Btigma thick, fmb-cnpitatc, snh-trnnnate ; ovules numerous, in two rows. 
JUpe carpels sub -globular,, slightly obovoid, blunt at each end, densely 
and minutely tomentose, l'l in. long and '9 in. in diam. Seeds about 
14 in two rows, horizontal, half-oval, flat, smooth, brown. Mitrephora ex~ 
celsa, H. f, and T. Fl. Ind. 114 : Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. I, 77 ; Miq. Fl. 1 
Ind. Bat, I, Pt. 2, 31. 
Penaug: Wal I ich, Curtis. Perak: King's Collector. Scorteohini. 
Malacca: Main gay (Kew Distrib.), No. 36 in part. 
This plant was originally issued as a Uttaria by WalHch. His 
specimens of it, however, bore no mature flowers ; and Sir Joseph Hooker 
and Dr. Thomson referred them doubtfully to Mitrephora. The excellent 
specimens recently collected by Mr. Curtis and by the Calcutta Garden 
Collector show the petals to be sub-equal and concave, imbricate at the 
apex only, the sepals being quite valvate. This of course is not the 
tj'pical flower of a Uvaria, in which the petals are much imbricate. Bnt 
the stamens, ovaries and ripe fruit are more those of Uvaria than of any 
other genus. 
15. Uvaria astrosttcta, Miq Fl. Tnd. Bat, Snppl. 370. A climber? 
Young branches dcckluonsly rufous-stcllate-tomentose with simple hairs 
intermixed, ultimately glabrous striate and dark-colon red. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sometimes slightly oblanccolate, acuminate, 
the base rounded or minutely cordate ; upper surface minutely scaberul- 
ous, the midrib and sometimes the nerves softly rufous-pubescent ; 
lower surface at first densely and softly tomentose, ultimately sparsely 
stellate-pubescent, snb-scaberulous ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spread- 
ing, rather prominent on the lower surface : length of blade 4 to 6 in,, 
breadth 15 to 18 in., petiole '2 in. Peduncles extra-axillary, very short 
(only '3 in.), 2-to 3-fiowered, rnfous-stellate-tomentose aB are the 2 or 
3 Hub-rotund bracts; buds sub-globular; flowers '6 in. in diam. Sepals 
reniform, sub-acute, united half way. Petals nearly three times as long 
as the sepals, sub-coriaceous, broadly oval, slightly obovato, sub-acute, 
minutely pubescent. Anthers sub-sessile, the connective produced 
beyond the apices, flattened and truncate, 3 outer anthers barren : torus 
hispidalons. Fruit unknown ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd, Bat. II. 8. 
Perak; Scortechini, No. 121. Distrib. E. Sumatra. 
The Perak specimens of this plant agree perfectly with those from 
Sumatra on which the species was founded. It is allied to U. keterocarpa 
Bl , to U. ntfa 01*, and also to 27. timoriensis. I have never Been the 
fmit, and Miquel's entire description of it consists of the two words 
*' carpella velutiua." 
Doubtful Species. 
16. Uyaria suu-repanda, Wall. Cat. 6483. A climber: young 
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