34 vi. anon ace as. [Uvarta. 
4-seeded. Seeds plano-convex. Hub. Forests up to about 2500 ft. 
altitude. Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Thaiping Hills at the lea 
Gardens; Lankawi islands, Terutau (Haniff); Penang, Telok bahang 
and Balik Pulau (Curtis). 
(12) U. excelsa Wall Cat. 6477; King, Journ . .Is. Soc. Bcng. 
lx. 22; Ann. Bot. Gard Calc. l.c. 30, pi. 26. Mitrephora excelsa 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 79. 
A liane 30 to 100 ft. long; young parts stellate-pubescent, soon 
glabrous. Leaves coriaceous oblanceolate obovate-oblong to ellip¬ 
tic acuminate, base minutely cordate, above glabrous except the 
puberulous midrib, beneath tomentose; nerves 10 pairs; 3*5 to 
7-5 in. long, i*5 to 4 in. wide; petioles *3 to *5 in. long, pubescent. 
Flowers white, *35 to *4 in. across, axillary or in contracted cymes, 
below the leaves; pedicels *2 in. long, tomentose. Bracts large 
close to flower. Sepals semi-orbicular acute valvate, tomentose 
outside. Petals imbricate only at tips thick concave pubescent 
on both faces, outer broadly ovate acute, little larger than the sepals, 
inner about as large as the sepals. Anthers numerous, appendages 
thick sub-quadrate pubescent. Carpels sub-globular obovoid blunt 
tomentose, i*i in. long, -9 in. wide. Seeds 14 in 2 rows, flat, half- 
oval. Hah. Forests. Perak; Goping and Larut (Kunstler). 
Malacca; Selangor. Penang (Wallich, Curtis). Distnb. Cochin- 
China. 
Aberrant in the petals being imbricate at the tips only. 
(13) U. astrosticta Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Supp. 370; Ann. Mas. 
Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 8; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 23; Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 3A. 
Young branches deciduously stellate-tomentose with hairs 
intermixed. Leaves coriaceous oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base 
rounded above scaberulous, nerves sometimes pubescent, beneath 
tomentose,-later stellate pubescent; nerves 12 to 16 pairs, 4 to 
6 in. long, 1*5 to i-8 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. Peduncle extra- 
axillary, ‘3 in. long, 2- to 3“fl° wer 6d, stellate-tomentose with 2 or 3 
sub-rounded bracts. Flowers - 6 in. across. Sepals reniform sub¬ 
acute united half-way. Petals nearly 3 times as long, broadly 
oval slightly obovate sub-acute pubescent. Anthers 3 outer ones 
barren, appendages flat, truncate. Torus hairy. Hab. Very rare. 
Perak (Scort echini). Dislrib. Sumatra. 
(14) U. sub-repanda Wall. Cat. 6483; Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 50; 
King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 23; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 32, pi. 117. 
Tree. Young parts pubescent, branches very slender. Leaves 
thin obovate-oblong acute, base round cordate, midrib above 
pubescent, otherwise glabrous; nerves 10 to 14 pairs, fine elevate 
beneath; 5 to 7-5 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -15 to *25 in. 
long, scaly. Flowers axillary stellate-tomentose -5 in. across; 
pedicel 75 in. long. Bracts sub-orbicular. Sepals broad and short. 
