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



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11. JJ. Scortechinii. 



12. JJ. micrantha. 



12. JJ. micrantha. 



13. 



JJ. andamanica. 



14. 



JJ. excelsa. 



15. 



JJ. astrosticta. 



16. 



JJ. sub-repanda. 



many-flowered lateral narrow 

 panicles... 

 Leaves glabrous except the midrib, 2'5 to 

 5 in. long ; flowers less than '5 in. in 

 diain. 

 Flowers small (less than "5 in. in diam.) 

 Leaves glabrous except the midrib 

 Leaves pubescent. 



Leaves on under-surface stellate rufous- 

 pubescent ; young branches and flow- 

 ers outside with scurfy rufous tomen- 

 tum 

 Leaves on under surface and young 

 branches minutely tawny-tomentose .. 

 Species of doubtful position. 



Probably near JJ. Lobbiana ... 

 With axillary flowers 



1. Uvaria Larep, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber 20 

 to 40 feet long : youngest branches and petioles sparsely covered with 

 minute scaly stellate hairs ; the older cinereous, lenticellate, glabi'escent. 

 Leaves membranous, elliptic or sub-obovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub-emarginate, 

 not cordate, base : upper surface glabrous, shining, the midrib minutely 

 tomentose ; lower surface with a few short spreading hairs on the midrib 

 and some of the nerves, otherwise almost glabrous ; main nerves 10 to 

 12 pairs, spreading, interarching within the edge, bold in the lower, im- 

 pressed on the upper, surface; length of blade 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 

 3 in., petiole "2 to 3 in. Peduncles from half-way between the leaves, 

 •1 in. long, I- to 2-flowered (one of the flowers often abortive), warted 

 and yellowish-pubescent ; pedicels '75 in. long, with 1 or 2 reniform 

 bracts : flowers 1*5 to 1'75 in. in diam. Sepals small, ("2 in. long) reniform, 

 united at the base, reflexed, pubescent. Petals oblong-oblanceolate, sub- 

 acute, about "75 in. long, sub-coriaceous, puberulous. Anthers sessile in 

 very few rows, flattened ; the connective slightly produced, flattened, 

 oblique. Ovaries numerous, angled, puberulous, with a few long pi'o- 

 jecting hairs near the apex. Torus of the fruit small, sub-globular, 

 pubescent. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, cylindric-oblong, oblique, 

 curved, slightly apiculate, rugulose, minutely rufous-pubescent, 125 to 

 15 in. long, and "5 in. in diam. Seeds about 10, in 2 rows, compressed, 

 shining. Stalks 125 to 1'5 in. long, rufous-tomentose. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 4011, Wray No. 1826. 



2. Uvaria Hamiltoni, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 96. A 



