Puate 1956. 
NAUCLEA SINENSIS, Oliv. 
Rusiacex. Tribe Navcnees. 
N. sinensis, Oliv. (sp. nov.), glabra, ramis tetragonis v. ultimis acu- 
ularibus interdum cirrhis rigidis retrorsum uncinatis 
Has. China, Prov. Nan-t‘o; ‘and mountains to the northward,’ | 
Dr. A. Henry (No. 4501). 
Folia 4-5% poll. longa, 21-3 poll lata; pétiolus 2-4 poll. longus. 
Pedunculi 2-31 poll. longi. "Capitula florifera c. 1 poll. diam. Flores 
albi.—D. Oxrver. ; 
Dr. Henry has obliged us with the following memorandum :— 
‘This plant is known to the Chinese as kou-t‘éng, om Bee 
Creeper”; and is figured in Chih wu ming, xxii. 57. The hoo 
in Chinese medicine, being known at Hankow ( ol 
export of about 20 tons annually) as kou-ptien or we wie Bribe: 
these hooks a tincture is prepared with wine. The chief place of p | 
duction is Hupeh. 
‘In Japan a drug of the same name occurs, which is identified by a 
Matsumura as Uncaria rhynchophylla, Miq. | 
‘There are specimens in the Pharmaceutical Museum of both the 
Chinese and Japanese drug.’—A. Henry. | 
Fig. 1. stivation of corolla. 2. Flower, detached. 3. Corolla, laid open. 
4. Anther, back and front. Enlarged. 
