Uncaria, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 517 
UNCARIA. Schreb. gen. N. 311. 
Flowers aggregate, on a globular receptacle. Calyx, 
common simple, remote; proper five-parted, Corollets fun- 
nel-shaped. Germ inferior, two-celled ; cells many-seeded ; 
attachment interior. Capsules pedicelled, two-celled, parti- 
tions parallel. Seeds many, imbricated, membrane-winged. 
Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 
Our East India plants belonging to this genus are very 
permanent, ciriferous ramblers; with opposite, stipulate leaves, 
Flowers globular, terminal, or axillary, and for the most 
part the capsules pedicelled, and in that state like globu- 
lar umbellets which (with the habit,) separate them from 
Nauclea, 
1. U. Gambit, Hunter in Linn, Transact, ix, wees tab, 22, 
Fleming in Asiat, Res. xi, 187, 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles ‘xillady, solitary. 
Capsules clavate, pedicelled, 
 Funis pacotuagisecitoling Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 63. t. 34, 
tt 2 and 3. 
A: stout, scandent shrub, a native of Pulo Pinang, Suma- 
tra;-Malacca, &e. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from antiaianasil melie 
lanceolate, entire, acute; smooth on both sides; about four 
inches long, and two broad, Stipules sous uniting the 
upper margin of the base of the petioles, caducous, Tendrils. 
axillary, solitary, or in opposite pairs, simple, recurved, hook-: 
ed. Pedunceles axillary, solitary, about the middle jointed 
and bracted, supporting a single globular head, of beautiful, 
green and pink, small aggregate corollets. Bractes, about 
the middle of the peduncle, a three or four-cleft annular peri- 
anth-like cup. Perianth ; common, no other than the just. 
mentioned bracte ; proper sericeous on the outside with a five- 
cleft border. Corollets ; tube filiform ; border of five obtuse: 
divisions, villous on the outside, and haityel in the centre of: 
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