28 LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Nauclea. 
peduncles only 2-3 lines, for Blume's N. excelsa is a true Adinı with slender cuneate 
bracteoles amongst the flowers, and peduncles sometimes 2 in. 
N. orrentaris, Lamk. Ill. t. 153, f. 1; Blume Bid. 1066; Ham. in Trans, Linn. 
Soc. xv. 94, is altogether doubtful, 
7, UNCA RIA, Schreb. 
Climbing shrubs. eaves shortly petioled ; stipules entire or 2-fid. Flowers 
in globose axillary peduncled solitary or panicled heads; peduncles often head- 
less converted into hooked tendrils. Calyx-tube spindle-shaped; limb 5-lobed 
or -parted. Corolla-tube long, funnel-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, valvate; throat 
glabrous. Stamens 5, on the throat of the corolla, filaments short ; anthers with 
2 basal bristles. Ovary 2-celled; style slender, stigma capitate; ovules many, 
ascending on projecting placentas. Capsule elongate, septicidally 2-valved, 
many-seeded. Seeds imbricating upwards, testa winged above and below ; 
embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen.—DisrRim. About 30 species, tropical 
Asiatic, except 1 African and 1 American.—The Gambier of commerce is the 
produce of U. Gambier. 
* Calyx-limb long funnel- or bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate, corolla hirsute or 
villous. 
l. U. sclerophylla, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 520; branches robust obtusely 
4-angled pubescent or villous, leaves short-petioled large ovate suborbicular or 
oblong rigid pubescent beneath shining and reticulate above, peduncles all 
axillary bracteate above the middle, heads very large, flowers pedicelled, corollas 
villous. U, sclerophylla, insignis, ferruginea, and pedicellata, DC. Prodr. iv. 
347, 948. U. speciosa, Wall. Cat. 6106. U. ferruginea, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 69. 
Nauclea sclerophylla, Hunter in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 223. U. pedicellata, Ai. 
. Bed. 1012. 
Penance, Hunter, Ze MALAY PENINSULA, common from Pegu and Mergui to 
Malacca, Wallich, &.—Disrrm. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 
Very large and stout. Leaves 5-6 by 34—4 in., base rounded or cordate, rusty- 
pubescent beneath with strong transverse nerves between the 8 pairs of stout principal 
ones; petiole 1-1 in.; stipules hairy, rounded, 2-fid. Peduncle very stout, 2-4 in.; 
bracts 6in a whorl, 4 in, long. Heads 4 in. diam, ` calyx tomentose, limb campanulhte, 
lobes triangular acute ; corolla 1 in., silky or densely villous all over. Capsules 1-13 
in. longer than their pedicels, very variable.—Stems shaggy with long hairs in a 
specimen from Penang (Maingay), with capsules shorter and more turgid, and leawes 
ovate very hairy beneath. The corollas vary from densely shaggy with spreading 
fulvous hairs, to silkily shaggy with appressed hairs. 
2. U. pedicellata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 520; Ed. Wall. $ Carey, ii. 12 
branches robust 4-angled, leaves short-petioled oblong ovate-oblong or ellipt& 
shining above puberulous beneath rigid, peduncles axillary and in termin 
anicles bracteate about the middle, flowers pedicelled, corolla 3-4 in. wi 
m silky hairs. U. sclerophylla, Wall. Cat. 6105. U. ferruginea, DC. Prod. 
iv. 348. U. Hallii, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch, Bot. 165, t. 33. Nauclea ferru- 
ginea, Bl. Bijd. 1015. 
Penana and Gusoaponr, Wallich, ée, MarAcca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 2755), 
Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 826).—Disrri. Java, Borneo. 
Closely allied to U. sclerophylla, but smaller in all its parts, with more oblong 
leaves not so reticulate above and only minutely pubescent beneath ; heads nearly as 
large, but flowers smaller and capsules much shorter and more turgid (as in on 
specimen of sclerophylla). | 
