Uvaria.] IV. ANONACE^. 21 



species. Receptacle slightly raised. Carpels numerous, with a short truncate 

 style, and several ovules in two rows along the inner angle. Berries distinct, 

 sessile, or stalked, usually with several seeds. Stems climbing or trailing. 

 Flowers usually rather large, leaf-opposed or axillary. 



A considerable genus, chiefly Asiatic, with a few African species. The following Australian 

 ones are both endemic. 



Petals all broad. Anthers dilated at the top, concealing the lateral cells . 1. U. membranacea. 



Outer petals ovate, contracted upwards, inner ones ovate-lanceolate . . . 2. U. Goezeana. 



1. U. membranacea (membranous), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 51. A tall woody 

 climber, quite glabrous, except a slight tomentum on the petioles and buds. 

 Leaves on short stalks, oval-oblong, obtuse, or with a very short, broad point, 6 

 to lOin. long, 3 to 3^in. broad, oblique, and somewhat cordate at the base, 

 thin and membranous, with distant primary veins branching into the reticulate 

 smaller venation. Flowers large, solitary, on peduncles of about fin. Petals 

 obovate, very obtuse, fully lin. long, narrowed, and slightly united at the base. 

 Connective truncate and dilated above the anther-cell. Ripe carpels numerous, 

 upon a globose receptacle, oblong, Ifin. long, with a diameter of fin., deep- 

 scarlet on stipites of about Ifin. Seeds lenticular, 5 lines diameter, with a more 

 or less prominent border. 



Hab. : Somerset, McGillivray, flowering specimens. Bailey, fruit June, 1897. 



At Somerset the leaves are attacked by the blight fungus Phyllosticta Uvaria. Berk. 



2. U. Goezeana (after B. Goeze), F. p. M. Fragm. vii. 125. A glabrescent 

 climber, attaining the height of 80ft. Leaves on short petioles, elliptical or 

 lanceolate-ovate to elongate-lanceolate, 3 to 6in. long, 1 to 2in. broad, upper side 

 shining, under side glaucous. Pedicels leaf-opposed, slender, 1 to Ifin. long, 

 with a solitary bract below the middle. Flowers fragrant, sepals 3 to 4 lines 

 long, rhomboid-ovate. Petals yellowish, thinly pilose, outer ones ovate, nearly 

 lin. long, imbricate at the base, inner ones ovate-lanceolate, not imbricate at the 

 base. Stamens 70 to 80, scarcely f line long, anther connective truncate and 

 dilated, concealing the cells. Stigma depressed, black. Carpels about 20, 

 moniliform, of from 6 to 9 articles, each 4 to 5 lines long. 



Hab. : Mountains around Eockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M. I.e. 



2. FITZALANIA, F. v. M. 



(After E. Fitzalan.) 



(Uvaria heteropetala, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 1.) 



Sepals small, distinct, deciduous, lanceolate-ovate. Petals 6, hypogynous, 



sessile, 2-seriate, the inner longer than the outer, which in the bud are sub- 



valvate at the base, and quite valvate at the upper part, inner ones imbricate in 



the bud. Stamens many-seriate, compressed, cuneate, indefinite. Anthers 



subsessile, coniective not dilated, anther-cells dorsal. Torus depressed, tomen- 



tose. Carpels numerous, free, 2-seriate, with 6 to 8 ovules in each. Stigmas 



subsessile, depressed. Berries cylindric-globose, few-seeded and not constricted 



between the seeds. Seeds in 1 series. — F. v. M. Frcujm. iv. 33. 



1. P. heteropetala (petals not all alike), F. i:. M. Fragm. iv. 33. A 

 scrubby shrub of 8 to 10ft., the young branches densely pubescent. Leaves on 

 very short petioles, broadly ovate, obtuse, or shortly acuminate, 2 to 4in. long, 

 not coriaceous, glabrous above, loosely pubescent underneath. Flowers dark 

 purple, solitary, on very short recurved terminal or lateral pedicels. Sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, villous, 3 to 4 lines long. Petals imbricate in each series, the 

 outer ones broadly ovate, attaining at least 7 lines, and probably longer when 

 full grown, silky-villous outside, glabrous inside, the inner ones narrower and 



