PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 71 



four cleft, divisions sharp, erect. Segments of the corolla 

 sharp, villous below. Found near the waterfall. 



Callicarpa. 



Callicarpa dcntata, Eoxb. (C. cana L.). 



"Shrubby, downy; leaves ovate-cordate and elliptic, ac- 

 utely dentate, serrate wrinkled, very downy underneath ; pani- 

 cles axillary. Sub-globular, dichotomous, a little longer than the 

 petioles, calyx woolly, four toothed, stigma bifid, berries purple. 5 ' 

 Callicarpa americana Loureiro p. 88 ? Grows plentifully in 

 the forests near the bottom of the hill. 



PENTANDEIA— MONOGYNIA. 



Plumbago. 

 Plumbago rosea. Cultivated in gardens. 



Ipomea. 



I. pes-caprac, Convolvulus grows plentifully in sandy-soil 

 near the sea. 



Nauclea. 



1. Nauclea gambeer, H. {Uncaria Gambir~Roxh.). 



Climbing; branches round; leaves ovate, pointed, smooth; 

 stipules two, lateral, falling; peduncels axillary, solitary, simple, 

 jointed. Stem : shrubby; climbing to a great height, covered 

 with a rough brown bark, branches crowded, round, smooth ; 

 branchlets opposite, widely spreading. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, ovate pointed, waving, widely spreading, smooth, below 

 marked with transverse parallel veins. Stipules at the bases 

 of the branchlets and petioles, two, lateral, parabolical, sessile, 

 widely spreading, smooth, falling. Peduncles axillary, soli- 

 tary, round, straight, horizontal, much shorter than the leaves; 

 jointed near the apex and bracted'; after the flowers have fallen 

 the lower joint persistent, recurved, forming a hooked spine. 

 Bracts four, ovate, acute, spreading, very small, falling. 



= R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909. 



