63. RUBIACE--E. 81 



HAB. Koshun : Kankaw. 



Near JV. >'',>; j; a Roxr>. and N. rcfi'/>J"f<> Hw., but differs from the 

 both by the olx>vate and shortly acute leaves. 



4. I'ncaria SCHREB. 



Uncaria florida TIDAL ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 182. 

 HAB. Kotosho, Garanibi. 

 DISTRIB. Tlie Philippines. 



Uncaria Kawakamii HAYATA (PL HI) Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 140. 

 Slirub scandent, branches fuscous-rubescent, cylindric-tetragonous, with few 

 hairs ; branchlets slender, tetragonous, with a few ferrugineous hairs or 

 nearly glabrous, leaves remotely arranged, internodes 7 cm. long. Leaves 

 opposite, chartaceons, elliptical-ovate or oblong, 6-12 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, 

 suddenly acuminate at the apex, (acuminate parts obtuse at the end), truncate- 

 rounded or truncate-acute at the base, nearly entire, primary lateral veins 

 7 on each side, slender, costa on both surfaces slightly hairy, the rest glabrous, 

 very pallid on the lower surface, petioles 1 cm. long, liairy, stipules inter- 

 petiolar, triangular-ovate, 1 cm. long, 2-lobed at the apex, lobes acuminate, 

 glabrous, margin hairy. Heads axillary, solitary, with long peduncles, peduncles 

 (sterile peduncles) hairy, 2 cm. long, articulate with the pedicel and with 4- 

 bracts on the apex, bracts verticillate, two of them broader, 2-fid reflexed, 

 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 10 

 mm. long, 3i mm. broad, margin ciliate, barbate at the base, the other two 

 narrower linear, 13 mm. long, 14 mm. broad, simple, margin scarcely ciliate, 

 (barljate at the base), pedicels (flowering peduncles) 1-14; cm. long, with densely 

 adpressed hairs. Heads globose, li cm. long (corolla excluded), calyx-tube 

 long fusiform-urceolate, 4i mm. long, pubescent, limb campanulate, 2j cm. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed, lobes narrow, lanceolate, obtuse, margin and outside pubescent, 

 inside glabrous. Gorofla-tobe filiform, 1 cm. long, dilated upwards, limb cam- 

 panulate, 2 mm. long, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong-ovate or spitlmlato- 

 oblong, fleshy, 14^ mm. long, j mm. broad, glabrous, rounded or shortly 

 mucronate at the apex, margin slightly reflexed, cariuate on the middle of 



