30" 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs, usually climbing: inflorescence terminal 
or leaf-opposed: flower-buds triquetrous, tomentose: sepals 3, 
more or less combined at the base: petals 6, in two rows, valvate 
in aestivation, outer ones convex, inter ones triquettous above: sta- 
mens in many rows: connectivum produced into an oval or oblong’ 
fleshy process beyond the linear extrorse cells of the anthers: disk 
‘convex-conical: ovaries numerous, oblong, many-ovuled : styles 
oblong. 
(1) M. rvpieinosum. (H. F. § T) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 116. 
_ Syn. Uvaria rubiginosa, Alph. Dec. Mem. 26.—U. nervosa, 
Wall. 
Srec. Cuan. Climbing: young parts densely tawny-tomentose : 
leaves oblong, obtuse, acute at the apex, sometimes narrowed into 
# short subulate acumen, sparingly puberulous above, villous beneath, 
with minute tawny. pubescence: flowers axillary, solitary or gene~ 
rally collected into a 5—6-flowered terminal panicle, densely tawny- 
tomentose: pedicels with 1-2 small ovate bracteoles below the mid- 
dle: outer petals oval-oblong, tomentose outside, inner ones shorter, 
narrower, concave from an oval base, produced into a long trique- 
trous beak, ash-grey at the back: disk densely strigose between 
the ovaries: ovaries densely strigose: carpels 5~10 or more, tawny- 
tomentose : seeds in two rows, separated by thin partitions. 
Silhet, Chittagong. 
(2) M. Watticnn. (H. F. §& 7.) 
Ident. Wook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 118. 
_ Syn. Uvaria bicolor, Wall. (not Rowd.) 
Spec. CHar. Climbing shrub: leaves narrow, oblong-lanceo=- 
late, usually long-acuminated, round ed at the base, glabrous above, 
somewhat puberulous beneath: peduncles leaf-opposed, very short: 
pedicels tomentose, furnished’ with small ovate bracteoles at the 
base: sepals tomentose outside: petals ovate-lanceolate, outer ones 
tawny-tomentose outside: carpels densely tomentose when unripe, 
seated on a globose torus, 
Silhet. .Khasia hills. 
(3) M. verrucosum. (H. F. & T.) 
- Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 119. 
Srec. Cuar. Climbing.: leaves oblong or lanceolate, much: 
nerved, shining above, somewhat tomentose towards the rib, covered 
beneath with tawny-pubescence and silky-villous on the nerves: 
flowers 1-5 at the tops of the branchlets, lower ones leaf-opposed : 
pedicels tawny-tomentose, with many bracts at the base and 1-2 
oval bracteoles towards the middle : flower-buds broad: sepals broad- 
ovate, ribbed: outer petals broad-ovate, densely-tomentose outside, 
white ash-grey inside, obscurely keeled in the middle, inner ones 
