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small bracteoles about the middle.. Sepals broadly ovate, triangular, connate at the 
base, spreading, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, ‘2 to 25 in. long. Petals leathery, 
ovate-lanceolate; the outer *5 in. long, minutely tomentose outside; the inner puberulous 
on the outer, glabrous on the inner, surface. Sfamens numerous, short; the connective 
broadly and obliquely triangular at the apex. Ovaries oblong, curved, densely sericeous; 
style glabrous; stigma small. Carpels sub-globose, densely and boldly warted, puberulous, 
15 or even 2 in. in diam; stalks 4 to 8 in. long. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 80; 
Kure For. Fl. Burm. i. 48. 
Khasia Hills; elevat. 1,000 to 5,000 feet. Yunan. 
Prare 177A. Melodorum verrucosum, A. fi & Yh. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe 
carpel—of natural size; 3, flower dissected; 4, anthers; 5, pistils—enlarged. 
10. Metoporum tatirotiuM, Hook. fil. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 116. A large climber; 
young shoots velvety-rufous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or narrowly elliptic, 
sub-acute or obtuse, the base rounded; upper surface minutely pubescent, the midrib 
tomentose ; lower surface uniformly covered with short soft brown tomentum; main nerves 
16 to 24 pairs, spreading, bold, not inter-arching; length 3 to 75 in., breadth 1:75 
to 2°5 in.; petiole 4 to ‘7 in., stout, channelled, tomentose. //owers from *6 to 1°25 in, 
in diam. when expanded, brown, in lax axillary or terminal racemes or panicles; pedicels 
-35. to *5 in. with bracteole at the base. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, connate into a flat 
triangular cup, ‘25 in. wide, tomentose outside, glabrous withm like the outer petals. 
Petals thick, fleshy, ovate, acuminate, -4 to ‘7 in. long; the inner much smaller. Stamens 
very numerous; the apex of the connective triangular, acute; anther-cells linear, lateral. 
Ovaries about 6, obliquely oblong, densely sericeous, 6- to 8-ovuled; stigma small, sessile, 
Ripe carpels globose to ovoid, slightly apiculate and slightly tapering to the base, densely 
velvety and minutely tomentose, 1 to 2°25 in. long and 1 to 1°2 in. in diam.; stalks 
stout, velvety, °75 to 1°75 in. long; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 79; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i. pt. 2, 35; King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 105; Wall. Cat. 9411.— 
M. mollissimum, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 374.—Uvaria latifolia, Blume Fi. Jav. “iy 
#, 15.—Unona latifolia, Dunal Anon. 115.—Uvaria longifolia, Bi. Bijdr. 13. 
-Malacca,— Grifith. Singapore,—Mainga yy Hulleti. Perak; ans common. Distrib.— 
Sumatra, Java, Phillipines. 
Uvaria latifolia, Blume, as described and figured by that author, has jaige? flowers 
than the common Perak plant, and its carpels are globular, whereas those of the Perak 
plant are ovoid and apiculate. The plant figured by Blume does, however, occur there 
but it is not common. The forms may be characterised thus :— 
Var. typica. Flowers ‘7 in. long; fruit globular, not apiculate, 1 in. in diam. 
Uvaria latifolia, Blume J..c. ¢. 15. . Perak, Java. 
Var. ovoidea. Flowérs *5 in. long, fruit ovoid; slightly. apiculate, often oblique, 
as much as 2°25 in. lotig, very oblique: and: warted when’ young. M. 
latifolium, H. f. & Th. Fl. Bre Ind. 79. . Malacca, Perak, eee 
The common form in the ey ise | 
Piate 178. Melodorum Jatifolium,. H. 7 & Th, 1; Flowering beartahlp | 2, flower 
dissected ;»3, ripe. carpels—of natural size ; 4, anthers; .5, pistils—of natural size. 
