1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 7 



broadly oblong, thick, fleshy ; anther-cells dorsal, oblong ; connective 

 produced. Ovaries 3-6 ; style short, stigma obtuse or capitate ; ovules 

 6 to 8, on the ventral suture. Ripe carpels globose or ovoid, stalked. — 

 Distrib. Species 6, tropical Asiatic. 



A genus closely allied to Bocagea, St. Hilaire, but differing from 

 that in having its sepals and petals much imbricate instead of valvate ; 

 in bearing more ovules, and more seeds in its ripe carpels ; in its 

 anther-cells being more lateral and not so entirely dorsal as in Bocagea, 

 and in the apical process of the connective being truncate. The flowers 

 of Sageraea are small and the sepals and petals are very concave ; and 

 in these respects, as well in the comparative fewness of the seeds in 

 their ripe carpels, they diverge from those of typical TJvariai. Hooker 

 filius and Thomson (in their Flora Indica), Bentham and Hooker (in 

 their Genera Plantarum), and Baillon (in his Histoire des Plantes, Vol. 

 I, 202, 281) retain Sageraea as a genus, — an example which I would have 

 followed without any hesitation had not Sir Joseph Hooker united it 

 with Bocagea in his Flora of British India. The extreme imbrication 

 both of the sepals and petals appears to me however, in spite of Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's more recent view, so insurmountable an argument 

 against its reduction to a genus in which both these sets of organs are 

 veiy distinctly valvate, that I adhere to the earlier view that Sageraea 

 should remain distinct and be put in the tribe Uvarios. 



1. Sageraea elliptica, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 93. A laro-e 

 tree ; all parts glabrous except the ciliate petals ; young branches rather 

 stout, angled. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, acute (obtuse, when 

 very old) ; the base narrowed, obtuse or minutely cordate, oblique : both 

 surfaces shining; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spreading, faint; length 8 to 12 

 in., breadth 2-25 to 35 in. ; petiole *15 in., very thick. Floivers monoe- 

 cious, solitary and axillary, or fascicled on tubercles on the laro-er 

 branches, small, red : pedicels "25 in. long, with several basal and medial 

 bracts. Sepals small, semi-orbicular, glabrous, ciliate. Petals thick 

 ovate-orbicular, concave, tubercular outside, glabrous, the edges ciliats 

 •25 in. long ; the inner smaller than the outer. Stamens 12 to 18 the 

 connective sub-quadrate at the apex ; anthers extrorse. Ovaries in female 

 flower about 3, glabrous ; ovules about 8. Pipe carpels sub-sessile, glo- 

 bose, glabrous, 1 in. in diam., seeds several. Sageraea Hooker i, Pierre Flore 

 Forest. Coch-Chine t. 15. Bocagea elliptica, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I 

 92 ; Kurz F. Flora Burma, I, 50. Uvaria elliptica, A. DC. in Mem. Soc 

 Genev. v. 27 ; Wall. Cat. 6470, 7421. Biospyros? frondosa, Wall. Cat! 

 4125. 



Burmah to Penang. 



An imperfectly known species, badly represented in collections. 



