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cordate base ; upper surface glabrous, the midrib and sometimes the 
ncrvos coarsely puberulous ; under- surface reticulate, stellate-rufous- 
pubescent on the midrib and 18 to 22 pairs of spreading curving nerves ; 
length 5'5 to 9 in,, breadth 1*75 to 4 in. ; petiole '3 in., tubercular. 
Flowers small, in short terminal or axillary cymes, rarely solitary : 
pedicels '3 in. long, densely covered like the outside of the sepals with 
sub- deciduous coarse, rusty, stellate toinentum ; bracteole solitary, orbi- 
cular, ovato, close to the flower. Sepals valvate, orbicular, partly con- 
nate, glabrous inside. Petals imbricate, orbicular, fleshy, more or loss 
puberulous outside, glabrous within ; the inner rather smaller than tho 
outer but both under (in the young state) *25 in. in diam. Stamens 
numerous, narrowly elongate, the apex truncate more or less obliquely ; 
anther-cells lateral. Ovaries absent in the staminiferouB flower. Ripe 
carpels oblong, blunt (almost truncate) at each end, slightly tnber- 
culato and densely covered with loose, sub-deciduoas, rnsty-stellato 
tomentum ; pericarp rather thick. Seeds about 8 in 2 rows, plano-con- 
vex. 
South Andaman ; King's Collector, 
This has been collected only on two occasions, once with undeve- 
loped male flowers and once with immature fruit. The full size attainod 
by tho flowers is not known, and the measurements of sepals and petals 
above given are taken from buds. By its leaves and peculiar deciduous 
rusty stellate tomentum, the species is however readily recognisable. 
14. Uvaria excklsa, Wall. Cat. 6477. A creeper 30 to 100 feet 
long: young parts stellate-pubescent; the branchlots tawny-tomentose, 
speedily becoming glabrous dark-coloured and furrowed. Leaves cori- 
aceous, oblanceolate, obovato-oblong to elliptic, tho apex acuminate 
(sometimes very shortly), acute, rarely obtuse, slightly narrowed to the 
minutely cordate base : upper surface shining, glabrous except the 
puberulous depressed midrib ; lower surface minutely tawny-tomentose; 
main nerves 10 to 12 pairs spreading, slender; length 3'5 to 75 in., 
breadth 1*6 to 4 in. ; petiole 3 to *5 in. pubescent. Flowers white, '35 to 
•4 in. in diam., in contracted cymes from tho branches below tho leaves, 
or axillary; pedicels only about *2 in. long, rufous-tomeutoBc with a 
large bract close to the flower. Sepals semi-orbicular, sub-acute, val- 
vate, concave, spreading, tomentose outside, glabrous within. Petals in 
bud imbricate only at their apices, sub-equal, thick, concave, densely 
and minutely pubescent on both surfaces : the outer broadly ovato, 
acute, a little larger than tho sepals : inner petals ovate, about as large 
as tho sepals. Anthers numerous, narrow, the cells linear, lateral; the 
apical process of the connective thick, sub-quadrate, obliquely truncate, 
minutely pubescent. Ovuries narrow, elongate, grooved, pubescent; the 
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