Nauclea. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) | 27 
petiole +-} in.; stipules linear-oblong. Heads 24 in. diam. ; peduncles slender, 1-2 
be with 4 bracts below or above the middle. Flowers ochreous-purple ; style rather 
short. 
3. N. peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 609; leaves large elliptie or elliptic- 
oblong coriaceous obtusely acuminate, peduncles 3-nate very stout, corolla silky. 
G. Don Gen. Syst. iii, 469. 
Penane, Porter.—Distris. Sumatra. 
Branches very robust. Leaves 6-12 by 3-5 in., shining above, cordate or tapering 
into a very stout petiole 3-1 in.; nerves strong beneath. Peduncles 1-24 in., lateral 
spreading, central short or long. Heads 1} in. diam.; calyx-lobes long, slender, 
clavate, acuminate, very silky, longer than the tube of the glabrous corolla. 
** Stigma elongate acute, stipules concave sub-persistent. 
4. N. missionis, Wall. Cat. 6099; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute or 
obtuse membranous glabrous, peduncles short stout solitary, calyx and. corolla 
tomentose. JV. $ A. Prodr. 892; Arn. Pugill. Pl. Ind. Or. 90. N. oblongata, 
Mig. in Herb. Hohenack. 717. N. orientalis, Herb. Madr. N. elliptica, Dalz. A 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 118. 
Travancor, Rottler, Wight. MALABAR, Hohenacker. Concan, Stocks. 
Very similar to N. purpurea, but distinguished by the subsessile leaves of which 
the petioles are usually winged to tho base, and the elongate stigma, and the remark- 
able stipules. Leaves 4-7 by 14-2} in., shining above; petiole rarely j in.; nerves 
10-12 pair, slender; stipules forming an appressed cylindrie coriaceous sheath, more 
or less connate, sometimes half-way up, glabrous, obtuse, very persistent. Peduncles 
usually inclined, 3-1 in., with stipular sheathing bracts at the base, and 4 small bracts 
united below into a cup above the base, of which 2 are shorter than the others. Heads 
13 in. diam. ; calyx-lobes and corolla-lobes tomentose.—Of Dalzell’s N. elliptica there 
are authentic specimens, but in bud only. He describes the stigma as ‘round,’ but 
his specimens accord so entirely with Wight's, Rottler's, &c., in all other respects, 
that Í suspect some mistake. His plant should be searched for * near Sura, and the 
village of Hoolun, not far from Chorla Ghaut.’ 
5. N. Maingayi, Hook. f.; leaves broadly elliptic or elliptic-obovate 
coriaceous obtusely acuminate, nerves beneath pubescent, peduncles solitary 
vexy short, calyx and corolla-lobes tomentose. 
Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 823). 
Branches stout, glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., shining above, contracted into 
a,short petiole which is almost winged to the base; nerves 12-14 pair, strong, 
spreading; stipules $ in. long, forming an appressed cylindrie sheath, obtuse, 
coriaceous. Peduncle 4 in,, curved, with basal sheathing stipular bracts, and broad 
subpersistent ones under the head. Head 14 in. diam.—Very near to N. missionis, 
‘ith similar remarkable stipules, but the leaves are much broader, very coriaceous, 
ith more numerous more spreading strong nerves, which are pubescent beneath; the 
cts under the head appear to be very large and orbicular, but they are much 
ithered, and I have seen only 2 specimens.—A Bornean species (Beccari, 2. 681) is 
robably the same as this, but the heads are larger. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
NR. OVALIFOLIA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14; Fl. Ind. i. 076 ; Ed. Carey § Wall. ji. 124; 
‘leaves sessile oval and elliptic, flowers terminal solitary.'—' Forests of Silhet’ : 
called Shal by the natives.—Possibly Adina sessilifolia. Don refers it to Uncaria 
elliptica, which is not a Khasian plant. 
N. excELsa, Blume; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 66, from Pegu. This is certainly not 
Blume's plant, if Kurz is correct in describing it as having no bracteoles, and the 
