28 Lxxv. RUBiACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Kauclea. 



peduncles only 2-3 lines, for Blume's N. excelsa is a true Ad:m witli slender cuneate 

 bracteoles amongst the flowers, and pedundes sometimes 2 in. 



N. oEiENTAiis, Lamk. Bl. t. 153, f. 1 ; Blume Bijd. 1066 ; Ham. in Trans. lAnn. 

 Soc. XV. 94, is altogether doubtful. 



7. TTNCARIA, Schreb. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules entire or 2-fid. Floioa-s 

 in globose axillary peduncled solitary or panicled heads ; peduncles often head- 

 less converted into hooked tendrils. Calyx-tuhe spindle-shaped ; limb 5-lobed 

 or -parted. Corolla-tube long, funnel-shaped; limb 5-lobed, valvate; throat 

 glabrous. Stamens 5, on the throat of the corolla, filaments short ; anthers with 

 2 basal bristles. Ovary 2-ceUed ; style slender, stigma capitate ; ovules many, 

 ascending on projecting placentas. Capsule elongate, septicidally 2-valved, 

 many-seeded . Seeds imbricating upwards, testa winged above and below ; 

 embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen. — ^DisiEiB. About 30 species, tropical 

 Asiatic, except 1 African and 1 American. — The Gambler of commerce is the 

 produce of U. Qambier. 



* Calyx-limb long funnel- or bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate, corolla hirsute ,cr 

 villous. 



1. "U. sclerophylla, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 520 ; branches robust obtusely 

 4-angled pubescent or villous, leaves short-petioled large ovate suborbicular or 

 oblong rigid pubescent beneath shining and reticulate above, peduncles all 

 axOlary bracteate above the middle, heads very large, flowers pedicelled, corollas 

 villous. U. solerophyUa, insignis, ferruginea, and pedicellata, DC. Prodr. iv.' 

 347, 348. U. speciosa. Wall. Cat. 6106. U. ferruginea, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 69. 

 Nauclea sclerophylla, Hunter in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 223. U. pedicellata, Bl. 

 Bijd. 1012. 



Penang, Hunter, &c. Malay Peninsula, common from Pegu and Mergui to 

 Halacca, Wallich, &c. — Distrib. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 



Very large and stout. Leaves 6-6 by 3J-4 in., base rounded or cordate, rusty- 

 pubescent beneath with strong transverse nerves between the 8 pairs of stout principal 

 ones ; petiole J-1 in. ; stipules hairy, rounded, 2-fid. Peduncle very stout, 2-4 in. ; 

 bracts 6 in a whorl, ^ in. long. Heads 4 in. diam. ; calyx tomentose, limb eampanulate, 

 lobes triangular acute ; corolla 1 in., silky or densely villous all over. Capsules 1-1^ 

 in., longer than their pedicels, very variable. — Stems shaggy with long hairs in a 

 specimen from Penang (Maingay), with capsules shorter and more turgid, and leaves 

 ovate very hairy beneath. The corollas vary from densely shaggy with spreading 

 fulvous hairs, to silldly shaggy with appressed hairs. 



2. tr. pedicellata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 520 ; Fd. Wall. ^ Carey, ii. 128 ; 

 branches robust 4-angled, leaves short-petioled oblong ovate-oblong or elliptic 

 shining above puberiilous beneath rigid, peduncles axUlary and in terminal 

 panicles bracteate about the middle, flowers pedicelled, corolla J-| in. with 

 long silky hairs. U. sclerophylla, Wall. Cat. 6105. U. ferruginea, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 348. U. Hallii, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesoh. Bot. 165, t. 33. Nauclea ferru- 

 ginea, Bl. Bijd. 1013. 



Penang and Singapore, Wallich, &c. Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. u. 2755), 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 826). — Distrib. Java, Borneo. 



Closely allied to U. sclerophylla, but smaller in all its parts, with more oblong 

 leaves not so reticulate above and only minutely pubescent beneath ; heads nearly as 

 large, but flowers smaller and capsules much shorter and more turgid (as in one 

 specimen of sclerophylla'). 



