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Pirate 15. Uvaria ferruginea, Ham. 1, Flowering branch (from a Burmese 
specimen); 2, fruiting branch (from Mr. C. B. Clarke’s Eastern Bengal specimen); 3, 
the two seeds pf a carpel—of natural size ; 4, flower dissected ; 5, anthers—enlarged. 
15. Uvarra pauciovuntata, H. f. & T. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 51. A 
sub-scandent shrub; young branches densely stellate-rufous-tomentose. eaves coriaceous, 
rigid, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or obtusely acuminate the base rounded 
or cordate; upper surface (in adult leaves) shining, quite glabrous; the lower dull, 
sparsely pubescent; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, sub-ascending, curving, prominent 
beneath and impressed above; length of blade 2°5 to 6 in., breadth 1:25 to 3 in; 
petiole ‘2 in. Racemes terminal, umbellate, few-flowered, 1*5 to 2°5 in, long, seurfily 
rufous-tomentose; bracts numerous and imbricate towards the apex, rotund to ovate, 
tomentose; buds ovoid-globose; flowers 1°5 in. in diam. Sepals small (3 in. long), 
orbicular, sub-acute, connate to the middle and densely tomentose outside, densely and 
minutely puberulous inside. Petals very much larger than the sepals, sub-connivent, 
coriaceous, ovate-rotund, obtuse, the inner 3 narrower; all scaly-tomentose externally, 
densely and minutely pubescent and veined internally; anthers sub-sessile, cuneate ; 
connective slightly produced at the apex, truncate; ovaries longer than the stamens, 
flattened, stellate-hairy; stigma truncate; ovules 1 to3. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, 
sub-globose, mucronate, densely and minutely fulvous-tomentose, *35 to *5 in. in diam., 
l- to 2-seeded; stalk *5 to ‘75 in., rather slender. Seeds compressed, shining. King 
in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 61, pt. 2, 20. 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 104. Penang,—Curtis No. 825: at elevations 
of 500 to 600 feet. 
Pratre 16, Uvaria pauciovulata, H. f. & Th. 1, Flowering branch with young 
leaves; 2, fruiting branch with adult leaves; 3, flower, dissected; 4, vertical section 
of carpel; 5, seed—all of natural size. 
16. Uvarta Scorrecuinu, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 61, pt. 2, 20. A sarmen- 
tose flexuose shrub; young branches and _ petioles densely covered with rusty, floccose, 
rufous tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-rotund, obtuse, very slightly 
or not at all narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base; upper surface 
shining, glabrescent or glabrous, the deeply impressed midrib and nerves tomentose, 
transverse veins depressed when dry; under-surface minutely and softly rufous- 
pubescent especially on the midrib nerves and reticulations which are all bold and 
prominent; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading below, sub-ascending above, forming 
double arches within the edge; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 25 to 4 in; 
petiole *2 to ‘4 in, lowers 1-5 in. in diam., either in terminal umbels of 2 or 3, 
or in many-flowered lateral panicles 4 in. in length; peduncles ‘5 to ‘75 in. long; 
bracts numerous, but chiefly towards the apices of the peduncles, ovate-orbicular, covered 
with short, rufous, flocculent tomentum as are the branches and axes of the panicles. 
Sepals fleshy, triangular, sub-acute, connate in the lower third, concave, spreading, 
minutely pubescent. Petals fleshy, about 1 in. long, connivent;. the outer 3. ovate- 
rotund, very obtuse, tomentose-pubescent on both surfaces; the outer surface with some 
small superficial scales, the inner. with a round glabrous spot at the base; inner 3 petals 
obovate, clawed, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, except a broad pubescent band near 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Garp. Catcurra Vot. IV. 
