GfJ8 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. UnOlia. 



axillary, many-flowered. Calyx minute. Petals unequal, 

 the inner three cuneiform. Berries sub-sessile, one-seeded. 

 A native of the Moluccas. 



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. 

 Embryo erect, and amply furnished with a perisperm. 



1. U. lonfjiflora R. 



Leaves lineur-oblono:. Flowers from two lo three-petal- 

 led, of great lenjith and pendulous. Joints of the berries 

 few and linear ol lung. 



KwUa ki/ra 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, bifarioiis, short- 

 petioled, linear-oblong, entire, smooth on both sides, and 

 particularly glaucous underneath, from six to twelve in- 

 ches long, and Irom two to four broad. Peduncles ax- 

 illary, solitary, from three to ten inches long, filitbrni, 

 smooth, one-flowered. Flowers uncommonly long, pen- 

 dulous ; yellow on the outside, bright orange on the 

 inside. Calyx three-leaved ; leaflets reniform, cordate, 

 acuminate, very small and hairy. Petals t\\ o, 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, clavate, 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, long-pedicelled, drooping, from two to four. 



