0 
the upper with very minute scales ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, sab- 
ascending, prominent, inter-arching 2 in. within the margin; length 
of blade 5 to 8 in. j breadth 175 to 275 in.; petiole 3 to *9 in. 
Male flowers mnch smaller than the female (only about 4 in. in diara.), 
in fascicles of 8 to 1G from miuntely bracteolate woody tubercles from 
the branches and trunk, pedicellate ; the pedicels slender, ebracfceolate, 
tomentose, from "5 to 75 in. long. Sepals coriaceous, triangular, spread- 
ing. Petals much longer than the sepals, oblong, sub-acute, wartcil, 
pubescent inside : anthers with obtuse termiual, dilated, 2-lobed apical 
appendages from the connective ; ovaries 0. Female flowers three times 
as large as the males, and on similar pedicels; calyx not persistent ; corolla 
as in the male. Ovaries numerous, on an ovoid-conic torus, oval or 
obovate, the outer surface compressed, the inner with a vertical ridge 
and adpressod, pale hairs ; stigma sessile, minutely lobed. Fruit on stout 
peduncles 2 to 3 in. long, thickened upwards. Ripe carpels few, shortly 
stalked, globose, obovate, about 1*5 in. long, and 1*25 in. in diara. ; when 
young puberulous, verrucose, afterwards nearly smooth ; pericai*p pulpy, 
coriaceous externally. Seeds 4 to 6, large, oval, sub-compressed, sub- 
rugose. Hook. fU. PI. Br. Ind. I, 47. Uvaria BurahoU Blume Bijdr. 14; 
Florte Javse Anon. 48, t. 23, and 25 C. ; Scbefi. in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. 
XXXI, 5. 
Singapore ; Lobb. Distrib. Java. 
There is sometimes a remarkable difference in the length of the 
petioles in this species, some of those on the same specimen being three 
times as long as others. 
2. Saorraea, Dahs. 
Trees. Leaves shining, and branches glabrous. Flowers small, 
axillary or fascicled on woody tubercles, 1-2-scxual. Sepals orbicular 
or ovate, imbricate. Petals 6, imbricate in 2 series, nearly equal, usually 
orbicular, very concave. Stameris 6-21, imbricate in 2 or more series, 
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. — 
Uistbib. 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 iu tiocugea, 
and in the apical process of the connective being truncate. The flowers 
of Saijeraea are small and the sepals and petals are very concave ; and 
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