MILIUSA VELUTINA. (Nat. ord. Anonacese.) 



MlLIUSA. (Leech.) Gen. PI. p. 147.— GEN. CHA.lt. Flowers diseeious or hermathrodite ; sepals 3, minute; petals 6, exterior 3 minute, 

 equalling the sepals, interior 3 much larger slightly coriaceous, sestivation valvate ; stamens indefinite, loosely imbricated and inserted on a cylindrical 

 torus surrounding the ovaries ; anthers extrorse oval subdidyrnous 2-celled, connectivum scarcely apiculate ; ovaries numerous linear-oblong, style oblong ; 

 ovules 1-2 rarely more, inserted on to the ventral suture. Trees or shrubs — (Hyalostemma, Wall). 



IMlLIUSA VELUTINA. (Dunal.) A tree, branches densely tomentose, leaves ovate or oblong cordate at the base acute 

 or obtuse at the apex, velvetty-tomentoae on both sides, 3-6 inches long, If to 4 broad, petiole 2-3 lines long ; peduncles short, pedicels 

 3-6 elongate, slender, densely tomentose ebracteate 2-4 inches long, flowers hermathrodite densely tomentose, interior petals broadly 

 ovate, \ to \ inch long, densely tomentose outside, within subglabrous and blackish, ovaries downy 2 ovuled, carpels purplish-black 

 puberulous about |- an inch long on very short pedicels ; seeds 1-2, — H.f. el T. FL Incl. p. 151 ; — Uvaria velutina. Dunal Anon. 91 ; — 

 U. villosa. Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii, p. 664. 



I have only met with this tree in the Godavery forests and on the Circar mountains ; it is also found in Bengal and Bahar, at the foot 

 of the Himalayas, and in Birmah ; it yields a strung, yellow wood, luhich is said not to warp ; unseasoned it weighs 62 to 65 lbs. the cubic foot, and 

 50 lbs. when seasoned, and its specific gravity is '800. In the Oodavery Districts the natives use it for house building and make caioars of it, 

 and in Birmah it is used for poles of carts, harrows, yokes, spear-shajls and oars ; it is called Pedda Chilka dudagu in Teligoo, and Thabookyee 

 in Birmese ; it is cultivated in the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta. 



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