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Leaves membranous, obi an ceolate- oblong, caudate-acuminate, the baa© 
acute ; both surfaces glabrous shining and minutely reticulate ; the 
midrib depressed above and puberulous, beneath prominent and minntely 
nauriculato : main nerves 10 to 1 1 pairs, spreading, curved, sub-ascending, 
prominent beneath, depressed above : length 8 to 9 in. ; breadth 2"2 
to 2"5 in. ; petiole "15 in,, tomentose. Cymes of hermaphrodite flowers 
rufous- pubescent, 4 to 6 in. long ; pedicel about as long as the branches, 
the latter with numerous distichous, oblong, nervosa bracts. Flowers 4 
to 5 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Sepals triangular, blunt, spread- 
ing. Petals as in 0. Scortechinii; connective of stamens forming at the 
apex a thick incurving point. Ovaries as in Q. Scortechirtii but with 
conical stigma. Cy mes of female flowers much shorter than those of the 
hermaphrodite, dichotomous, few-flowered, about 1*5 in. long (of which 
the peduncle is 1 in.) ; slightly rufous-pubescent; bracts few, lanceolate. 
Flowers about "4 in. in diam. when open, buds conical. Sepals broadly 
triangular, cordate, acute, spreading, pubescent. Petah coriaceous, 
granular- pubescent, concave ; the outer broadly ovate- triangular, the 
apox sub-acute, incurved in bud; the inner row smaller, narrower, 
erect, connivent. Stamens absent. Ovaries as in the hermaphrodite, 
but the stigma larger, and not conical. 
Upper Ferak ; Wray No. 3468. 
A remarkable species of which I have seen only Wray's incomplete 
specimens. These specimens are accompanied by some loose young 
carpels, ovate -globular, oblique, with persistent recurved styles, and a 
single or at most two seeds. If these carpels really belong to the speci- 
men, the definition of the genus will have to be modified. The structure 
of both the hermaphrodite and pistillate flowers agrees perfectly with 
that of the other species above desoribed. 
4. Uvakia, Linn. 
Seandent or sarmentose shrubs, usually stellately pubescent. Flow* 
ers terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely axillary, cymose, fascicled or solitary, 
yellow, purple or brown. Sepals 3, often connate below, valvate. Petals 6, 
orbicular, oval or oblong, imbricate in 2 rows, sometimes connate at tho 
base. Stamens indefinite ; top of connective ovoid-oblong, truncate or 
subfoliaceous. Torus depressed, pubescent or tomentose. Ovaries in- 
definite, linear-oblong \ st jle short, thick ; ovules many, 2-seriate, rarely 
few or 1-seriate. Ripe carpels many, dry or berried, few- or many- 
seeded. — Distrib. About 110 species — many tropical Asiatic, a few 
African species, and some Australian, 
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