Mdodorum.] floka indica. 119 



confounded by Roxburgh. This is the more Ukely, because there are two small frag- 

 ments of the true M. hicolor glued on the same sheet with M. Wallichii in the 

 Linn. Soc. Herb., and several more of the same among the duplicates of that collec- 

 tion, though that plant does not elsewhere occur in the Wallichian collection. The 

 only tangible part of Roxburgh's description is the globose fruit, and that is only ap- 

 plicable to the species called by us M. bicolor. This we have compared with an 

 authentic specimen from Roxburgh in the British Museum, in flower and fruit. We 

 only know the fruit of the present species by a single specimen collected by us in 

 Khasia. It is not unlike that of M. verrucosum in shape, but less wrinkled; but it is 

 far from ripe. 



6. M. verrucosum (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis 

 crebre nervosis supra nitidis pube minuta puberulis secus costam sub- 

 tomentosis subtus fulvo-pubescentibus secus nervos sericeo-villosis, ilo- 

 ribus fasciculatis vel subracemosis plerumque terminalibus, alabastris 

 latis obtuse triquetris, carpellis longe pedicellatis obUquis rostratis 

 valde rugosis. 



Hab. In mout. Khasia, alt. 4-5000 ped.— (M. JuL.Fr. Oct.) (». v) 



Frutex alte scandens, ramosus, dense foUosus. Hamuli grisei vel rufescentes, len- 

 ticellis albidia creberrimis notati, rugulosi, puberuli, demum glabresceutes, juniores 

 cum omnibus partibus novellis fulvo-tomentosi. FoHa 3-5 poU. longa, li-2 lata, 

 petiole poUicari, basi rotundata vel acutiuseula, apice obtusa vel acuta. Flores ad 

 apices ramulorum 1-5, solitarii, fasciculati, vel racemulum pauciflornm foliosum 

 formantes, floribua inferioribus oppositifoliis. Pedicelli fulvo-tomentosi, pollicares, 

 basi pluribracteati, et versus medium braeteolas ] -2 ovales amplectentes 2-3 lineas 

 longas gercntes. Alabastri quam in cseteris speciebus breviores, latiores, dense to- 

 mentosi. Sepala i-poll., late ovata, costata, in fructu snbpersistentia. Petala ex- 

 terlora late ovata, extus dense tomentosa, intus cinereo-incana, medio linea vix ele- 

 vata obscure carinata, f— f poll, longa ; interiora pauUo breviora, triangulari-oblonga, 

 intus concava, glabriuscula, impressionibus staminum areolata, supeme longe tri- 

 quetra. Processus connectivi magnus, ovalis. Ooaria dense fusco-pilosa. Torus 

 frnctus globosus. Carpella pulposa, subglobosa, vel late ovoidea, bipollicaria, ob- 

 liqna, obtuse mucronata, irregulariter verrucoso-tuberculata, tomentosula, suffulta pe- 

 dicellis l^-3-poUicaribu3 crassis clavatis longitudinaliter striatis. Semina biserialia, 

 partitionibus ceUulosis separata, -f-l poll, longa, oblonga, compressa, irregulariter 

 transverse rugosa, margine toto annulo lato prominente tuberculato versus hilum 

 Iffivigato medio secus longitudinem profunde sijcato circumdata. 



This species is certainly very near the last, but it diflers, we think, essentially in 

 the leaves being much more tomentose beneath, vrith more numerous transverse 

 nerves, and especially by the very broad short flowers. We are, however, unac- 

 quainted with the fruit of M. Wallichii, except in a very young state. If the species 

 be distinct, which we believe them to be from their general aspect, no doubt good 

 characters wiE be found in the fruit. 



7. M. bicolor (H.f. et T.); foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis 

 tenuiter coriaceis crebre nervosis supra prseter costana fulvo-pubescen- 

 tera glabris subtus cum petiolo pilis cinereis vel fulvis longe et adpresse 

 sericeis, floribus fasciculatis extra-axiUaribus majusculis, carpellis globo- 

 sis breviter pedicellatis toraentosis. — Uvaria bicolor, Roxb. M. Ind. ii. 

 663 {non Wall). 



Hab. Iu provinciis Silhet ! et Assam ! et secus basin Himalayoe in 

 montibus inferioribus Sikkim !— (w. v.) 



Frutex scandens. Hamuli elongati, foliosi, cortice cinereo, rugulosi, pubescentes. 



