134 Flora nf the Malayan Peninsula. 



80. Young branches thinner than a goose-qnill, obtusely 4-anglecl, 

 compressed and broad at the nodes, pale brown, glabrous ; the hooks 

 much curved and compressed. Leaves coriaceous, pale brown when dry, 

 ovate or elliptic, slightly and abruptly narrowed at the base, the apex 

 shortly, abruptly and broadly acuminate ; both surfaces quite glabrous, 

 with fine transverse veins and minute reticulations'; main-nerves 3 pairs, 

 ascending, depressed on the upper, but prominent on the lower surface ; 

 length 3-5 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 1"75 to 25 in. ; petiole '7 to '9 in. ; stipules 

 small, broad, entire. Inflorescence racemose ; peduncles "75 in. long, 

 compressed, minutely pubescent; their bases broad and glabrous ; bracts 

 {fide Haviland) entire, '15 in. long. Heads (including the styles) about 

 1 in. in diam., the flowers sub-sessile, pale tomentose externally. Calyx 

 •1 in. long, its lobes broad, blunt. Corolla "25 in. long, the tube cylin- 

 dric; the lobes broad, blunt. Capsules double-fusiform, crowned by the 

 conspicuous calyx, minutely pilose, '5 in. long ; receptacles without brac- 

 teoles, hirsute, 



Penang : Curtis 1247. Perak : Curtis 2981. 



Allied to V. pteropoda, Miq., but with smaller quite glabrous leaves which have 

 only 3 pairs of nerves and with smaller flowers. Alliad also to U. canescens, Korth., 

 from which it is distinguished by its smaller, fewer-nerved, glabrous leaves. 



12. Uncaria pteropoda, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 343. Young 

 branches 4-angled, somewhat compressed, broadly grooved, as thick as a 

 goose-quill, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-rotund, the apex with 

 a short, broad, blunt point, the base broad and rounded ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, the upper shining, minutely reticulate (when dry) : the lower 

 pale-glaucescent ; main-nerves about 8 pairs, deeply depressed like the 

 midrib on the upper surface, prominent on the lower, spreading, curving 

 slightly upwards ; length 5 to 6'5 in. ; bi-eadth 3"5 to 6 in. ; petiole B5 

 to '85 in. long, with a broad undulate wing. Peduncles axillary, strong, 

 much compressed, grooved, somewhat longer than the petioles, often 

 much recurved, bracteate near the apex ; sometimes collected into a 

 terminal panicle longer than the leaves ; heads about 1 inch across when 

 in flower, two or three times as much when in fruit. Calyx shortly 

 stalked, '25 to '3 in. long in flower, rusty-pubescent; its tube narrow, 

 double-fusiform, about "25 in. long, crowned by the short narrowly 

 campanulate limb, its lobes narrowly oblong, blunt or sub-acute. 

 Corolla nearly three times as long as the calyx, silky, the tube narrowly 

 cylindric ; the lobes of the limb broad, obovate, blunt. Capsules narrowly 

 double-fusiform, "6 to "75 in, long, up to 1 in. when quite ripe ; on 

 stalks nearly as long, minutely rusty-pubescent, crowned by the short 

 calyx-tube. Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. III. 29; Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXIII. 82. 



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