296 RtibiaceCB. \Uncaria. 



N. zeylanica, Hk. f. m Fl. B. Ind. iii. 26 (1 1 

 N. triflora. Moon Cat. 14. N. pedimcularls, Thw. Enum. 137 (non 

 Wall). C. P. 2820. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 26. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. or t. 235. 



A moderate-sized tree, branchlets slender, young parts 

 glabrous ; 1. 3-5 in., lanceolate, tapering to both ends, some- 

 what acuminate, obtuse or subacute at apex, glabrous on 

 both sides, petiole short, under \ in., stip. oblong, rounded at 

 apex; heads \—\ in., peduncles I— ijin. long, usually in threes 

 at end of branchlets, slender ; cal.-segm. obtuse, pubescent, 

 with a small appendage at apex ; cor. silky-pubescent, lobes 

 oval, apiculate ; style twice the length of cor. ; capsule (not 

 seen) short, many-seeded. 



Moist low country; rare. Adam's Peak (Moon); Sabaragamuwa ; 

 Balangoda, abundant (Thwaites) ; Uma-oya. FL May, June ; dull orange. 



Endemic. 



This is very close to N. peduncttlarls, Wall, of Sumatra, to which 

 Thw. refers it. If distinct, Moon's name is the oldest, and, though with- 

 out description, should perhaps be adopted in preference to Hk. f.'s. 



6. UN CAR! A, Schreb. 



A shrub, climbing by hooked peduncles, stip. large, fl. 

 small, in dense pedunculate axillary heads ; cal.-limb very 

 short, segm. 5, triangular, obtuse ; cor. -tube very slender, 

 lobes 5, valvate ; stam. 5, inserted at mouth of cor.; ov. 

 2-celled, with numerous ovules on large placentas, style long, 

 exserted, stigma large, oblong ; fruit an elongated capsule, 

 septicidally dehiscent, valves 2, chartaceous ; seeds minute, 

 numerous, compressed, with very long membranous tails at 

 each end. — Sp. about 30; 19 in Fl. B. Ind. 



TJ. dasyoneura, Korth. Verh. Nat. Ges. Bot. 169 (1839). Var. 

 Thwaitesii, Hk. f. in Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



U. Gambler, Thw. Enum. 138 (non Roxb.). C. P. 1661. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 31. Bentl. and Trim. Med. PL t. 139, f. 7 and 8 

 (fruit and seed only. U. Gambler). 



A very large wide-climbing shrub ; stems stout, bluntly 

 quadrangular, compressed below each node when young, 

 glabrous, dark green, internodes long, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. very numerous, persistent, spreading or deflexed, 3^-4-2 in., 

 narrowly ovate or oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, rounded 

 at base, suddenly caudate-acuminate, often twisted at apex, 

 glabrous and shining above and beneath except for little tufts 

 of hair in axils of lat. veins, coriaceous, dark green above, paler 

 beneath, lat. veins 5-7 on each side, slender, conspicuous, 



