30 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
24, Uvarra excersa, Wall. Cat. 6477. A creeper 30 to 100 feet long; young parts 
stellate-pubescent ; the branchlets tawny-tomentose, speedily becoming olabrous, dark- 
coloured and furrowed, Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, obovate-oblong to elliptic, the 
apex acuminate (sometimes very shortly), acute, rarely obtuse, slightly narrowed to the 
minutely cordate base; upper surface shining, glabrous except the puberulous depressed 
midrib; lower surface minutely tawny-tomentose; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, 
slender; length 3°5 to 7°5 in, breadth 1:5 to 4 im.; petiole °3 to ‘5 in., pubescent. 
Flowers white, °35 to ‘4 in. in diam., in contracted cymes from the branches below 
the leaves, or axillary; pedicels only about ‘2 in. long, rufous-tomentose with a large 
bract close to the flower. Sevals semi-orbicular, sub-acute, valvate, concave, spreading, 
tomentose outside, glabrous within. Petals in bud imbricate only at their apices, sub- 
equal, thick, concave, densely and minutely pubescent on both surfaces; the outer 
broadly ovate, acute, a little larger than the sepals; inner petals ovate, about as large 
as the sepals. Anzkers numerous, narrow, the cells linear, lateral; the apical process of 
the connective thick, sub-quadrate, obliquely truncate, minutely pubescent. Ovaries 
narrow, elongate, grooved, pubescent; the stigma thick, sub-capitate, sub-truncate; ovules 
numerous, in two rows. Ripe carpels sub-globular, slightly obovoid, blunt at each end, 
densely and minutely tomentose, 1:1 in. long and °9 in. in diam. Seeds about 14, in 
two rows, horizontal, half-oval, flat, smooth, brown. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, 
pt. 2, 22.—Mitrephora excelsa, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 114; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 77; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. pt. 2, 31. 
Penang,—Wallich, Curtis. Perak,—King’s Collector, Scortechini. Malacca,—Maingay 
(Kew Distrib.) No. 386 (in part), 
This plant was originally issued as a Uvaria by Wallich. His specimens of it, 
however, bore no mature flowers; and Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Thomson referred 
them doubtfully to Mitrephora. The excellent specimens recently collected by Mr. Curtis 
and by the Calcutta Garden Collector show the petals to be sub-equal and concaye, 
_imbricate at the apex only, the sepals being quite valvate. This of course is not the 
typical flower of a Uvaria, in which the petals are much imbricate. But the stamens 
ovaries and ripe fruit are more those of Uvaria than of any other genus. ; 
Pirate 26. Uvaria excelsa, Wall. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, single flower with its 
ee 2 young carpels; 6, ripe carpels; 7, section of ripe carpel to show the 
Doubtful Species, 
25. Uvarta asrrosticra, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A 
branches deciduously rufous-stellate-tomentose with 
glabrous, Striate and dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceclat 7 
slightly oblanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded or minutely cordate: €, sometimes 
ars scaberulous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves softly Es ee : ra 
ae re ii | ae softly tomentose, ultimately sparsely stellate-pubescent, | Ai 
aries: i ee ne a5 ay Ee to 16 ‘pairs, spreading, rather prominent on the lower 
ee ne za ae | : : m., breadth 1:5 to 1-8 in.; petiole *2 in. Peduneles 
bra ne ce = . | in y | dit), 2b to, 3-flowered, rufous-stellate-tomentose as are 
‘ud-rotund bracts; buds sub-globular; flowers ‘6 in, in diam. Sepals reniform, 
| climber ? Young 
simple hairs intermixed : ultimately 
