Uncaria.] RUBIACER. 71 
5. U. sessilifructus, Roxb.—A large scandent shrub, the younger 
parts somewhat pruinous, puberulous; leaves from elliptical to 
broadly obovate-lanceolate, on 3-4 lin. long, slender, obsoletely 
puberous petioles, 2-3 in. long, acute or obtuse at the base, shortly 
and abruptly acuminate or apiculate, thin-coriaceous, entire, glabrous, 
beneath more or less glaucous and with a tuft of hairs in the nerve- 
axils ; flowers small, whitish, sessile, on a hispid-pubescent receptacle, 
forming a small globular head of about an inch or less in diameter 
on compressed, above the middle bracted, obsoletely puberous pedun- 
* eles which arise solitary from the axils of the leaves or often race- 
mosely along the end of the branchlets; calyx more than a line long, 
appressed-pubescent, truncate and obsoletely 5-toothed; corolla-tube 
slender, glabrous, 3-4 lin. long, the lobes very short, velvety ; 
capsules sessile, spindle-shaped, crowned by the 5-toothed calyx- 
limb, about 2 in. long, sparingly appressed-pubescent. 
eae the tropical forests of Pegu and Tenasserim.—Fr. Nov.-Dec.— 
8: 
LUCULIA, Sw. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, the lobes of the limb unequal, deciduous. 
Corolla salver-shaped, with a long tube, the limb horizontally 
5-lobed, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-tube ; 
filaments very short. Disk annular. Ovary 2-celled, with numer- 
ous ovules in each cell attached to the 2-lamellate placentas; style 
slender; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule almost woody, 2-celled and. 
septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds minute, shortly winged 
at the apex, albuminous. Embryo minute, the cotyledons blunt.— 
Shrubs or small trees, with interpetiolar, subulate-pointed, deciduous 
stipules. Flowers showy, in terminal corymb-like panicles. 
1. L. gratissima, Sw.—An evergreen shrub, glabrous or the 
young shoots somewhat puberous ; leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate at both ends, on a slender petiole up to 4 in. long, 
membranous, 4-6 in. long, glabrous; flowers showy, rose-co oured, 
on longer or shorter pedicels, forming a terminal corymb-like 
panicle; calyx glabrous, the tube 2 lin. long, the lobes up to 4 lin. 
long, oblong or linear-oblong, stiff, erect, deciduous; corolla-tube 
about an in. long, lobes of the limb rotundate, 4-5 lin. long. 
Haz.—Ava hills,—Fl. R.S. : 
HYMENODICTYON, Wall. 
Calyx-tube ovoid, the limb 5-toothed ; corolla funnel-shaped, 
_ Naked at the throat, the limb 5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted at the — 
throat and included ; filaments very short; anthers erect, oblong. 
