Uncnria. PENTANDRrA MONOGYNIA. 131 



•~Stem sub-cylindric, very obscurely quadrangular, with grayish bark- 

 about an inch in diameter ; the wood is remarkably porous like that 

 of a ratan, the centre of it quadrangular, and filled with brownish 

 fulgent pith. — Branches very Ion? and blender, bluntly four-cornered, 

 then upper ends four-fui rowed. Hooks axillary, opposite, about two 

 >»ch hairy, recuned, tapering from a very broad and flat 



into a round apex which is crowned by a vestige of the bractes. 

 — leaves opposite, spreading, sub-bifarious, generally larger than 

 their interstices, ovate, acuminate, sometimes sub-cordate, from 

 fhe to seven niches long, very hairy on both sides, chiefly below, 

 where they are maiked with sub-opuosite obliquely arched nerves 

 and parallel reticulate veins; the upper surface roughish and some- 

 what rugose; acumen linear, two-thirds of an inch long. — Tetiols 

 very short, round, and hairy. — Stipules ititerpetiolary, deeply bipartite, 

 almost diphyllous ; segments lanceolate, acute, longer than the petiols, 

 with recurved apex. — Peduncles axillary, opposite, divaricate, neatly 

 three inches long, flat at the base, from thence tapering; at the 

 exterior one- third of tneir length they are jointed and bear a verticil 

 of about six small linear-lanceolate bractes, which are three lines long, 

 hairy without, smooth within; they fall off together with the ap c x of 

 the peduncle, after which the remaining two-thirds become the above- 

 mentioned recurved hooks. — Florcers very numerous, whitish, hairy, 

 forming round dense heads of two inches in diameter. — Laciidcz of 

 the calyx linear, sub-c'avate, obtuse, very hairy. — Tube of the corolla 

 filiform, remarkably long. S^/eexseited, capillary. Sligma clavate* 



Q. U. lanosa, Wall 



Shrubby; scandent, clothed with long spreading hairs. Leaves 

 lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, smoother above, short-rpetioled. Stipules 

 ovale, membranous, two-leaved, recurved. Peduncles short, becom- 

 ing hooks. Corollcs almost smooth. Capsules on long pedicels. 



A native of forescs at Pinang; communicated by Mr. Jack, sur- 

 geon to Sir Stamford Raffle?, the governor of Sumatra. 



A climbii g shrub; all the upper parts densely clothed with long 



spreading ferruginous, soft, shining hairs. — Branches opposite, spread- 



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