L3 
Leaves glabrous except the midrib, 2*5 to 
5 in. long ; flowers leas than '5 in. in 
diam. 
Flowers small (less than 5 in. in diam.) 
Leaves glabrous except the midrib 
Leaves pubescent. 
Leaves on under-surface stellate rufous- 
pubescent ; young branches and flow- 
ers outside with scurfy rufous tomen- 
turn 
Leaves on under surface and young 
branches minutely tawny-tomentose 
Species of doubtful position. 
Probably near U. Lobbiana ... 
With axillary flowers ... 
12. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
U. micrantka. 
U. micrantha. 
U. andamanica. 
U. excelsa. 
JJ. astrosticla. 
U* sub-repamla. 
L Uvaria Larep, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 370. A climber 20 
to 40 feet long : youngest branches and petioles sparsely covered with 
minute scaly stellate hairs; the older cinereous, lenticellate, glabrescent. 
Leaves membranous, elliptic or sub-obovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate, 
slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub-emarginate, 
not cordate, base: upper surface glabrous, shining, the midrib minutely 
tomentose ; lower surface with a few short spreading hairs on the midrib 
and some of the nerves, otherwise almost glabrous ; main nerves 10 to 
12 pairs, spreading, interarohing within the edge, bold in the lower, im- 
pressed on the upper, surface ; length of blade 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 
3 in., petiole "2 to "3 in. Peduncles from half-way between the leaves, 
■1 in. long, 1- to 2-flowored (one of the flowers often abortive), warted 
and yellowish-pubescent; pedicels 75 in. long, with 1 or 2 reniform 
bracts : flowers 1"5 to 1'75 in. in diam. Sepals small, ("2 in. long) reniform, 
united at the base, roflexed, pubescent. Petals oblong-oblanceolate, sub- 
acute, about "75 in. long, sub-coriaceous, puberulons. Anthers sessile in 
very few rows, flattened; the connective slightly produced, flattened, 
oblique. Ovaries numerous, angled, puborulous, with a few lon^ pro- 
jecting hairs near the apex. Torus of the fruit small, sub-globular 3 
pubescent. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, cylindric-oblong, oblique, 
curved, Blightly apiculate, rugulose, minutely rufous-pubescent, 125 to 
1*5 in. long, and 5 in. in diam. Seeds about 10, in 2 rows, compressed, 
shining. Stalks V25 to 1*5 in, long, rufous- tomentose. 
Perak: King's Collector, No. 4011, Wray No. 1826. 
2. Uvar[a Hamilton-, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 96. A 
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