Friesodielsia fornicata
(Roxb.) D. Das in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 43 & 93. 1963.
Uvaria fomicata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 662. 1832. Oxymitra fomicata (Roxb.) Hook. f.
&
Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 71. 1872.
Asm.: Meta-bolol-bill.
Woody climbing shrubs; young branches brown tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at base, acuminate at apex, 10 - 18 x 3 - 7 cm, glabrous and glaucous above, hoary pubescent beneath; petioles 5 - 7 mm long. Flowers extra-axillary, solitary; pedicels 6 - 10 mm long, brown tomentose, bracteate at middle. Sepals connate at base, ovate-lanceolate, 5 - 10 x 4 - 5 mm, 5-nerved, densely pubescent on the midrib, reddish outside. Petals greenish to pale yellow; outer larger than the inner, oblong-lanceolate, 2 - 4 x 0.7 cm, tomentose, with prominent midrib; inner ones ovate, acute, connivent, connate at base, 6 - 8 x 3 - 4 mm slightly pubescent outside. Stamens many, linear, ca 1 mm long, truncate; connectives round, Oat. Carpels few, oblong, ca 1.5 mm long, strigose; style glabrous, curved; stigmas subcapitate. Ripe carpels ca 10, oblong, apiculate, ca 2 cm long, verrucose, pubescent at base and apex, coppery puberulous; stalks very short, stout, pubescent. Seed 1.
Fl. May - July; Fr. Oct. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indo-China.
Woody climbing shrubs; young branches brown tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at base, acuminate at apex, 10 - 18 x 3 - 7 cm, glabrous and glaucous above, hoary pubescent beneath; petioles 5 - 7 mm long. Flowers extra-axillary, solitary; pedicels 6 - 10 mm long, brown tomentose, bracteate at middle. Sepals connate at base, ovate-lanceolate, 5 - 10 x 4 - 5 mm, 5-nerved, densely pubescent on the midrib, reddish outside. Petals greenish to pale yellow; outer larger than the inner, oblong-lanceolate, 2 - 4 x 0.7 cm, tomentose, with prominent midrib; inner ones ovate, acute, connivent, connate at base, 6 - 8 x 3 - 4 mm slightly pubescent outside. Stamens many, linear, ca 1 mm long, truncate; connectives round, Oat. Carpels few, oblong, ca 1.5 mm long, strigose; style glabrous, curved; stigmas subcapitate. Ripe carpels ca 10, oblong, apiculate, ca 2 cm long, verrucose, pubescent at base and apex, coppery puberulous; stalks very short, stout, pubescent. Seed 1.
Fl. May - July; Fr. Oct. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indo-China.
