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6. Unona Dasymaschala, Blame Fl. Jav. Anon. 55, t. 27. An 
erect or sariuentose shrub : young brandies sometimes glabrous from 
the beginning, but usually at first softly rufous- pubescent and sometimes 
permanently so. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, oblong, or 
oblong-lanceolate or oblauceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, the base 
rounded or narrowed ; upper surface glabrous ; the lower sub-glancous, 
glabrous or sometimes puberulous on the midrib and nerves; length t o 
to 8*5 in., breadth 1*5 to 3 in., petiole about '1 in. Flowers pedunculate, 
solitary, axillary, pendulous, 1/5 to 3 in. long; peduncles 125 to 1*76 
in, (longer in fruit), minutely bracteolate at the very base. Sepals 
fleshy, very short, broadly triangular, pubescent, reflexed. Petals fleshy, 
varying from ovate-acute to lanceolate-acuminate, concave and (in the 
narrower forms) expanded at the base, with a constriction between the 
claw and limb ; the edgos nnitcd when young, adpressed-pnborulous but 
ultimately glabrous. Anthers with the connective expanded at the apex 
anrl oblique. Ovaries densely villous; the stigma narrow, glabrous. 
Ripe carpels numerous, shortly stalked, monrliform, pubescont to glabrous, 
the joints oval, about *35 long. Seeds oval, smooMi, the albumen with 
fibrous processes. A. DC. Mem. Anon. 28; Wall. Cat. 6421; Hook. fil. 
and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 135 ; Miq. Fl. lnd Bat. I, Pt. 8, 42; Kurz Fl. 
Burni. I, 3d ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, Gl. Scheff. Obs Phyt. Anon. 6 ; 
Nat. Tidsch. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 6 
From Burmah to Singpore; the Andaman Islands. Distrib. — 
Sumatra, Java. 
Var. blumei, Hook. fil. ; branches glabrous ; leaves pale-yellowish 
or grey beneath, glabrous or nearly so. Wall. Cat. 6420 B. (U. discolor.) 
Var. Wailichi, Hook, fil.; branches brown- tomentose j lower surfaces 
of leaves glaucous and tinned with purple. 
This species, iu the absence of the inner row of petals and in other 
respects, resembles M. lo it gi flora, Roxb. ; but the outer petals are neither 
so long nor so narrow, and there appear always to be three of them, and 
not often only two as in Mi hmgijlora. The peduncles are moreover 
shorter. The two species, however, are closely allied. In open, exposed 
situations this is a non-scandent bush ; but under the shade of trees, it 
often developcs into a climber, — a habit which it shares with many species 
of this family. Blume's figure of this plant (quoted above) is inaccurate 
as respects the flowers and fruit. 
7. Unona Wrayi, Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. Plant t. 1553, A tree : 
young branches slender, tawny-tomentose. Leaves thickly membran- 
ous, elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, often obtuse (from tbo breaking 
off of the acumen), slightly narrowed to the rouuded base ; upper 
surface glabrous except the puberulous midrib ; lower much reticulate, 
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