17 
and Th. Fl. Ind. 97 ; Hook. 61. Wl Br. Tnd. I, 49 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 1 
Pt. 2, p. 23 ; Thwaites En urn. P6. Ceyl. 6 ; Kurz Fl. Bur in. 1, p. 28 ; Bed- 
dome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 81. Z7. rufescens, DC. Mem. Anon. 26. U, car- 
data, Wall. Cat. 6486. Ouatteria cordata, Dunal Anon. 129 t. 30; DC. 
Prod. I, 93. 
Silhet, Chittagong, Burmah, Malayan Poninsula, Java, Ceylon. 
One of the most widely distributed species of the genus and 
closely allied to U. ovalijolia, Bl. I reduce to this species the JJvaria 
cordata of Wall. Cat., No. 6480 ; bat not without some hesitation, as 
both Miquel and Kurz referred it to U. ovalifolia, Bl. 
6. TJvaria. purpurea, Blume Bijdr. 11 : Fl. Jav. 13, t. 1 andt. 13 A. 
A sarmentose shrnb, often climbing to 20 or 30 feet : young parts softly 
stellate-rufouB-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves thickly membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, acute or 
acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cordate, shortly petiolate ; 
npper surface, when adult, shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the midrib 
and sometimes tho nerves tomentose ; under surface mther sparsely 
but softly stellate- tomentose ; main nerves 14 to 17 pairs, rather 
straight, prominent beneath, the lower spreading, the upper sub-erect ; 
length 4"5 to 9 or even 11 in., breadth 2'5 to 3 75 in. ; petiole '15 to 
'25 in. Peduncles L to 15 in. long, extra-axillary or terminal, usually 
1- sometimes 2-flosvored ; flowers 2 to 3 in. diain. ; bracts 2, large, un- 
equal, leafy ; buds turbinate. Sepals broadly triangular, sub-concave, 
membranous, fulvous-tomentose on the outer, glabrescent on the inner 
surface. Petals longer than tho sepals, coriaceous, oblong to obovate, 
obtuse, coriaceous, dark purple, tho inner 3 slightly smaller. Anthers 
sub-sessile, very numerous, equal, about "3 in. long; the connective much 
produced at the apex, rhomboid in the inner, compressed and oblique in 
tho outer anthers. Ovaries numerous, densely crowded, slightly shorter 
than the stamens, tomentose ; ovules numerous. Torus depressed-hemi- 
spheric, pubescent, pitted when ripe. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, ob- 
loug-cylindric, blunt at each end with 2, more or less obscure, ridges and 
grooves, minutely rufous-tomentose, sub- tubercu late, 1'5 to 2 in. long 
and about "5 in. in diam. ; stalks *5 to 1 in. long, rufous-tomentose. Seeds 
numerous, flat. Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 95 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 
Pt. 2, 22 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 6 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 47 ; 
Benth. Fl. Hong Kong, 9; Vidaly Soler, Revis. Fl. Filipinafi, 39; Scheffor 
Obs. Phyt. I, 4, 26, 65; Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. II, 1. U. grandijlora, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 6G5 ; Wall. PI. As. Rar. II t. 121 ; Wall. Cat. 6485, A. 
to I). and H. ; Wight and Aim. Prod. 9. U. platypetala % Champ, in Kew 
Journ. Bot. Ill, 257. U. rhodantha, Hancein Walp. Ann. II, 19. Unona 
graudillora, DC. Prod. I, 90. 
266 
