petiole 2 in., stout, Peduncles 5 in. long, lateral, not axillary, 1-flowered, 
solitary or 2 to 3 together, each bearing a small ovate deciduous bract; 
buds ovoid-globose, tomentose ; flowers 1 '25 to 1*5 in. in dinm. Sepals 
broadly triangular, sub-acute, slightly reflexed, fleshy, tomentose on 
both surfaces. Petals much longer than the sepals, sub-coriaceous, 
broadly ovate, sub-acute, sub- reflexed, minutely tomentose on the outer 
surface; pubescent on the inner. Stamens and pistils forming a compact 
hemispheric mass; anthers sub-sessile, '1 in. long, the connective much 
produced at the apex, compressed, oblique. Ovaries numerous, densely 
crowded, slightly shorter thun the stamens, tomentose. Torus depressed- 
hemispheric, stellatc-tomentose, pitted when adult. Ripe carpels numer- 
ous, stalked, ovoid, oblique, blunt, much and unequally tabercalate, 
densely and loosely ferruginous stellate- tomentose as are the 1 in. long 
stalks. DC. Prod. I, 88; Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Iud. 98; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 24 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 8. Z7. javana, Dnnal 
Anon. 91, t. 14; Blume Bijdr. 12; Fl. Java? t. 3 and 13 B. ; DC. Prod. 
I, 88 ? U. aurita Blume Fl. Java; t. 3. 
Malacca, Griffith ; Maingay (Kew Destrib.), Ko. 25, Perak, King's 
Collector. Penang, Curtis, No. 1414. 
As regards the size of its leaves and the colour of its flowers (which, 
appear to vary from green though yellow to purple) this is rather a 
variable species. One of its forms, barely distinguishable from the type, 
was named U.javana by Dunal who also gave a figure of it. Blume r 
who again figured U. javana, distinguished it from ZT. dulcis by the 
stellate (not simple) hairs ou the upper surface of its leaves. But, as 
Hook. fil. and Th. point out (Fl, Ind. 98), both kinds of hairs occur ou 
the same leaf. In all the specimens named U. javana, received from the 
Dutch Botanists, the leaves are much smaller and less denselly woolly 
below than those collected in the Malay Peninsula. Miquel suggests 
that U. aurita, Bl. is only a form of this. By neither figuring nor 
describing the fruit of what he understood as U. dulcis, aurita and 
javana t Blume neglected one of the best characters in this rather per- 
plexing genus ; and it may be that when fruit of the small-leaved Java 
species issued from the Herbarium of Buitenzorg shall be forthcoming, the 
reductions above made will have to be cancelled. 
4 Uvaru Louisiana, H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 100. A powerful clim- 
ber, often reaching 100 to 150 feet in length : young branches pubescent, 
ultimately glabrous and dark-coloured. Leaves sub -coriaceous, oblong 
or oblong-obianceolate, acute or very shortly acuminate, rarely obtuse, 
narrowed to the rounded or sub-cordate base ; both surfaces when very 
youufj; stellate f urfuraceous, speedily becoming glabrous except the puber- 
ulous midrib; the upper (when dry) pale green, the lower brown : main 
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