PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 99 



oval, acuminate, obscurely serrate, smooth. Petioles short, 

 villous, spreading, convex below, furrowed above. Eacemes 

 terminal, few flowered, one sided ; proper pedicels short, 

 straight, a little villous. Flowers large, yellow. Calyx, 

 perianth five leafed ; leaflets roundish, concave, coriaceous, 

 villous, without, smooth within, large, widely spreading, per- 

 sistent. Corolla, petals five, obovate, twice the length of the 

 calyx, widely spreading. Stam : filaments very numerous, 

 club-shaped, in a double series ; the outer, many, spreading, 

 slender, shorter than the calyx ; the inner fewer, erect, thicker, 

 shorter than the former, closely surrounding the germ, an- 

 thers linear, erect, the inner twice as long as the outer. Pistil, 

 germs eight or nine, subulate, acuminate internally connected ; 

 Styles none; Stigmas one to each germ, lanceolate, patent, 

 forming a star. Follicles eight or nine, hatchet-shaped, 

 straight within, convex without ; at first erect ; when ripe 

 reflected, opening at the interior suture. Seeds: few, reniform, 

 covered with a fleshy aril, connected to the interior suture of 

 the capsule. 



A native of the hills. Flowered in the Honourable Com- 

 pany's spice plantation. 



Nelumbium, Willd. 



Juss. Gen. PL ed. Uster p. 76. Gen. Char. " Calyx four 

 or five leafed; Cor. manypetaled. " Nuts one seeded ; crown- 

 ed with the persistent style, immersed in a truncated recep- 

 tacle." 



Nelumbium speciosum, Willd. %,, p. 1258. 



"Root creeping, Leaves peltate orbicular, entire; Pe- 

 duncles and petioles murexed, flowers double rose coloured or 

 white. " Roxb. Nymphoea nelumbo Linn. 



Growing in tanks ; the seeds esculent. 



UVARIA. 



Uvaria odoratissi?na, Roxb. (Artabotrys odoratissima) . 



In the Company's spice plantation. Came from China. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53. 1909- 



