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petioles, slender, rusty-puberulous, or glabrous, occasionally formiug 

 compressed tapering much recurved hooks, the bract small and near the 

 base. Head about 1 in. in diam. in flower and 15 in. in fruit. Calyx 

 •15 in. long, nearly sessile, densely rusty-pubescent except the lobes ; the 

 tube narrowly ovoid, contracted into a cylindric deeply lobed limb, the 

 lobes short, broadly oblong, blunt, spreading, sub-glabrous. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, very narrowly funnel-shaped, pale pubescent 

 outside, the teeth narrowly oblong, blunt, glabrous inside. Capsules 

 narrowly double-fusiform, occasionally somewhat curved, about '4 or "5 

 in. long, crowned by the thick, erect calyx-tube, narrowed into the short 

 rusty pilose pedicel, adpressed-pubescent. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Tnd. III. 

 30. N. ovalifoUa, Spreng. Syst. IV. Curae Post. 80. 



Malacca: Grifith (K.D.) 2758,2759; Cunning 2292. Selangor: 

 Curtis 2342. Perak: Scortechini; King's Collector 5262. — Distrib. 

 Burma ; Borneo. 



10. Uncaria jasminiflora, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 32. Youn^ 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, somewhat compressed, 4-angled, 

 puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, rarely elliptic- 

 lanceolate, with an abrupt, short, blunt acumen, the base rather abruptly 

 narrowed to the slender petiole ; both surfaces glabrous ; when adult the 

 nerves and midrib on the lower surfaces puberulous ; when young the 

 upper pale brown and shining when dry ; the lower paler and minutely 

 reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or G pairs, spreading, curving upwards, tliin ; 

 length 2 to 2*5 in.; breadth 1 to 1'5 in. ; petiole "5 in., puberulous; 

 stipules entire, '2 in. long. Fedundes axillary, longer and thicker than 

 the petioles ; compressed, puberulous ; heads leather more than 1 inch in 

 diam. when in flower, about 1*75 when in fruit, bracteate near the apex. 

 Calyx shortly pedicellate, -15 in. long, adpressed pilose; the tube shortly 

 double-fusiform, about as long as the campanulate limb, lobes short, broad, 

 obtuse, glabrous inside. Capsules about *5 in. long, double-fusiform, 

 crowned by the calyx-limb, ridged, puberulous, their pedicels slender, 

 •15 to '2 in. long. Wall. Cat. 6103 C.F. ; Havil. in Journ. Linn. See. 

 XXXIII. 80. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2766; Maingay (K.D.) 832, 833. Singa- 

 pore: Ridley 10415, 6467; King 382. Perak : King's Collector 4619, 

 .7860 ; TFm?/ 3124. Selangor: iJttZZe?/ 8579.— Distrib. Borneo. 



Var. macrophylla, King. Stem-hooks stout, compressed, much 

 curved. Leaves 3'5 to 5 in. long, dark brown and very shinino" in the 

 upper surface, 3'5 to 5 in. long and 2 to 2*5 in. broad; capsules nearly 

 glabrous. 



Singapore : ScJwmhirgJc 65; Anderson 87; Hullett 41, 75. 



11. Uncaria trinervis, Haviland in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXfll. 



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