Adina RUBIACEAE Emmenopterys 



3. Adina rubella Hance tRMP (Shui Yang Liu; Water Willow) (Lee 950). Shrub, to 

 3 m.; fls. white, pink, publish, VII-VIII; fr. IX. Southern and central China; 

 locally in An., Che., Ki., Ku., Hun., Hup. Woodland, stream-side. 



2. Cephalanthus. Linn. Buttonbush iUf j#fl (Feng Hsiang Shu Shu) 

 Shrubs or small trees: stipules triangular and interpetiolar: fls. small, A-merous, 

 in axillary globose heads; corolla with a long slender tube; stamens included; style 

 long-exserted; stigma capitate: fr. of each fl. dividing into two 1-seeded nutlets. 6 

 species, in Asia, Africa and North America; one in China. (Greek: kephalos, head 

 and anthos, flower.) 



1. Cephalanthus occidentalis Linn. Hfgft (Feng Hsiang Shu; Wind-box-bellows Tree) 

 (R.M.824). Deciduous shrub or tree, to 5 m.; fls. 4-merous, cream-white, VII-IX. 

 North America and eastern Asia; locally in Che., Hun., Ki., Ku. Woodland. 



3. Uncaria Schreb. $BM (Kou T'eng Shu) 

 Shrubs, climbing by hooked peduncles, with fls. in globular heads; corolla funnel- 

 shaped; stamens with short filaments; anthers with 2 basal bristles; stigma capitate: 

 fr. a 2-valved capsule with many winged seeds. 30 species, mostly in tropical Asia; 6 

 in China. (Latin: uncus, hook; the old peduncles being converted into hooked axillary 

 spines.) 



1. Uncaria rhynchophylla Miq. §i)jf| (Kou T'eng; Hook Vine) (JLSB33:89). Woody 

 vine; fls. greenish cream-colored, V-VIII; fr. VIII-X. Japan, southern China; 

 locally in Ki. Forest. Fig. 345. 



4. Morinda Linn. ¥fi\MH (Yang Chio T'eng Shu) 



Shrubs, sometimes climbing, or trees, with opposite lvs. and connate or sheathing 



stipules: fls. in umbellately arranged head-like clusters; calyx truncate or obscurely 



4-7-lobed: ovary 2-4-celled, developing in fr. as many 1-seeded nutlets buried in the 



fleshy syncarp. About 40 species, in the Old World and the Pacific Islands; 5 in China. 



1. Morinda umbellata Linn. #^ff§ (Yang Chio T'eng; Goat-horn Vine) (Be. F. 159). 

 Diffuse climbing shrub; fls. white, in head-like clusters, V; fr. yellow, IX. 

 Southeastern Asia to Australia; locally in Che., Hun., Ki. Woodland. 



5. Damnacanthus Gaertn. f. f^TtM (Fu Niu Hua Shu) 



Ours a brg. shrub with slender spines at nodes, 1 for each If., small sub-sessile lvs. 

 and small white axillary fls., solitary or in prs.; corolla funnel-shaped, hairy in the 

 throat; anthers exserted: fr. a small globose drupe with 1-4 nutlets. 2-3 species, in 

 eastern Asia. (Greek: damnao, to conquer, and acanthos, a spine; in reference to the 

 strong opposite thorns.) 



1. Damnacanthus indicus Gaertn. fjt^tt (Fu Niu Hua; Prostrate-cow Flower) (Mak.F. 

 114). Shrub, to lm.; fls. white, IV-V; fr. red, II. Eastern Asia; locally in Che., 

 Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. Cultivated, ornamental. Fig. 346. 



6. Emmenopterys Oliv. ^%kffiM (Hsiang Kuo Shu Shu) 



Unarmed deciduous trees with petiolate coriaceous lvs. and caducous stipules: fls. 



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