28 LXXV. RUBIACE^}. (J. D. Hooker.) [Nauclea. 



peduncles only 2-3 lines, for Blume's N. excelsa is a true Ad'ni with slender cuneate 

 bracteoles amongst the flowers, and peduncles sometimes 2 in. 



N. OKIENTALIS, Lamk. III. t. 153, f. 1 ; Blume Bijd. 1066; Ham. in Trans. Linn, 

 Soc. xv. 94, is altogether doubtful. 



7. UN C A III A, Schreb. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules entire or 2-fid. Flowers 

 in globose axillary peduncled solitary or panicled heads ; peduncles often head- 

 less converted into hooked tendrils. Calyx-tube spindle-shaped ; limb 5-lobed 

 or -parted. Corolla-tube long, funnel-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, valvate ; throat 

 glabrous. Stamens 5, on the throat of the corolla, filaments short ; anthers with 

 2 basal bristles. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, stigma capitate ; ovules many, 

 ascending on projecting placentas. Capsule elongate, septicidally 2-valved, 

 many-seeded . Seeds imbricating upwards, testa winged above and below ; 

 embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen. DISTRIB. About 30 species, tropical 

 Asiatic, except 1 African and 1 American. The Gambier of commerce is the 

 produce of U. Gambier. 



* Calyx-limb long funnel- or bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate, corolla hirsute cr 

 villous. 



1. U. scleropbylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 520 ; branches robust obtusely 

 4-angled pubescent or villous, leaves short-petioled large ovate suborbicular or 

 oblong rigid pubescent beneath shining and reticulate above, peduncles all 

 axillary bracteate above the middle, heads very large, flowers pedicelled, corollas 

 villous. U. sclerophylla, iusignis, ferruginea, and pedicellata, DC. Prodr. iv. 

 347, 348. U. speciosa, Wall. Cat. G106. U. ferruginea, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 69. 

 Nauclea sclerophylla, Hunter in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 223. U. pedicellata, Bl. 

 Bijd. 1012. 



PENANG, Hunter, &c. MALAY PENINSULA, common from Pegu and Mergui to 

 Malacca, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 



Very large and stout. Leaves 5-6 by 3^-4 in., base rounded or cordate, rusty- 

 pubescent beneath with strong transverse nerves between the 8 pairs of stout principal 

 ones ; petiole J-l in. ; stipules hairy, rounded, 2-fid. Peduncle very stout, 2-4. in. ; 

 bracts 6 in a whorl, ^ in. long. Heads 4 in. diam. ; calyx tomentose, limb campanulate, 

 lobes triangular acute; corolla 1 in., silky or densely villous all over. Capsules 1-H 

 in., longer than their pedicels, very variable. Stems shaggy with long hairs in d, 

 specimen from Penang (Maingay), with capsules shorter and more turgid, and leaves 

 ovate very hairy beneath. The corollas vary from densely shaggy with spreading 

 fulvous hairs, to silkily shaggy with appressed hairs. 



2. U. pedicellata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 520 ; Ed. Wall $ Carey, ii. 128 ; 

 branches robust 4-angled, leaves short-petioled oblong ovate-oblong or elliptic 

 shining above puberulous beneath rigid, peduncles axillary and in terminal 

 panicles bracteate about the middle, flowers pedicelled, corolla -f in. with 

 long silky hairs. U. sclerophylla, Wall. Cat. 6105. U. ferruginea, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 348. U. Hallii, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Sot. 165, t. 33. Nauclea ferru-' 

 ginea, BE Bijd. 1013. 



PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 2755), 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 826). DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Closely allied to U. sclerophylla, but smaller in all its parts, with more oblong 

 leaves not so reticulate above and only minutely pubescent beneath ; heads nearly as 

 large, but flowers smaller and capsules much shorter and more turgid (as in one 

 specimen of sclerophylla). 



