bracteole below the middle) thickening when in fruit and lonticcllafe. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, spreading, nearly glabrous, "4 to *G in. long. 
Petals roriaeeous, narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 2*5 in. long 1 , glabrous or 
sparsely ail pressed-si-riceous. O caries oblong, hairy. Sfi-jnia laterally 
grooved. Ripe carpels numerous, stalked, '75 to 1'5 in. long, glabrous or 
pubescent, the constrictions between the 2 to 5 oval joints pubescent; 
stalks -25 in. long. Dunal Anon. Ill ; DC. Prodr. i. 91 ; Wall. Cat. 
6420 (partly) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 669 ; W. & A. Prodr. 9 ; H. f. A T. 
Fl. Ind. 133 j Miq. PI. Ind Bat. t, Pt. 2, 41 ; Beddome Ic. PI. Ind Or. 
t. 51 ; Bl. FL Javeo Anon. 53 ; A. DC. Mem. 28 ; W. and A. Prod. 9 j 
Thwaites Enum. 9; Kurz For. Fl. Ind. Burm. I. 34; Hook. SI Fl. Ind. 
I, 59. Schoff. Obs. Phyt. Anon. 5. Nat. Tidsch. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 5. 
U. cordifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 602 ? U. Dunalii, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 
131 (the Concan plant) ; Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 3 (not of Wallich). 
U. Amherstianaj A. DC. Mem. 28. U. biglandulosa, Bl. Bijdr. 1G. U. 
Roxburtjhiana, Wall. Cat. 6423 B. U. Lesser I iaita, Dunal Anon. 107. 
t. 26 ; DC. Prod. I, 90. Desmos cki?iensis Lour. Fl. Cocb. Ch. 1, 352. 
Of this variable and abundant species, Sir Joseph Hooker distin- 
guishes four varieties as follows : — 
Var. 1, pubijlora ; leaves 5-7 in., oblong acute, base often cordate, 
flowers silky. 
Var. 2, laevigata ; leaves 3-4 in., oblong or lanceolate, acute, base 
rounded, flowers almost glabrous, — U. chinensis, DC. Prodr. i. 90. U. 
unduhtfa, Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. and 42. U* discolor ', Dalz and Gibs, 
Fl. Bo tub. 8. t, 266 ; Wall. Cat. 6428. — Perhaps cultivated only in India, 
common in the Archipelago and China. 
Var. 3, pnbescens ; leaves as in I, but densely pubescent beneath. 
Var. 4, latifolia ; leaves 3-5 by 2-2| in , broad-oval, acute flowers 
silky. U. discolor and var. b, bracteata BL Fl. Jav. Anon. 53, t. 26 
and 31A. 
From the base of the eastern Himalaya through the Assam range 
to Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula ; in tropical forests. Distrib. 
The Malayan Archipelago, Chinese Mountains. 
4. Unona dumosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 670. A large bushy climber : 
young branches slender, softly rufous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, 
broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, obovate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 
sub-acute or broadly mucronate, the base rounded or sub-cordate, or 
sub-cuneato ; when young rufous-tomentose on both surfaces ; the upper 
excopt the midrib glabrcsccnt when old : main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 
sub-ascending, rather straight; length 2 to 525 in, breadth 125 to 
2*5 in. ; petiole '15 in., to 3 in., rufous-tomentose. Flowers solitary, leaf- 
opposed or extra-axillary, 2 to 2'5 in. long ; pedicels 5 to 75 in. long, 
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