128 pentAnbma monogynia. Uncaria. 



Bay of Bengal I learn that the process is carried on by boiling the 

 leaves and young shoots ; evaporating the decoction by fire and the 

 heat of the sun. When sufficiently inspissated, it is spread out thin, 

 and cut into little square cakes and dried. 



The same substance is mentioned by Marsden in his History of 

 Sumatra, at p. §42-3, who refers for a particular detail of the cul- 

 tivation of the plant and manufacture of the Gambier, to the 2.d 

 volume of the Transactions of the Batavian Society, 



2. U. ovalifolia, 12- 



Leaves oval, entire, smooth. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 compound. Capsules and common receptacle villous. 



A native of the Island of Pulo=Pinang» 



Trunk and branches woody, climbing to a great extent. Bark 

 dark-brown. — Leases opposite, petioled and obovate, pointed, 

 smooth on both sides, entire; from three to six inches long- — Petioles 

 short, recurved, channelled. — Peduncles axillary and terminal, ex- 

 panding, bearing from one to three aggregate flowers. — Pedicels 

 nearly as long as the peduncles, bracted and jointed at the middle. 

 —Bracles sheathing, with the mouth from two- to six-cleft. — Calyx, 

 common perianth none. Receptacle globular, villous. Proper pe- 

 rianth above, five-toothed- — Corol, aggregate, equal, globular. Co- 

 rollets numerous, funnel-shaped; tube very long and slender; border 

 of five obovate divisions. — Filaments scarcely any. Anthers affixed 

 to the mouth of the tube. — Germ beneath. Style the length of the 

 corol. Stigma clavate. — Capsules two-celled, villous. — Seeds nu- 

 merous, minute, imbricated from the bass of the receptacle, 



3. U. pedicellata, R. 



Leaves ovate-cordate Peduncles axillary ? solitary, undivided, 

 Corolhts long-pedicelled. 

 A native of the Molucca Islands. 



