100 
to 1*5 in. long; the inner smaller, glabrescent or glabrous, ennenve at 
the base. Stamens numerous, the connective obliquely triangular at 
the apex j the anther-cells very narrow, lateral. Ovaries obovoid, oblique, 
carved, densely sericeous, 4- to 6-ovttled ; style glabrous. "Ripe carpels 
sessile, shortly stalked, sub-globose, narrowed to the base ; densely and 
softly rufous- tomentose, about *75 in. in diam. when ripe ; seeds about 4. 
JMiq. PI. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 35; Hook. fil. ft Br. Ind. I, 79. Uvaria 
tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 64.54. 
Penang: Wallich, Curtis. Singapore ; Wallich. Pangkore : Curtis. 
Pennng; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. 
At once distinguished by its large flowers, lanate leaves and sessile, 
or shortly stalked, rufous- tomentose fruit. 
10. Melodorum Matngati, Hook, fil. and Thorns. PI. Br. Tnd. T, SO. 
A climber t young branches pubescent, dark-coloured. Leaves coriace- 
ous, reddish-brown when dry, broadly elliptic or oblong, rounded at both 
ends, the tip sometimes minutely apiotilafc ; upper surface glabmns 
except the puberulous midrib ; lower glancous and finely pubescent ; 
main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent and dark- 
coloured beneath ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 to 235 in. ; petiole 6 
in. Fl-owers P25 to 15 in. long, solitary, axillary ; buds swollen at the 
base, narrowed and triquetrous above • pedicels '25 to '5 in., stout ; 
bractcoles several, small. Sepals orbicular, sub-acute, quite connate into 
a disk, '35 in. in diam. Petals leathery ; the outer oblong-lanceolate, 
with broad base, flat but keeled down the middle inside, outside minutely 
rufous-kmieutose, inside hoary-pubescent ; inner very small, triangnlnr- 
ovate, glabrous. Stamens numei-ous, small, with abroad ronnded apical 
process, convex. Ovaries about 6, sericeous on one side ; stigma sub- 
sessile. Ripe carpels oblong:, tapering to each enrl, the apex shortly 
beaked, rusty- puberulous ; the pericarp thick, 1'5 to 2 in. long and *75 
in. in diam. ; stalks '5 in. long, stout. Seeds many, in horizontal rows, 
*5 in. long testa shining, not margined. 
Penang; Maingay (Kew Distrib.,) No. LOS, Curtis. No. 1046. Pornk : 
Wray, 1112. 
11. Melohordm prismatictjm, Hook. fil. and Thorns. PI, Br. Tnd. 
121. A large creeper ; young branches glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong, eliiptic-oblong, rarely obovate-obloug, abruptly and 
shortly acuminate ; the base broad, rounded : upper surface glabrous 
except the minutely puberulous midrib; lower surface glaucous, reticu- 
late, finely pubescent especially on the midrib ; main nerves 12 to 18 
pairs, spreading, faint especially near the tip, the secondary nerves pro- 
minent ; length 4'5 to 8"5 in., breadth 2 3 to 3'3 in., petiole »S to "7 in. 
Flowers V5 to 2 in. long, axillary, solitary; pedicels "3 to 6 in. long, 
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