UnONA DISCOLOR. (Yahl.) A small tree or shrub, leaves oblong or lanceolate, rounded at the base or cordate rarely 
J acute, acute or acuminated at the apex, glabrous and shining above, glaucous beneath and sometimes sparingly pubescent, 2-8 inch 
■ long 1-24 broad, (petioles scarcely £ inch), peduncles slender, 1-2 inches long axillary or above the axils, bearing a large oblong or lanceo¬ 
late bract below the middle, flowers solitary, sepals scarcely joined at the base membranaceous glandularly dotted, serioeo-pubescent or 
Bimbglabrous, ovato-lanceolate acute about § an iuch long, petals finally 2 inches long and more, sericeous or subglabrous lanceolate from 
Wm broad base, the interior ones a little shorter and narrower, stamens oblong, anther cells unequal, interior ones’ shorter, conneotivum 
r oval produced beyond the anther, torus depressed somewhat excavated at the middle, ovaries 5-6 ovuled, fruit bearing peduncle some¬ 
times thickened and the torous thickened and globose, carpels numerous monoliforoi, articulations 1-6. IF. A. prod, p, 9. Hook. <L 
Thom . Fk Ind. p. 132; Roxb. FI. Ind. U. 669 ; U. chinensis, D. C. prod. 1-90. U. uudulata. Wall. PI. As. liar. iii. t. 2 65 ; U. 
1 Lessertiana, D.G. prod. 1-90. 
Orissa, Carnatic, Concan, (specimen figured), Ceylon—Birmah and Chittagong, Sikkim and Malay Peninsula. 
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UNONA PANNOSA. (Dalz). A small tree, young branches pubescent, leave® ovato-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 2J-4- 
inches long, |-1|- broad, (petioles 2 lines long) glabrous above, sparingly pubescent beneath at length glabrous, flowers of * dirty white 
color, axillary subsessile, sepals villous on the outside, ovate acute 3 liu. long, petals oblongo-Iauceolaco villous (like wooly cloth), 1-2 
inches long, unquiculate at the base, the inner 3 slightly narrower all nearly equal in length, or the outer considerably longer, stamens 
abort euneate, conneetivum capitate subtruneate, torus elevated, convex covered with tufta of dense hairs, ovaries 8-12 densely strigose 
\ crowned with a short style, stigma capitate, ovules 2-3, carpels 5 6 oval obtuse very short pedioelled § of an. inch long, seed 1-3 large, 
testa shining smooth. Dalz. in Hook. Kew Misc. iii. 207 ; TJvaria mollis. Wall. Cat. 6475. 
j Common in moist forests on the western side of the Presidency up to an elevation of about 3,500 feet. The specimen figured 
r« from thq Anamallays. 
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POLYALTHIA COFFEOIDES. (Thw. MSS.) A good sized tree, young parts minutely puberulous, leaves lanceolate or 
■itoiJgo-Iauceolale glabrous on both sides shining above, (veins very prominent beneath) acute or rounded at the base, gradually attenu¬ 
ated into an obtuse point at the apex, margins slightly undulate, 4-10 inches long 1} to 3 broad, petiole J inch long, pedicels several 
i together from woody tubercles about the trunk and larger branches or solitary or twin in the axils of the fallen leaves cn the young 
/branches, 1 to l£ inch long, minutely adpreseo-pubernlous, articulated at the base, and furnished with 2-3 deciduous squarateform 
bracts, sepals nearly round, petals coriaceous glabrous or slightly hairy, lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the apex, about an inch long, 
inner ones rather larger, carpels puberulous about 1 inch long ovoid attenuated at both ends on pedicels about 1 inch long, seed oblong! 
7 lines long 5 lines broad, flowers cream-colored. FI. Ind. p. 141. 
j| Common in moist forests from 1 to 3,500 feet elevation on the western side of the Presidency and in Ceylon. In the Wynaad 
the Kurambars make a sort of rope from the bark which has a strong smell of ammonia when fresh. I have met with it in flower at all 
reasons. The specimen figured is from the Anamallays. 
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POLYALTHIA FRAGRANS. (Dalz.) A large tree, leaves ovate, oblong or oblongo-lauceolote, rounded at the base 
'generally oblique ; very prominently veined especially beneath, glabrous above, slightly pubescent on the costa and veins beneath 4V9 
inches long, 2-5 inches broad, petioles about J inch tong, peduncles about an inch long, from the axils of the folleu leaves, pedicels filiform , 
f X inch long (and as are the calyx and petals) hoary-puberulous, famished with a half cup-sliaped bract about the middle, sepals small 
Irotundate, petals 1-1J inch long narrow linear attenuated at the apes, snb-equal; torus dilated depresso globose, carpels 10-20 oblique- 
; ovoid 1-14 inch long, hoary puberulous long pedicelled. Dalz. in Hook. Kew Misc. iii. 208; Hook, and Thom. FI. Ind. p. 142. 
K In the moist forests of the Anamallays 2,500 feet elevation (specimen figured), also in Malabar and the Concan. 
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POLYALTHIA PERSICiEFOLIA, (H. f. et T.) Shrubby, branches glabrous, younger parts fusco-pubescent, leaves lanceo¬ 
late with a long Blender aoumination, oblique at the base, sparingly pubernlous, 2-4 inches long. §—1J broad (petioles 1 lino long) coria¬ 
ceous, pale tihneath ; peduncles a little above the axils, scarcely 1 line long, pedicels fascicled 2-3, 1—£ iuch long, fusco pube- 
1 scent; flowers small, sepals ovate acute strigoso tomentose, petals thickly coriaceous strigoso pubescent, exterior ones twice as large as . 
the sepals, ovate or rotundate acuminated, interior ones nearly twice the size of the exterior, \ inch long, rotundate, ovaries densely 
Btrigose, torus in fruit small, carpels globose, 10 or more on short pedicels, 1-2 lines long, the size of a pea, puberulous, or subglabrous. 
Hook, et Thom. Ft Ind. p. 140. 
j Tinnevelly and Travancore forests at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Attraymallay and Paupanassum hills,—Ceylon 
; (specimen figured.) 
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