06 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
6. Unona piscotor, Vahl. Symb. ii. 63, ¢ 36. A spreading shrub, often also 
climbing; young branches slender, sub-rugose, pubescent towards the tips. Lewes 
membranous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base rounded; upper surface 
glabrous, shining; the lower glaucous, glabrous, or pubescent; main nerves 8 to 10 
pairs, sub-ascending, slightly prominent beneath; length 3 to 75 in., breadth 1 to 2 in.; 
petiole about °25 in. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, 2 to 2°5 im. long; peduncles 1 
to 2 in. long, rather slender, pubescent, with a minute linear bracteole below the 
middle, thickening when in fruit and lenticellate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, spreading, 
nearly glabrous, *4 to ‘6 in. long. Petals coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 2°5 in. 
long, glabrous or sparsely adpressed-sericeous. Ovaries oblong, hairy. Stigma laterally 
erooved, Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, *75 to 1:6 im. long, glabrous or pubescent, the 
constrictions between the 2 to 5 oval jomts pubescent; stalks *25 in long. Dunal Anon. 
111; DC. Prodr. i. 91; Wall. Cat. 6420 (partly); Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 669; W. & A. 
Progr. 9; Hf. & T. Fl. Ind. 1383; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 41; Beddome Ie. Pi. 
Ind. Or., t. 513. Bl. Fl. Jave Anon. 53; A. DC. Mem. Anon. 28; Thwaites’ Enum. 9; 
Kure For, Fl, Burm. 1. 84; Hook. fil. Fl. Ind. 1. 59; Scheff. Obs. Phyt. Anon. 5; 
Nat. Tiydsch. Ned. Ind, xxxi. 5; King in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 44.— 
U. cordifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 602?—U. Dunalii, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 131 (the Concan 
plant); Dalz. § Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 3 (not of Wallich)—U. Amherstiana, A. DC. Mem. 
Anon. 28.—U. biglandulosa, Bl. Biydr. 16.—U. Roxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 6423 B.— 
U. Lessertiana, Dunal Anon, 107, ¢. 26; DC. Prod. i. 90.—Desmos chinensis, Zour. Fl. 
Coch. Ch. 1. 352. 3 | 
Of this variable and abundant species, Sir Joseph Hooker distinguishes four 
varieties as follows :— 7 
Var. 1, pubiflora. Leaves 5-7 in., oblong, acute, base often cordate ; flowers 
cae silky, | | 
Var. 2, levigata. Leaves 3-4 in., oblong or lanceolate, acute, base rounded: 
_ flowers almost glabrous. U. chinensis, DC. Prodr. i. 90.—U. undulata, 
— Wall, Pi. As. Rar, ii, 42, tab. 265.—U. discolor, Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 
3, t, 265; Wall. Cat. 6428. Perhaps cultivated only in India; common 
In the Archipelago and China. ? 
Var. 3, pubescens, Leaves as in var. 1, but densely pubescent beneath. 
Var. 4, latifolia, Leaves 3-5 by 2-2°5 in., broadly oval, acute ; flowers silky. 
- U. discolor and var. b, bracteata, Bl. Fl. Jav. Anon, 53, t. 26 and 314A. 
From the base of the Eastern Himalaya, through the Assam range, to Burmah and 
the Malayan Peninsula; in tropical forests. Distrib.—The Malayan Archipelago, Chinese 
Mountains. Ke 
| Puate 74, Unona discolor, Vahl, 1, Flowering branch; 2, branch with young fruit; 
3, ripe iruit—of natural size; 4, anthers; 5, ripe fruit; 6, seed ; 7, section of wer: 
8, pistils—enlarged. | 
7. Unona virmprrtora, Bedd. Ie. Pi. dnd: OP 84 EOABR, Wh gigantic climber: 
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young branches slender, softly rufous-tomentose, the older glabrous and very lenticellate 
eaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded; upper surfade 
