34 LXXV. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Uncaria. 



species this name applies ; it is a native of Penang, and stated to have acid foliage. 

 Wallich does not include it in his Catalogue. Miquel (FL Ind. Bat. ii. 145) records 

 it as a native of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Moluccas, and from his allusion to 

 its often monstrous state from Borneo he probably refers to it the U. ovalifolia. 



U. CIRRHIFLORA, Roxb. Fl. Lid. i. 520, doubtfully referred in Fl. Ind. y ed. Carey $ 

 Wall. ii. 129 to U. pedicellate, is not determinable. 



TRIBE II. CINCHONEJE. 



8. HYBIENOPOGON, Wall, 



An epiphytic undershrub. Leaves petioled, deciduous ; stipules large, per- 

 sistent, with fleshy axillary bristles. Floivers rather large, corymbose, white ; 

 corymbs with large white leafy reticulated bracts. Calyx-lobes elongate, per- 

 sistent. Corolla-tube long, limb salver-shaped, throat with reflexed hairs; 

 lobes 5, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted below the throat, filaments short ; 

 anthers linear, included. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, 2-grooved, stigmas 2 

 linear ; ovules many, subulate, imbricate on peltate placentas. Capsule crowned 

 with the calyx, septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds imbricate, linear, 

 with long tails at each end, hilum lateral ; embryo minute in copious albumen. 

 DISTKIB. 2 Indian species. 



1. K. parasiticus, Watt, in Roxb. FL Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall ii. 157 ; 

 PL As. Rar. iii. t. 227 ; Cat. 6113 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate 

 acuminate, corymbs shorter than the leaves, flowers pedicelled, corolla-lobes 

 villous. Kurz For. FL ii. 73. Musssenda cuneifolia, Don Prodr. 139. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 6-8000 ft., Wallich. &c. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. PEGU, alt. 3000 ft., Kurz. 



A small straggling often epiphytic shrub. Stem curved, rooting, shoots villous. 

 Leaves at the ends of the branches, 3-12 by 2-4 in., membranous, narrowed into the 

 short petiole, midrib broad, nerves about 20 pair ; stipules ovate, acute. Corymbs 

 3-chotomous ; peduncle 2-3 in. ; bracts at the axils stipule-like, those at the pedicels 

 foliaceous, long-petioled, 3-4 in. long, narrow oblong, obtuse or acute, finely reticu- 

 lated. Calyx-lobes linear. Corolla 1^ in. Capsule membranous, turbinate. 



2. K. assamicus, Ifook.f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate, 

 corymbs longer than the leaves, flowers subsessile, corolla-lobes glabrous. 



ASSAM, Masters (Herb. Hort. Sot. Calc.). 



Stem as in H. parasiticus. Leaves 5-10 by 2-2| in., subfalcate, narrowed into the 

 shorter pubescent petiole, glabrous, midrib slender, nerves 30-40 pair; stipules ovate, 

 acuminate. Peduncle slender, 5 in., with the rachis 8 in. ; branches long, slender ; 

 bracts at the axils whprled, ovate, acute, at the pedicels petioled foliaceous lanceolate 

 acute. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate. Corolla f in. 



9. COPTOS APELTA, Korth. 



Climbing tomentose shrubs. Leaves coriaceous ; stipules small, triangular, 

 deciduous. Flowers in terminal pendulous panicles, buds angular. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate or subglobose; teeth 5, short, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, tube 

 very short ; lobes 5, linear, twisted in bud. Stamens 5, on the throat of the 

 corolla; filaments short, subulate; anthers elongate, 2-fid at the base, back 

 hairy. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style short ; stigma loug fusiform, with 4 pubescent 

 angles ; ovules many, ascending, placentas on the septum. Capsule 2-3-celled, 



