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Seeds numerous in two rows, horizontal, oval, compressed, pale brown, 
shining 1 . 
Pabang: Ridley. Perak i Scortechini. 
10, Uvajjia paociovulata, H. f. and T. in Hoot. fil. FL Br. Ind, 
I, 51. A sub-scandent shrub .* young branches densely stellate rufous- 
totnentose. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, narrowly elliptic or eRiptic-oblong, 
obtuse or obtusely acuminate, the base rounded or cordate ; upper surface 
(in adult leaves) shining, quite glabrous ; the lower dull, sparsely pubes- 
cent; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, sub-ascending, curving, prominent 
beneath and impressed above : length of blade 2" 5 to 6 in., breadth 125 
to 3 in., petiole "2 iu. llacemes terminal, umbellate, few-flowored, 1*5 to 
2'5 in, long, scurfily rufous-tomeutose ; bracts numerous and imbricate 
towards the apex, rotund to ovate, tomcntose : buds ovoid-globose : 
flowers 15 in. in diam. Sepals small, (3 in. long) orbicular, sub-acute, 
connate to the middle and densely tomeutose outside, densely and minute- 
ly puberulous inside. Petals very much larger than the sepals, sub- 
connivont, coriaceous, ovate-rotund, obtuse, the inner 3 narrower; all 
Bcaly-tomentose externally, densely and minutely pubescent and veined 
internally; anthers sub-sessile, cuneate ; connective slightly produced at 
the apex, truncate ; ovaries longer than the stamens, flattened, stnllnte- 
hairy ; stigma truncate, ovules 1 to 3. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, 
Bub-globose, mucronate, densely and minutely fulvous- tomentoso, 35 to 
■5 in. in diam., 1- to 2-seeded ; stalk "5 to "75 in., rather slender. Seeds 
compressed, shining. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 104. Penang i Curtis, No. 
825 : at elevations of 500 to 600 feet. 
11. Uvaria Scortechinu, King n. sp. A sarmentosc, flexuose 
shrub ; young branches and petioles densely covered with rusty, floccose, 
rufous tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-rotund, obtuse, 
very slightly or not at all narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate 
base r upper surface shining, glabrescent or glabrous, the deeply impressed 
midrib and nerves tomentose, transverse veins depressed when dry ; 
undor surface minutely and softly rufous, pubescent especially on tho 
midrib nerves and reticulations which are all bold and prominent : main 
norves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading below, sub-ascending above, forming 
double arches within the edge ; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 2*5 
to 4 in., petiole *2 to *4 in. Flowers 1*5 in. in diara., either terminal in 
umbels of 2 or 3, or in many- flowered lateral panicles 4 in. in longfch : 
peduncles "5 to -75 in. long ; bracts numerous, but chiefly towards the 
apices of the peduncles, ovate -orbicular, covered with short rufous 
flocculent tomentum as are the branches and axes of the panicles. 
Sepals fleshy, triangular, sub-acute, connate iu the lower third, concave, 
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