18 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



In all the provinces. Distrib : Malayan Archipelago, S. China, 

 Phillipines. 



Var. tuberctdata ; fruits prominently tuberculate. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Nos. 960, 4786. 



A plant collected in the island of Bangka, closely resembling this 

 in leaves, but -with larger flowers with yellow petals, has been described 

 by Messrs. Teysmann and Binnendyk under the uame of TJ.flava (Nat. 

 Tijds. Ned. Ind. XXIX, 419). It has also been figured by Miquel 

 (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 6, t. 1). I fear it is merely a form of Z7. 

 purpurea ; but not having seen fruiting specimens, I hesitate to reduce 

 it here. 



7. Uvapja hirsuta, Jack Mai. Misc. (Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 87.) 

 A sarmentose shrub but often climbing to the length of from 15 to 50 

 feet : young branches and petioles with numerous rather stiff reddish- 

 brown hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic- 



•!g, rarely obovate-oblong, acute or sub-acute, the base rounded or 

 minutely cordate ; upper surface with scattered sub-adpressed, stiff, 

 mostly simple hairs, the midrib tomentose ; lower surface with more 

 numerous stellate and simple hairs: main nerves 9 to 14 pairs, spread- 

 ing, depressed on the upper surface (when dry) but prominent on the 

 lower ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 225 to 325 in., petiole '2 in. Peduncles 

 1 to 2 in. long, lateral or terminal, not axillary, 1- rarely 2-flowered ; 

 flowers i'25 to 1'5 in. in diam. ; bract solitary (rarely 2 or 3), lanceolate, 

 deciduous : buds ovoid-globose, stiffly hairy. Sepals membranous, broad- 

 ly ovate, acute, connate, pilose outside, reflexed. Petals red, larger than 

 the sepals, broadly ovate, acute; outside tomentose with stiff hairs inter- 

 mixed, inside sub-glabrous ; anthers "15 in. long, sub-sessile, the connec- 

 tive at the apex often Blightly produced and obtuse. Ovaries 4-angled, 

 truncate, rufous-tomentose, shorter than the anthers. Ripe carpels 

 nnmi rous, stalked, cylindric, blunt, 15 to 2 in. long, covered (as are the 

 stalks and torus) with dense darkly ferruginous tomentum mixed with 

 stiff hairs : stalks 1 to 125 in. long : torus hemispheric : seeds numer- 

 ous, ovoid, plano-convex. Blume Fl. Javae, Anon. 22, t. 5 ; Wall. Cat. 

 (excl. C.) ; Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 99; Hook fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind, I, 48 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, I, Pt. 2, p. 24 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 8 ; 



BE. in Nat. Tijdsch. XXXI, 2 ; Zoll. in Linnasa XXIX, 304 ; Kurz 

 Flora Burm. I, 28 ; Scheff. Observ. Phyt. I, 2. U. triclwmalla, Bl. Fl. 

 Jav. Anon. 42, t. 18. U. velutina, Blume (not of Roxb.) Bijdr. 13. U. 

 pilosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 665. 



In all the provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago and Burmah. 



There is some difference amongst individuals as to the breadth of 

 the leaves, and on one of the forms with comparatively short but broad 

 leaves Blume founded his species U. trichomalla. 



