THE 
3ourn»l of Ph&vm&ug. 
No. 2.] 
FEBRUARY, 1886. 
[VOL. I. 
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NOTES ON A NEW PAPUAN UNCARIA ; 
By Baeon Feed. Yon Muellee, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.E.S., F.C.S. &c. 
Among the plants, recently brought by Captain EverilFs Expedition from New 
Guinea, is one, which in all probability will become of medicinal and industrial 
importance, as yielding Gambir, and it is thus selected for early special notice 
in this journal. 
TJncaria Bernaysii . — Branchlets robust, distinctly quadrangular; leaves on 
very short stalks, rather membranous, nearly ovate, short-acuminate, rounded 
at the base, as well as the branchlets glabrous ; stipules almost deltoid, bifid ; 
peduncles several times shorter than the leaves, their lower joint gradually 
compressed downward, glabrous, the upper slightly downy, also shorter and 
thinner, bearing at the summit very numerous flowers ; involucels extremely 
short, deciduous ; stalklets about as long as the calyces, and as well as these 
greyish-silky ; limb of the calyx deeply cleft ; lobes linear-oblong, nearly of 
the length of the tube while flowering, the inside convex towards the summit ; 
fruit slender, ellipsoid-cylindrical, gradually attenuated at the base and summit,' 
several times longer than the lobes and not separated from them by any 
elongated neck-like attenuation ; appendages of the seeds many times longer than 
the nucleus, one of them simple, the other often deeply divided. 
On the Strickland-Eiver ; Dr. Bernays and Mr. W. Baeuerlen. Leaves, so 
far as seen, to seven inches long and to five inches broad, dark-green above, pale- 
green beneath; nerves about ten from each side of the midrib; veins rather 
distant; veinlets faint. Stipules nearly half an inch broad. Peduncles attaining 
finally a length of two inches ; the lower joint of them flattened, some becoming 
converted into hook-like tendrils. Calyx soon after anthesis about half an inch 
long ; lobes hardly exceeding i-inch in length. Corolla not available,— all specimens 
obtained being past flowering. Umbelliform or fascicular head of fruits solitary, 
measuring about four inches. Pedicels slender, rather longer than the ripe fruits, 
and as well as these sparsely appressed-hairy ; the latter inclusive of the 
terminating lobes nearly one inch long, streaked by longtitudinal nerves, separating 
by tardy septicidal dehiscence into two halves, but not bursting further, unless 
at very advanced maturation. Seeds minute, brown, somewhat rough, very 
much shorter than the whitish narrow appendages. 
Aspect of the plant that of U. pilosa; but the branchlets and leaves of 
that species are short-hairy, the involucels conspicuously large, while the fruits 
are considerably smaller.— From IT. Gambir and U. acida, which are mainly 
those, reared in plantations for obtaining the mercantile Gambir, our plant 
differs in many respects ; and as it is much more robust and in all its parts 
