63. RTJBIAOE.E. 81 



HAB. Kosliun ; Ivankaw. 



Near N. sessilifolia ROXB. and N. reticulata H.W., hut differs from the 

 both by the obovate and shortly acute leaves. 



4. Vncar-ia SCHREB. 



Uncaria florida VIDAL ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 182. 

 HAB. Kotosho, Garambi. 

 DISTEIB. The Philippines. 



Uncaria Kawakamii HAYATA (PI. Ill) Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 140. 

 Shrub scandent, branches fuscous-rubescent, cyliiidric-tetragonous, with few 

 hairs ; branclilets slender, tetragonous, with a few femigineous hairs or 

 nearly glabrous, leaves remotely arranged, internodes 7 cm. long. Leaves 

 opposite, chartaceous, elliptical-ovate or oblong, 6-12 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, 

 suddenly acuminate at the apex, (acuminate parts obtuse at the end), truncate- 

 rounded or truncate-acute at the base, nearly entire, primary lateral veins 

 7 on each side, slender, costa on both surfaces slightly hairy, the rest glabrous, 

 very pallid on the lower surface, petioles 1 cm. long, hairy, stipules iiiter- 

 petiolar, triangular-ovate, 1 cm. long, 2-lobed at the apex, lobes acuminate, 

 glabrous, margin hairy. Heads axillary, solitary, with long peduncles, peduncles 

 (sterile peduncles) hairy, 2 cm. long, articulate with the pedicel and with 4- 

 bracts on the apex, bracts verticillate, two of them broader, 2-fid reflexed, 

 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 10 

 mm. long, 3^ mm. broad, margin ciliate, barbate at the base, the other two 

 narrower linear, 13 mm. long, li mm. broad, simple, margin scarcely ciliate, 

 (barbate at the base), pedicels (flowering peduncles) 1-1^ cm. long, with densely 

 adpressed hairs. Heads globose, li cm. long (corolla excluded), calyx- tube 

 long fusiform-urceolate, 4| mm. long, pubescent, limb campanulate, 2| cm. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed, lobes narrow, lanceolate, obtuse, margin and outside pubescent, 

 inside glabrous. Corolla-tube filiform, 1 cm. long, dilated upwards, limb cam- 

 panulate, 2 mm. long, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong-ovate or spathulate- 

 oblong, fleshy, 1 mm. long, f mm. broad, glabrous, rounded or shortly 

 mucronate at the apex, margin slightly reflexed, carinate on the middle of 



