple hairs; main-nerves 9 to 14 pairs, spreading, depressed on the upper surface 
(when dry) but prominent on the lower; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 2°25 to 325 TDs 
petiole -2 in, Peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, lateral or terminal, not axillary, 1- rarely 
2-flowered; flowers 125 to 15 in, in diam. ; bract solitary (rarely 2 or 3), lanceolate, 
