98 FLORA INDICA, \_AHonacea. 



fruit ; or at least the suites of specimens available in herbaria are not sufficient to 

 enable a correct conclusion to be drawn as to the extent to which the leaves vary. 

 Wallich's figure and description are the authority for this species, and there are good 

 specimens of it in the Linnsean herbarium, both in flower and fruit. "We have also 

 before us numerous flowering specimens from all parts of Trans-Gangetic India, 

 but no fruit, except on the Wallichian specimens. There is, however, a very simi- 

 lar species from the Philippines (Cuming, 751), which has long-pedicelled gla- 

 brous carpels ; and as this is undistinguishable save by the fruit, it is quite possible 

 that some of our specimens may belong to it. Others are probably referable to U. 

 semecarpifolia, or to a third species, as there are considerable difierences in the 

 form and texture of the leaves, some being membranous and some rigidly coriaceous : 

 this, however, may depend on age. Z/. liitoralis and ovalifolia of Blume are also 

 evidently very nearly allied, but we do not venture to unite them without seeing 

 specimens. 



In the Wallichian collection at the Linnean Society there is a specimen in fruit 

 under the letter F, which certainly does not belong to this species, though we think 

 the larger leaves on the same sheet do. In this the carpels are globose, rngulose, 

 covered with brown tomentum, and more than half an inch in diameter, with a pedi- 

 cel more than an inch long. The leaves on the specimen are elliptic-obovate, sub- 

 cordate at base, five inches long by three broad, stellato-pubescent below, but they 

 are not sufficient to identify it with any of the species here described. "We arc, how- 

 ever, inclined to believe that M. Alph. De CandoUe must have received a similar 

 fruiting specimen along with his specimen, because we cannot doubt (notwithstand- 

 ing the discrepancies in his character of the fruit) that his TJ. rufescens is "WalUch's 

 TJ. macropJiylla. This appears evident when the localities of TJ. rufescens, given by 

 De CandoUe, are compared with those in "Wall. Cat., in which TJ. rufescens is not re- 

 ferred to. 



6. U. dulcis (Dunal, Anon. 90, t. 18) ; foliis ovalibus vel oblon- 

 gis supra puberulis subtus dense furfuraceo-tomentosis, pediinculis ab- 

 breviatis subumbellatim 1-4-floris, petalis oblongis basi ooalitis. — DC. 

 Syst. i. 483, Prod. i. 88 ; Spr. Syst. ii. 639. U. Javana, Dun. Anon. 91. 

 t. 14 ; DC. Syst. i. 483, Prod. i. 88. 



Hab, In peninsula Malayana ad Malacca, Oriff.! — [v. s.) 



DisTEiB. Java, PL. ' 



Frutex alte scandens. Hamuli atro-fusci, juniores stellato-tomentosi. Folia ob- 

 tusa vel acutiuscula vel abrupte acuminata, basi rotundata vel retusa, margine sub- 

 repanda, 3-5 poU. longa, \-% lata, petiolo tomentoso 2-3 lineas longo, coriacea, 

 supra pilis minutis steUatis vel simplicibus sub lente tantum conspicuis tecta, subtus 

 venosa. Fedimculi lignosi, J-^-pollicares, bracteis pluribua ovatis parvis tomentosis, 

 pedicelli 1-4, -J- 1 poU. longi, medio bracteolati, bracteolis bracteis similibus. Jla- 

 bastri globosi, dense cinereo-tomentosi. Flores odorati. Sepala late ovalia, basi 

 concreta, obtusiuscula. Fetala patentia, fere poUicaria, utrinque tomentosa. Sta- 

 mina abbreviata, est. sterilia. 



Sufficiently distinct from TJ. macrophylla in the smaller size of the leaves, and in 

 the shape and aspect of the flowers. It is near TJ. rufa, Blume (a species which has 

 not been found within our limits), but that is more frequently one-flowered, and the 

 petals are a good deal smaller aud broader. TJ. mierocarpa. Champion (from Hong- 

 kong), is also closely allied, but nearer to TJ. rufa, from which it difi^ers by the smooth 

 not transversely sulcate carpels, and by the large flowers, which are not distinguish- 

 able from those of TJ. macrophylla, Roxb. Blume distinguishes TJ. Javana from U. 

 dulcis by the stellate, not simple, hairs of the upper surface of the leaves. He seems, 

 however, to trust entirely to Dunal's iigure, without having seen specimens of TJ. 

 dulcis. In our specimens we see simple and stellate hairs intermixed. 



