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stellate-scaly-tomentose and warted on the outer, pubescent on the inner, surface. Peta/s 
broadly obovate, obtuse; the apices inflexed, densely and minutely tawny-pubescent 
externally, minutely pubescent internally, lurid purple. Anfhers nearly ‘15 in. long with 
truncate apices. Ovaries about ‘1 in. long, pubescent, truncate. Torus woody, turbinate. 
Carpels numerous, on very long stalks, cylindric, slightly oblique; the apex blunt and 
slightly mucronate; the base slightly narrowed and 3-ridged, glabrous, 1°25 to 1°5 in, 
long and ‘6 in. in diam.; stalks rather stout, glabrous, triquetrous, 4 to 6 in. long. 
Seeds 3 to 6 in.a single row, compressed (those at the end sub-globular), smooth. 
Hook. fil., Fl. Br. Ind. i. 61. 
Khasia Hills, on the northern slopes,—ZHook. jil. § Thoms. KE. Himalaya on Mungpoo 
Peak, elev. 3,000 ft.,—@. King. S. Andaman,—ing’s . Collector. 
The fruit of this is now described for the first time. The species approaches 
U. Narum, Wall., and macropoda, H. f. & Th. 
Var. Sikkimensis, King. Flowers smaller (under 2 in. in diam.); calyx smaller 
and less tubercled. 
Prare 23. Uvaria lurida, H. f. & Th., var. Sikkimensis. 1, Flowering branch; 2 
& 3, flower-buds; 4, ovaries; 5, ripe carpels; 6, vertical section of carpel; 7, seed—of 
natural size; 8, anthers—enlurged; 9, flower of typical U. durida from Assam; 10, flower- 
bud of the same—Joth of natural size. 
23. UvaARIA ANDAMANICA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 21. Scandent; 
young branches rather stout, scurfily stellate-tomentose. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, much narrowed to the rounded, unequal or minutely cordate, base; upper 
surface glabrous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves coarsely puberulous; under-surface 
reticulate, stellate-rufous-pubescent on the midrib and 18 to 22 pairs of spreading, 
curving nerves; length 5°5 to 9 in., breadth 1:75 to 4 in.; petiole °3 in., tubercular. 
Flowers small, in short terminal or axillary cymes, rarely solitary; pedicels 3 in. long, 
densely covered like the outside of the sepals with sub-deciduous, coarse, rusty, stellate 
tomentum ; bracteole solitary, orbicular, ovate, close to the flower. Sepals valvate, 
orbicular, partly connate, glabrous inside. Petals imbricate, orbicular, fleshy, more or 
less puberulous outside, glabrous within; the inner rather smaller than the outer, but 
both under (in the young state) ‘25 in. in diam. Stamens numerous, narrowly elongate, 
the apex truncate more or less obliquely; anther-cells lateral. Ovaries absent in the 
staminiferous flower. Ripe carpels oblong, blunt (almost truncate) at each end, slightly 
tuberculate and densely covered with loose, sub-deciduous, rusty-stellate tomentum; 
pericarp rather thick. Seeds about 8, in two rows, plano-convex. 
South Andaman,—King’s Collector. 
This has been collected only on two occasions, once with undeveloped male flowers 
and once with immature fruit. The full size attained by the flowers is not known, and 
the measurements of sepals and petals above given are taken from buds. By its leaves 
and peculiar deciduous rusty-stellate tomentum the species is, however, readily recog- 
nisable. 
Prate 25. Uvaria andamanica, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels; 3, 
section of ripe carpel; 4, flower dissected—of natural size, : 
