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Uvaria.\ 
A lofty climbing liane, forming a large mass on tree-tops; 
young branches densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, 
stiff, narrowly elliptic to oblong obtuse or bluntly acuminate, base 
round or cordate, above glabrous, below pubescent; nerves io to 
14 pairs; 2*5 to 6 in. long, 1*25 to 3 in. wide. Racemes terminal, 
umbellate, few-flowered, 1-5 to 2*5 in. long, tomentose. Bracts 
numerous imbricate, round or ovate tomentose. Flower 1-5 in. 
across. Sepals small, -3 in. long, orbicular connate half-way, 
tomentose outside, puberulous within. Petals much larger con- 
nivent ovate rounded blunt, inner 3 narrower, tomentose outside, 
pubescent inside. Anthers cuneate, appendages short truncate. 
Pistils longer stellate hairy; ovules 1 to 3. Carpels numerous, 
sub-globose mucronate tomentose, -35 to -5 in. through, stalk *5 to 
■75 in. long, slender. Seeds 1 or 2. Hab. In dense forests probably 
common, but difficult to get. Johor; Gunong Pulai. Malacca 
(Maingay). Penang, highlands (Curtis). 
(10) U. Scortechinii King, Journ. . 4 s. Soc. Beng. l.c. 20; Ann. 
Bot. Card. Calc. lx. 25, p. 17. 
Sarmentose, flexuous shrub; young branches and petioles densely 
rusfy-floccose. Leaves coriaceous elliptic to elliptic-round, blunt, 
base rounded, above glabrous except nerves, tomentose beneath; 
nerves and reticulations prominent, red-hairy; nerves 10 to 12 
pairs, doubly inarching within the edge, 4 to 7 in. long, 2*5 to 4 in. 
wide; petioles -2 to *4 in. long. Flowers 1-5 in. across in terminal 
umbels of 2- to 3- or many-flowered panicles, 4 in. long; peduncles 
■5 to 75 in. long. Bracts numerous, ovate-orbicular, covered like 
the branches of inflorescence with flocculent tomentum. Sepals 
fleshy triangular sub-acute, lower third connate pubescent. Petals 
1 in. long, connivent; outer 3 ovate-round, quite blunt, tomentose- 
pubescent on both sides, inner 3 obovate, clawed, pubescent out¬ 
side, glabrous inside except a broad pubescent band. Anthers 
sessile, appendages truncate, almost peltate. Pistils several with 
a few stellate hairs. Ovules 2 to 3. Hab. Very rare. Perak 
(Scortechini). 
(11) U. micrantha Hook. fil. and Thom. FI. hid. 103 ; Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. i. 51; King, Journ. ^ 4 $. Soc. Beng. l.c. 21; Ann. Bot. Gard. 
Calc. lx. 26, pi. 18. 
Large liane; young branches tomentose, adult glabrous, dark 
with pale warts. Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong-lanceolate, base 
rounded or slightly cuneate, glabrous except pubescent midrib; 
nerves very inconspicuous 12 to 15 pairs; 2*5 to 5-5 in. long, 
•8 to 1-4 in. wide; petioles *15 in. long. Peduncles terminal or 
axillary, very short, 2- to 4-flowered, tomentose. Bracts orbicular. 
Flowers -4 in. across, greenish yellow. Sepals round pubescent 
outside. Petals broadly ovate sub-obtuse minutely tomentose 
outside, pubescent inside. Anthers very pale rose. Carpels numer¬ 
ous, ovoid globose, round at each end stalked, glabrous, 2- to 
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