Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 131 



5. UnCARia ferrea, DC. Prod. IV. 348. Young bvcanclies much 

 thinner than a goose-quill, minutely but deciduously rusty-pubescent, 

 the bark dark-coloured. Leaves membranous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly eniargin- 

 ate ; upper surface dark-coloured when dry, glabrous or witli a few 

 scattered deciduous sub-adpressed pale hairs, the midrib and sometimes 

 the main-nerves pubescent; lower surface pale, minutely reticulate, sub- 

 adpressed rusty-pilose on the midrib and nerves; main-nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, curving upwards, depressed on the upper surface like the midrib 

 and prominent on the lower ; length 2*5 to 3'25 in. ; breadth l"35 to 2 

 in. ; petioles *! to '2 in., toraentose ; stipules broadly semilunar, deeply 

 two-lobed, adpressed rusty-pilose, '25 in. long. Pedancles much longer 

 than the petioles, but shorter than the leaves, lengthening in fruit, com- 

 pressed, densely ferruginous-tomentose'; bracteate above the middle; 

 heads about 1"5 to 2 in. in diam. when in flowei', and 2 to 3 in. when in 

 fruit. Calyx shortly stalked, '25 in. long, silky; the tube narrowly 

 oblong-ovoid; the limb deeply divided into filiform lobes longer than 

 the tube. Corolla aboat twice as long as the calyx, glabrous ; its tube 

 very narrowly cylindric, angled : the lobes of the mouth broadly oblong 

 or obovoid, very obtuse. Capsules double-fusiform, ridged, pubescent, "5 

 to '75 in. long, crowned by the filiform calyx-lobes, tapered into slender 

 pedicels as long as themselves. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 33; Havil. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 87 ; Koord. & Valet. 8, U. U. Horsjiel- 

 (liana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 151. Nauclea ferrea, Blume Bijdr. 1014. 



Perak : Scortechini 130 ; Wray 2555 ; Curtis 1305 ; King's Collector 

 2240, 2453, 4899. Selangor : Goodenotigh. — Distrtb. Sumatra ; Borneo ; 

 Java. 



vAR. tomentosa ; young branches, under-surfaces of leaves and 

 peduncles densely rusty-tomentose, calyx and capsules more silky than 

 in the type. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 830 ; Derry 1070 ; Eidley 10078. Perak : 

 King's Collector 429, 790, 5390. Pahang : Ridley 2192. Negri Sembilan : 

 Eidley 10080. Andamans : jffeZ/er 2761.— Distrib. Java ; Sumatra. 



6. Uncaria glabrata, DO. Prod. IV. 348. As in U. ferrea but 

 with young branches glabrous and often bearing shining, much recurved 

 slender hooks about than '5 in. long; longer peduncles (which are 

 glabrous and bracteate not much below the apex) ; less filiform, blunt 

 calyx lobes; and glabrous capsules which are thicker but shorter (about 

 •4 in. long). Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 85 ; Koord. & Valet. 

 Bijdr. 8, 44. U. Lohbii, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 33. 



Singapore : Lobh. 100, 332 ; Ridley 2846, 2853, 8035 ; Hulleft ; King's 

 Collector 'ill! , Selangor: Goodenough. — Distrib. Sumatra; Java; Borneo. 



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