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elliptic, slightly narrowed at base, the apex with a very short, blunt 

 acumen ; upper surface dark olivaceous-brown, shining ; lower •warm 

 brown, with short pale brownish hairs on the midrib, nerves, and their 

 axils, and on the distant transverse veins : main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 

 boldly prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper surface ; rather 

 straight, ascending; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole '4 

 to "5 in. Peduncles solitary, axillary, about twice as long as the petioles, 

 much compressed in the lower half, rusty-pubescent. Heads (to the 

 ends of the styles) nearly 15 in. in diam. Flowers shortly pedicellate. 

 Calyx '15 in. long, funnel-shaped, rusty- tomentose ; the tube slightly 

 inflated, the limb as long as the tube with short blunt teeth. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, narrowly cylindric, the mouth abruptly 

 expanded and cut into 5 deep, broad, blunt, oblong lobes. Capsules 

 narrowly double-fusiform, crowned by the wide calyx-limb, "7 to "9 in. 

 long, rusty-tomentose. U. Gamhier, Wall. Cat. 6105 0. in part. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 29 ; Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 83. ? U. 

 sclerophylla, Deless. Ic. Select. III. t. 81. 



Malacca : Holmberg 889. Penang : Hunter, Phillips, Curtis 185. 

 PsRAK: King's Collector 4i880 ; Wray 3150. Tenasserim and Andamans: 

 Heifer (K.D.) 2767.— Distrib. Borneo ; ? Java. 



Doubtful Species. 



Uncaria oVata, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 6112 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 29. The 

 single sheet bearing the No. 6112 in the Wallichiaa Herbarium at Burlington House 

 has two things glued down on it, viz., two twigs of U. Gamhier, Roxb., and a third 

 twig which must, by exclusion, be this. Unfortunately a specimen exactly resem- 

 bling this third twig, collected by Finlayson and probably, like so many of his plants, 

 in Siam, was issued by Wallich under the number 6103 D. and the name V. Gamhier, 

 while another also exactly like it, but collected in Sylhet, was issued by him 

 under the number 6107 and the name TJ. sessilifolia. I have seen no Malayan 

 specimens which resemble these two except the one attributed by "Wallich to Singa- 

 pnr, which I, therefore, believe must have been so attributed as the result of some 

 confusion of specimens at the time of issue. 



7. Coptosapelta, Korth. 



Scandent shrubs with terete branches. Leaves coriaceous, softly 

 hairy beneath ; stipules small, triangular, deciduous. Flowers in ter- 

 minal many-flowered often thyrsoid panicles; the buds 5-angled ; the 

 pedicels short, bi-bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid, 5-ridged, the limbs 

 shortly 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, salver-shaped ; the 

 tube narrow, its throat naked or hairy ; the limb deeply divided into 5 

 linear-oblong, blunt, valvate lobes, longer than or as long as the tube. 

 Stamens 5, inserted ou the throat ; anthers long, linear, flexuose, bifid at 



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