“668 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Unona. 
axillary, many-flowered. Calyx minute. Petals unequal, 
the inner three'cuneiform. Berries sub-sessile, one-seeded. 
A native of the Moluccas.) é 
UNONA. Schreb. gen. n. 947. 
GEN: CHAR. Calyx three-leaved. . Corol three, four, 
or six-petalled. Germs many, one-celled, few-seeded ; 
attachment interior. Berries. many, necklace-shaped. 
oe erect, and amply furnished with a perisperm. 
LU. longiftora. ‘R. 
Leaves linear-oblong. Flowers from two to threexietlile 
led, _of great length and pendulous. Joints of the, bees 
few and linear oblong. 
-Kudlla-kura_the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
indigenous ; grows to the size of a large shrub or small 
bushy tree, flowers in April and May, and the seed ripens 
about the close of the rains. Young shoots quite smooth, 
round, and flexuous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, short- 
petioled, linear-oblong, entire, smooth on both sides, and 
particularly glaucous underneath, from six to twelve in- 
ches long, and from two to four broad. “Peduncles ax- 
illary, Solitary, from three to ten inches long, filiform, 
smooth, one-flowered. Flowers uncommonly long, pen-— 
dulous';' yellow on the outside, bright” orange on the 
inside. Calyx thtee-léaved ; leaflets ‘reuifurm, cordate, | 
acuminate, very small and hairy. Petals two, rarely three, — 
ensiform, thick and fleshy, from six to eight inches long, — 
with the sides smooth, yellow on the inside, orange with-— 
out: Stamina numerous, glandular-headed, forming a he- 
mispheric ball round the germs. Germs from ten to twenty, — 
sessile, clayaté, very hairy, one-celled; ovula a few, im-) 
bricated upwards, and vertically attached to the inner 
margin of the styles, ‘short.  Stigmas: large, recurved. — 
Berries several, , ie i ike “i en Coren, ts £2 
