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ia these respects, as well in the comparative fewness of the seeds in 
their ripe carpela, they diverge from those of typical Uvarias. Hooker 
filius and Thomson (in their Flora Iudica), Bentham and Hooker (in 
their Genera Plantarum), and Baillon (iu 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 Bocarjea in his Flora of British India. The extreme imbrication 
both of the sepals and petals appeal's 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 
very distinctly valvate, that I adhere to the earlier view that Sageraea 
should remain distinct and be put in the tribe UvarioB. 
1. Sageraka elliptica, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 93. A large 
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 3*5 in. ; petiole *15 in , very thick. Flotvers monoe- 
cious, solitary and axillary, or fascicled on tubercles on the largttr 
branches, small, red : pedicels '25 in. long, with several basal aud medial 
bracts. Sepals small, semi-orbicular, glabrous, ciliate. Petals thick, 
ovate-orbicular, concave, tubercular outside, glabrous, the edges ciliatp, 
*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. Ripe carpels sub-sessile, glo- 
bose, glabrous, 1 in. in diam., seeds several. Sageraea Hooker t, Pierre Flore 
Forest. Coch-Chine t. 15. Bocagea elliptica, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 
92; Kuvji V. Flora Burma, I, 50. Uvaria elliptica, A. DO. in Mem. Soc. 
Genev. v. 27; Wall. Cat. (5470, 7421. Dwspyros ? frondosa, Wall. Cat. 
4125. 
Buruiah to Penan g. 
An imperfectly known species, badly represented in collections. 
8. Cyathostemma, Griffith. 
Scandont shrubs. Flowers subgloboso in di- or tri-chotomous pendu- 
lous cymes from the old wood (flowers dimorphous in sp. 3.) Sepals 3, 
connate, hirsute. Petals 6,2-seriate, short, sub-equal, their bases fleshy, 
all valvato at the base, the tips imbricate. Torus flat, margin convex. 
Stamens many, linear ; anthers sub-introrsc ; process of connective oh- 
lique, incurved. Ovaries many ; style cylindric, glabrous, notched ; ovules 
many. Ripe carprls oblong-ovoid, many-seeded. 
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