226 •PENTANDRiA mokogynia. Uncirvx. 



pedicelled, two-ceiled partitions parallel. Seeds many, imbricated, 

 inembrane-winged. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 

 Our East India plants belonging to this genus are very permanen'ij 

 ciriferous ramblers; with opposite, stipulate leaves. Flowers g'° 

 bular, terminal, or axillary, and for the most part the capsules ped. 

 celled, and in that state like globular umbellets which (with the ha« 

 bit,) separates them from Nauclea- 



1. U. Gambler, hunter in Linn, transact, ix. 218, tab. 22.— 

 Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 187* 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles axillary, solitary. Capsules 

 clavate, pedicelled. 



Funis uucatus angustifoUus. Rump. amh. 5- P. 63. t-ZA.f, 

 2 and 3. 



A stout, scandent shrub, a native of Pulo-Pinang, Sumatra^ 

 Malacca, &c. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from ovate-oblong, to ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, entire, acute ; smooth on both sides ; about four inches long, 

 and two broad.— Stipules oblong, uniting the upper margin of the 

 base of the petioles, caducous.— Tendrils axillary, solitary, or in op- 

 posite pairs, simple, recurved, hooked.— Peduncles axillary, solitary 9 

 about the middle jointed and bracted, supporting a single globular 

 head, of beautiful, green and pink, small aggregate corollets.— 

 JBractes? about the middle of the peduncle, a three- or four-cleft an. 

 mular perianth-like cup.— Perianth, common, no other than the just 

 mentioned bracte ; proper sericeous on the outside with a five-cleft 

 border. — Corollets; tube filiform; border of five obtuse divisions^ 

 villous on the outside, and hairy in the centre of the inside. — Fila- 

 ments shori. Anthers large, on the mouth of the tube. — Germ be- 

 neath, turbinate, sub-sessile, sericeous. Style as long as the tube 

 of the corol. Stigma clavate. — Capsules pedicelled, clavate, longi* 

 tudinally grooved, crowned with the five-cleft permanent calyx, two* 

 ceiled, two-valved. — Seeds numerous, imbricated, winged. 



* Rees'a Cyclop, under Nauclea,— N. W, 



