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shining, sparsely adpressed-pubescent, ultimately glabrous, the reticulations minute, distinct ; 
lower paler (sub-glaucous), adpressed-pubescent, especially on the midrib and nerves; 
main nerves 9 or 10 pairs, sub-ascending, curving, prominent beneath; length 3. to 
5°) in., breadth 1:2 to 1:9 in.; petiole +15 to ‘25 in., rufous-pubescent. Flowers solitary, 
extra-axillary, 1:5 to 25 in. long; pedicel slender, rufous-pubescent, 1 to 2 in. long, 
with a large, broadly ovate, acuminate bract below the middle. Sepals membranous, 
nerved, broadly ovate-lanceolate, free, sub-cordate at the base, °5 to ‘75 in. long. 
Petals membranous, bright green, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, reticulate, silky- 
pubescent; the inner row smaller. Fruié unknown. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 60, 
Travancore: on the Attramallee Ghat, elevation 4,000 feet,—Beddome. 
Puare 75. Unona viridiflora, Bedd. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower dissected—of 
natural size, (Copied from Col. Beddome’s Ice. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 158.) 
8. Unona pumosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 670. A large bushy climber; young branches 
slender, softly rufous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, 
obovate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, sub-acute or broadly mucronate; the base rounded 
or sub-cordate, or sub-cuneate; when young rufous-tomentose on both surfaces; the upper, 
except the midrib, glabrescent when old; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, sub-ascending, 
rather straight; length 2 to 5°25 in., breadth 1:25 to 2°5 in.; petiole °15 in. to 1°5 in., 
rufous-tomentose. Flowers solitary, leaf-opposed or extra-axillary, 2 to 2°5 in. long; 
pedicels *5 to ‘75 in. long, rufous-tomentose, with a single ovate bract near the base. 
Sepals coriaceous, cordate or ovate, sub-acute or acute, spreading, rufous-tomentose, “4 
in. long. Petals obovate-spathulate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, tapering to each end, 
vertically nerved, densely pubescent at first, less so when old; the inner row smaller. 
Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, glabrous, ‘75 to 1°4 in. long, much constricted between 
the 2 to 3 ovoid joints. Seeds shining ; the albumen with transverse fibres. Wall. Cat. 
6429; H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 181; Hook, fil. Fi. Br. Ind. i. 59; King in Journ. As, Soc. 
Bengal 61, pt. 2, 40. , 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) Nos. 42 and 43, Perak,—King’s Collector, 
Wray. Sylhet,—Roxburgh, Wailich. Assam,— Simons. 
The form which occurs in the Malayan Peninsula has narrower petals than that 
which is found in Assam and Sylhet, and its leaves are more oblong and less ovate. 
Prare 76, Unona dumosa, Roxb, 1, Branch with ripe carpels; 2, young flower; 
3, fully developed flower (from Sylhet specimens); 4, flower (from a Perak specimen ); 
5, section of seed showing the albumen and embryo—of natural size; 6, anther; 7 & 8, 
pistils—enlarged, 
9. Unona Lawn, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 132. An erect shrub; young branches slender, 
dark-coloured, with pale warts, the youngest puberulous, eaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, the base rounded or slightly cuneate; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower 
sub-glaucous, sparsely and minutely strigose; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, spreading, incon- 
spicuous; length 2°5 to 3:5 in., breadth 1 to 1:2 in.; petiole *1 to ‘2 in., pubescent. Fiowers 
solitary, extra axillary, 1°5 to 2:5 m. long; pedicels about 1 in., slender, sparsely strigose, 
with a single ovate bract below the middle. Seva/s ovate-acuminate, spreading or reflexed, 
+35 in. long. Petals with a narrowly linear pubescent limb, and a slightly expanded 
Ann Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcutra Vor. IV, 
