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In all tho provinces. Dietrib : Malayan Archipelago, S. China, 
Phillipines. 
Var. tuberculata ; frniis prominently tnberculate. 
Perak ; King's Collector, Nob. 960, 4786. 
A plant collected in the island of Bangka, closely resembling this 
in leaves, bat with target flowers with yellow petals, has been described 
by Messrs. Teysmann and Binnendyk under the name of U.fiava (Nat. 
Tijds. Ned. Ind. XXIX, 419). It hns also been figured by Miquel 
(Ann. Hub. Lngd. Bat. IT, 6, t, 1). I fear it iB merely a form of U. 
purpurea ; but not having seen fruiting specimens, I hesitate to reduce 
it here. 
7. Uvaria nitisuTA, Jack Mai. Misc. (Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 87.) 
A sarmentoso shrub but often climbing to the length of from 15 to 50 
feet: young branches and petioles with numerous rather stiff reddish- 
brown hairs. Leaves thiuly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic- 
oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, acute or sub-acute, tho base rounded or 
minutely cordate ; npper surface with scattered suh-adpressed, stifF, 
mostly simple hairs, the midrib toniontose ; lower surface with more 
numerous stellate and simple hairs: main nerves 9 to 14 pairs, spread- 
ing, depressed on the upper surface (when dry) but prominent on the 
lower ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 2'25 to 3 25 in., petiole '2 in. Peduncles 
1 to 2 in. long, lateral or terminal, not axillary, 1- rai'ely 2- flowered ; 
flowers 1"25 to 1'5 in. in diara. ; bract solitary (rarely 2 or 3), lanceolate, 
deciduons: buds ovoid-globose, stiffly hairy. Sepals membranous, broad- 
ly ovate, acute, connate, piloso outside, reflexed. Petals red, lnrgerthan 
the sepals, broadly ovate, acute; outside tomentoso with stiff hairs inter- 
mixed, inside sub-glabrous ; anthers '15 in. long, sub-sessile, the connec- 
tive at tho apex often slightly produced and obtuse. Ovaries 4-angled, 
truncate, rufous-tomentose, shorter than tho anthers. Ripe carpels 
numerous, stalked, cylindrie, blunt, 1*5 to 2 in. long, covered (as arc tho 
stalks and torus) with dense darkly ferruginous tomentum mixed with 
stiff hairs : stalks 1 to 125 in. long : torus hemispheric : seeds numer- 
ous, ovoid, plano-convex. Blume Fl. Javae, Anon. 22, t. 5 ; Wall. Cat. 
6458 (excl. 0.); Hook, fil and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 99; Hook fit. Fl. Br. 
Ind, I, 48 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 24 ; Ann. Hub. Lugd. Bat. II, 8 ; 
Scheff. in Nat. Tijdsch. XXXI, 2 ; Zoll. in Linnaea XXIX, 304 ; Kurz 
Flora Burm. I, 28; Scheff. Observ. Phyt. I, 2. U. trichornalla, Bl. Fl. 
Jav. Anon. 42, t. 18. 17. velutina, Blnme (not of Roxb.) Bijdr. 13. U. 
pilosa, Roxb. FL Ind. II, 665. 
In all the provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago and Burmah. 
There is somo difference amougst individuals as to the breadth of 
the leaves, and on ono of the forms with comparatively short but, broad 
lea v us lilume founded his species U. trichomaUa. 
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