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Singapore: Ridley 2854; Anderson 105. Perak: Wray 2738, 3115 

 Scortechini 256; King's Collector 2528, 4587, 6576, 7831, 7882, 10189, 

 10593. Fe^anG: Phillips; Curtis SS2. MALACGk: Maingay (K.J). ) 829. 

 — DiSTRiB. Sumatra; Borneo. 



A very distinct species, the leaves drying of a pale colour. 



13. Uncaria Gambier, Horfc. Beng. 86; Fl. Ind. I. 517. Young 

 branclies tliinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, olivaceous ; brown when dry, the lower surface paler ; 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate, the base usually rounded, 

 occasionally a little narrowed and oblique; both surfaces glabrous 

 except for the tufts of hair at the origin of the main-nerves from 

 tlie midrib on the lower : main-nerves 4-5 pairs, curved, spreading, 

 obscure on the upper, bold on the lower surface (when dry) ; length 

 3 to 4"5 in. ; breadth 1*85 to 2"25 in. ; petioles "2 to "25 in. ; stipules 

 ovate, bluntly acuminate, "3 in. long. Peduncles axillary, usually 

 shorter than the leaves, slightly compressed, bracteate above tlie 

 middle, glabrous below and pubescent above the bract; heads 1*75 in. 

 in diam. when in flower, 2*75 in. in fruit. Calyx shortly stalked, "35 in. 

 long, densely adpressed- silky ; the tube cylindric, ridged ; the mouth 

 campanulate, somewhat shorter than the tube; its lobes spreading, 

 ovate, blunt, glabrous inside. Corolla "5 in. long, narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, with sparse (rarely dense) white hairs outside, the lobes 

 broadly oblong, blunt, densely silky outside, glabrous inside. Capsules 

 narrowly double-fusiform, sometimes curved, '75 to 1 in. long, crowned 

 by the large calyx-tube, ridged, sparsely pubescent; the pedicels 

 unequal, '2 to "4 in. long. Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. t. 34 : Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 31: Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 81; 

 Wall. Cat. 6103 A.E.C. (in part) and 6107 in part. Nauclea Gambier, 

 Hunter in Linn. Trans. IX. 218 t. 22 ; Flem. in As. Res. XI. 187. 

 U. acida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 520. Nauclea acida, Hunter in Linn. Trans. 

 IX. 223. 



Singapore : Cunning 2403 ; Anderson 95 ; Ridley 2843 ; Walker 90 ; 

 King's Collector 1158; Eullett 361. P^ukK: King's Collector 2262. 

 Johor: King 671. Malacca: Derry 59; Oriff. 2757. — Distrib. Over 

 the whole Malayan Archipelago either cultivated or wild. 



Maingay No. 827 differs from the sheets above noted in having brown leaves and 

 rusty-pubescence. This may be the species named TJ. acida by Roxburgh whose 

 description makes it impossible now to distinguish it from U. Oamhier. 



14. Uncaria canescens, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. 172. A slender 

 creeper ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill ; grooved, compress- 

 ed and obtusely 4-angled, minutely pubescent. Leaves corinceous, 



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