136 Flora of flie Malayan Penmsida. 



olivaceous and shining on the upper surface, pale and dull on the lower 

 (when dry), elliptic or ovate-elliptic, abruptly, bluntly and shortly 

 acuminate, rounded or sliglitly narrowed at the base ; upper surface 

 glabrous except the puberulous midrib and nerves, the lower minutely 

 pale-puberulous ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, depressed on the upper and 

 prominent on the lower surface, slightly curved, ascending ; length 3*5 to 

 6 in. ; breadth J "85 to 3 in.; petioles '5 to "7 in., pubescent. Peduncles 

 slender, slightly longer than the petioles, densely rusty-pubescent in the 

 upper parts bracteate about or below the middle ; heads "5 or '6 in. in 

 diam. Calyx '15 in. long, shortly stalked, adpressed rusty-pilose, the tube 

 double-fusiform, the mouth expanded, its lobes broad, blunt, glabrous 

 within. Corolla rather more than twice as long as the calyx, pilose, the 

 tube very narrowly cylindrical ; the lobes of the mouth short, lanceolate- 

 ovate, sub-acute, glabrous inside. Capsules unknown. Hook. fil. PI. Br. 

 Ind. HI. 29: Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 80. 



Pebak: King's Collector 3871,4584. Penang: Griffith, Curtis S3l. 



15. Uncaria dasyoneura, Korth. Ver. Nat. Gesch. 169. Young 

 branches obtusely 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-rotund, 

 shortly, abruptly and bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or narrowed, 

 upper surface dark-brown when dry, glabrous, shining; the lower paler 

 brown ; laxly hirsute on the midrib and nerves, otherwise glabrous, rarely 

 with tufts of hair in the nerve axils ; main-nerves 4-6 pairs, very 

 slightly curved, ascending, distinct below ; the intermediate veins 

 horizontal: length 3 to 4 in.; breadth 175 to 225 in.; petioles about 

 •5 in. long, narrowly winged above, glabrous ; stipules minute ; entire. 

 Peduncles shorter than the petioles, broad, glabrous and compressed at 

 the base, thin and pubescent in the upper two-thirds, with deciduous, 

 linear-oblong bracts at the point of constriction. Flowers sub-sessile. 

 Calyx naiTOwly urceolate, minutely ferruginous-tomentose, about '15 in. 

 long ; its limb with broad, blunt lobes. Corolla three times as long as 

 the calyx: the tube narrowly cylindric, adpressed hairy, the limb shortly 

 campanulate, with 5 blunt lobes, glabrous inside. Capsules narrowly 

 double-fusiform, glabrous, "8 in. long, their pedicels shorter. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 143; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 3]; Havil. in Linn. 

 Journ. XXXIL 82. U. Gamhier, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 138. U. elliptica, 

 R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 6104 A. (in part), B. 



Malacca : Griffith 2756 ; Maingay (K.D.) 827/2. Singapore : Lohb. 

 Penanq : Phillips; Curtis 1070. Perak : King's Collector 2501. — DiSTRiB. 

 Java, Ceylon. 



16. Uncaria attenuata, Korth. in Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 170; t. 

 34. Young branches thinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4-angled, 

 minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic or ovate- 



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