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UNCARIA PILOSA. Tab. 170. 
Uncaria pilosa, Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 2. p. 130. 
Habitat in montibus Napaliæ et Kamaon, florens mensibus Aprilis et Maii. In sylvis Chittagong, Row). 
Having given an account of this large shrub in Roxburgh’s work, I shall confine myself hiere to a few remarks on 
the structure of the fruit, which has been subsequently sent to me from Kamaon by Robert Blinkworth. . Capsules 
very numerous, densely collected into a large globular head, which measures from 2 to 23 inches in diameter ; they 
are ovate-clavate, short-pedicelled, hairy and ribbed, about 5 lines long, and crowned with the narrow-linear, longish 
lacini: of the calyx. Seeds very small, round-ovate, smooth, terminated. at each end by long membranous linear 
wings, the lower one of which is bifid. 
Plate CLXX. Fig. 1. Peduncle and bracts, with a head of unexpanded flowers. — 2.3. Flower. 4. The same, opened. 
CONVOLVULUS WIGHTII. Tab. 171. 
Frurex volubilis, mollitér ferrugineo-pilosissimus ; foliis rotundato-cordatis, acutis, trilobis, suprà sericeo-villosis, 
subtüs niveo-lanuginosis, nervis reticulatis, discoloribus; floribus subcapitatis, longé pedunculatis, axillaribus ; foliolis 
calycinis bracteisque elongato-lanceolatis, pilosis. 
Convoleulus lanuginosus, Herb. Heynean. (haud Vahlii.) m 
Incolit montes Nilghiry dictas, ubi detexerunt domini Wight et Noton. 
FRUTEX satls magnus, volubilis, ramosus, dens? obsitus pilis patentibus, ferrugineis, mollibus; omnes partes recentes ferrugineò villo- 
sissimæ. Forra alterna, subdistantia, interstitiis seepiús breviora, patentia, subrotundo-cordata, 3- vel obsolete 5-loba, summa nunc 
ferè integra, 3—6-pollicaria, suprà saturate? viridia, rugosula, pilis densis, sericeis, ferrugineis, decumbentibus obsita ; subtüs niveo-lanu- 
ginosa, subarachnoidea, 7-nervia, reticulata, nervis nudiusculis, viridibus; lobi acuti, vix repando-crenulati, intermedius ovatus, maximus; 
folia novella densissimè vestita, ferd alba. PerioLus cylindricus, longitudine circiter folii, valdè pilosus. SrrPuLz nulle.. PEDUNCULUS 
axillaris, solitarius, longitudine varius, petiolum szepiüs bis terve, superans, apice gerens fasciculum subcapitatum, involucrato-bracteatum 
florum 3—7 magnorum, ex roseo purpurascentium, brevè pedicellatorum. BRACTEA longæ, lineari-lanceolatæ, acuminatæ, pilo- 
sissimæ; duse involucriformes, patentes, pollicares infra capitulum, tresque infra singulum calycem, cujus foliolis inzequalibus, villo- 
sissimis simillimæ. Corotta infundibuliformis, sesquipollicaris, extüs villosa; limbus patens, ferd integerrimus, tubo longior. 
FILAMENTA inæqualia, ciliata, basi dilatata ; anthere lineares, albae. | Ovarium circumdatum disco carnoso, undulato ; stylus filiformis ; 
stigma constans lobis 2 globosis, papillosis, rufuscentibus. CAPSULA magnitudine pisi majoris, globosa, levis, 2-locularis, 4-sperma. 
—MSS. Wightii. 
This elegant and curious shrub was introduced in 1826 into the Calcutta Garden, from the Nilghiry, by Dr. Wight, 
to whom I am indebted for the detailed description given above. “The plant, both in its wild and cultivated state, is 
abundantly covered with soft and spreading long hairs: the leaves are large, very soft and villous, somewhat rugose 
above ; underneath they are covered with a white and dense tomentum, except along the reticulated nerves, which are 
almost naked, and therefore retain their green colour; they resemble in some degree the leaves of several of the Indian 
Rubi. The flowers are large, of a purplish'rose-colour, a few collected in long-peduncled, involucred, axillary heads. 
Dr. Wight has lately come back to this country on a temporary visit of a few years, having brought with him an 
herbarium, collected by himself in various parts of the peninsula of India, amounting to between 3000 and 4000 species, 
and comprising nearly 100,000 beautifully preserved specimens. “This stupendous herbarium he intends distributing 
among the principal public and private collections throughout Europe, confiding at the same time the publication 
of the several families to a number of distinguished botanists, in the manner adopted by the Honourable East India 
Company with respect to their collections. It would be altogether needless to offer the slightest comment on an 
act of such unparalleled generosity and disinterestedness on the part of a private individual ; but I beg to be allowed 
to express the sincere gratification which I feel in simply announcing the intention of my highly esteemed friend 
and fellow-labourer, wishing him health and strength both to accomplish that object, and to publish his valuable 
botanical researches. 
Plate CLXXI. Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. The same, dissected. 3. Corolla. 
