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,stipulateleaves. 

 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. Gambier. Hunter in Linn. Transact, ix. 218. tab. 22. 

 Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 187. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles axillary, solitary. 

 Capsules clavate, pedicelled. 



Funis uncatus angustifolius. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 63. t. 34. 

 /. 2 and 3. 



A stout, scandent shrub, a native of Pulo Pinang, Suma- 

 tra, Malacca, &c. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from ovate-oblong, to ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire, acute ; smooth on both sides ; about four 

 inches long, and two broad. Stipules oblong, uniting the 

 upper margiu of the base of the petioles, caducous. Tendrils 

 axillary, solitary, or in opposite pairs, simple, recurved, hook- 

 ed. Peduncles 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 hairy in the centre of 



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