408 BVBIACUJS. [Uncaeia. 



cupular or tubnlar, truncate or 5- toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 tube long, throat hairy or glabrous, lobes 5, short, valvate. Stamens 

 5, on the throat of the corolla, filaments short. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform, stigma capitate or mitriform ; ovules imbricated up- 

 wards on pendulous placentas. Fruit of 2 dehiscent cocci, many- 

 seeded. Seeds small, testa winged, endosperm fleshy. — Species 10> 

 in Trop. Asia and Africa. 



M. parvifolia, Rorth. Obs. Naucl.Ind. 19 ; Havil. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. 

 xxxiii, 69 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, i, 581. Stephegyne parvifolia, Korth. ; Brand* 

 For. Fl. 262 ; F. B. I. Hi, 25 ; Watt E. B. ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 403; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl. School Circle, N.-W. P., 201 ; Collett FL Siml. 227. 

 Nauclea parvifolia, Willd. ; Boxb. ; Fl. Ind. i, 513; W. ^ A. Prod. 391; 

 Royle 111. 238. Nauclea parviflora (misprint for parvifolia) Pers. — Vern. 

 Kaem, Tcangei (Bijuor), Khem (Bundelkhand). 



A large tree, often with buttresses at the base of the trunk. Leaves 

 variable as to size and shape, deciduous, 2-6 in. long, orbicular oval 

 or obovate, rounded at the apex or bluntly acuminate, cuneate rounded 

 or sub-cordate at the base, glabrous or pubescent, coriaceous ; lateral 

 nerves 6-8 pair ; "petioles short ; stipules large, obovate, membranous, 

 pale and often pink-coloured, caducous. Peduncles |-3 in. long, simple 

 or in 3-headed panicles _ supported by a pair of bract-like leaves, 

 narrowed into slender petioles. Beads 1 in, in diam., naauy-flowered, 

 light-yellow or almost white ; bracteoles minute, spathulate, caducous. 

 Calyx-limb very short, truncate or minutely 5-toothed. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous ; lobes 5, shorter than the narrow tube, 

 recurved. Stamens inserted within the mouth of the tube. Styles 

 much exserted, stigma mitriform. Capsule i in. long. Seeds minute, 

 numerous, winged. 



Forests of Dehra Dun and of the Siwalik range and throughout the Sub- 

 Himalayan tract, also in Bundelkhand and Merwara. Flowers from 

 May to July ; and the fruit, which ripens during the cold season, 

 remains for a long time on the tree. Distrib. Dry forests from the 

 Chenab to Burma j Central and South India ; Ceylon. 



The wood is hard and of a pinkish-brown colour, and is used for the same 

 purposes as that of haldu. The bark yields a coarse fibre, and the 

 leaves are used as fodder. 



4. UNCARIA, Schreb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 28. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves shortly petioled, stipules entire or 2-fid. 

 Flowers in globose axillary peduncled solitary or panicled ebracteo- 

 late heads ; peduncles often headless and converted into hooked 

 tendrils. Calyx-tuhe spindle-shaped ; limb 5-lobed or -parted. 

 Corolla-tuhe long, funnel-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, valvate ; throat 

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



