24 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
narrowed to the rounded base; both surfaces with short, stellate, rather pale hairs, 
scabrid on the upper, soft on the lower, surface; the midrib and 10 to 15 pais of 
spreading curving slightly promment main nerves softly rufous-stellate-tomentose on 
both surfaces; length 3 to 5 in, breadth 13 to 2 im; petiole 15 in., stellate- 
tomentose. Flowers *75 to 1°2 in. in diam., 2 or 3 together in short supra-axillary cymes ; 
pedicels stellate-tomentose like the outer surface of the calyx, ‘3 or ‘4 in. long, with a 
large, orbicular, amplexicaul bracteole. Sepals orbicular, connate into an obscurely 
3-toothed spreading cup ‘4 in. in diam., glabrescent inside. Pe/als spreading, sub-orbicular 
to broadly oblong, very blunt, sub-equal, rather thin, mimutely pubescent on both surfaces 
but especially on the outer, dark reddish-brown. Stamens numerous (the outer row 
converted into sub-quadrate staminodes), compressed, broad, without filaments; the apical 
_ process of the connective broad and flat; anther-cells on the edges of the connective, 
linear. Ovaries numerous, crowded, elongate, narrow, compressed, ridged, minutely 
stellate-tomentose; the ovules numerous; stigma sessile, short and broad, fleshy, obliquely 
truncate. Ripe carpels ovoid or obovoid, blunt at both ends, minutely pubescent, 1°2 to 
15 in. long; stalks nearly 1 in., stellate-tomentose. Seeds numerous in two rows, 
horizontal, oval, compressed, pale brown, shining. 
Pahang,—Ridley. Perak,—WScortechini. 
Prate 24B, Uvaria Ridleyi, King. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, flowers; 3, young 
carpels; 4, ripe carpels—of natural size; 5, flower; 6, andro-gyncecium and calyx; 7, 
calyx, pedicel and bracteole; 8 & 9, staminodes; 10 & 11, anthers; 12 & 13, ovaries— 
enlarged. 
14. Uvaria FeRRucINEA, Ham. uss. er H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 96. An erect low 
shrub; young branches softly rufous-tomentose. Leaves thickly membranous, oblong or 
elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, sub-acute or rather obtuse, the base sub-cuneate ; 
upper surface densely adpressed-pubescent, the hairs short and silvery, glabrescent when 
old; under-surface softly stellate-tomentose; main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, oblique, 
inter-arching close to the edge, prominent beneath as are the transverse veins; length of 
blade 3°5 to 5:5 in., breadth 1:5 to 2°5 in.; petiole -25 in., tomentose. Flowers 1 in. 
to 1:25 im. in diam., terminal or leaf-opposed, usually solitary, sometimes in pairs; 
pedicel *35 to -5 in. long, its bracts oblong or lanceolate, deciduous. Sepals coriaceous, 
broadly ovate, sub-acute, spreading, conjoined at the very base, softly tomentose outside, 
glabrescent inside. Petals coriaceous, slightly unequal, broadly ovate; the outer and 
inner row sub-similar, densely covered with pale grey tomentum. Anthers short, 
cuneate; the connective prolonged above their apices, much thickened, rounded or 
quadrate-truncate. Carpels about 10, shortly stalked, oblong-cylindriec, tapering to the 
apex, smooth, shining, 4 to ‘5 in. long and ‘2 to ‘25 in. in diam, Seeds about 2, ovoid, 
often compressed at one end, shining. Kurz For. Fl. Burm, i, 29.—Ellipeia ounon 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 52. 
Burmah: in the Provinces of Pegu and Martaban,—Hamilton, Eyre, Kurz, Brandis. 
Eastern Bengal,—C. B. Clarke. 
A species badly represented in collections. Mr. Clarke’s fruiting specimens (collected 
2S the order Anonacee was treated of in the Flora of Brit. India) show that this 
is a true Uvartiz and not an Ellipeia, there being more seeds than one. 
