16 lxxiv. rubiacejs. [ Uncaria. 
tube slender red, sparsely silky, lobes cream white, oblong blunt. 
Capsule narrow fusiform, i in. long, pubescent. Pedicels *2 to 
*4 in. long. Hab. Cultivated and occasionally remaining in forests 
where the abandoned cultivation has been overgrown. Hab. 
Singapore, Johor, Malacca, Perak. It occurs in the middle of the 
Bukit Timah forest apparently wild, but probably an escape from 
the cultivations which formerly surrounded the hill. It is probably 
not indigenous to our Flora. Distrib. Borneo, Sumatra. Native 
name: Geta Gambir, a perversion of Kate Krambu (Scented 
Cutch). Use: For chewing with betel nut and as an important 
tanning material, cultivated by Chinese. 
(15) U. canescens Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 172; King, 
l-c. 135- 
Slender climber. Leaves coriaceous elliptic to ovate blunt 
short acuminate, round or narrowed at base, glabrous except 
midrib and nerves 5 to 6 pairs on both sides, glaucous beneath, 
3 to 5 in. long, 1-85 to 3 in. wide; petioles 7 in. long, pubescent. 
Peduncles slender, -5 in. long. Heads 1 in. through. Calyx 
•15 in. long, short-stalked, pilose fusiform, lobes broad blunt. 
Corolla -3 in. long, pilose cylindric, lobes short lanceolate. Hab. 
Forests, not common, chiefly in the northern part. Perak, Goping 
(Kunstler). Penang Hill. Distrib. Sumatra. 
(16) U. dasyoneura Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 169; King, 
l.c. 136. 
Branches slender. Leaves membranous shortly acuminate, 
base round or narrowed, glabrous except the hairy midrib and 
nerves 4 to 6 pairs; 3 to 4 in. long, 175 to 2-25 in. wide; petioles 
•5 in. long. Peduncle *2 in. long, pubescent above. Heads 1 in. 
through. Flowers sub-sessile. Calyx urceolate tomentose, -15 in. 
long, lobes blunt. Corolla *45 in. long, tube narrow, cylindric, 
hairy limb campanulate. Capsule fusiform, glabrous -8 in. long; 
pedicels slender *2 in. long. Hab. Malacca (Griffith); Perak, Larut 
(Kunstler); Penang Hill (Porter, Phillips, Curtis). Distrib. Java, 
Ceylon. 
(17) U. attenuata Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 170, t. 34. 
Slender. Leaves coriaceous elliptic, base shortly narrowed, 
tip bluntly acuminate, glabrous above; nerves transverse nerves 
and reticulations hairy beneath; nerves 6 to 8 pairs prominent 
beneath; 3 to 5 in. long, 175 to 3 in. wide; petioles *4 to -5 in. 
long. Peduncles 1 in. long, velvety. Heads 1*5 in. through. 
Calyx short-pedicelled, -15 in. long, red-tomentose, tube inflated, 
limb as long with short teeth. Corolla *3 in. long, slender, lobes 
oblong blunt. Capsule fusiform, 7 to *9 in. long. Hab. Forests, 
Singapore, Bukit Mandai. Malacca, Brisu (Holmberg); Nyalas 
(Derry). Province Wellesley, Nibong Tebal (Curtis). Penang Hill 
and Mount Elvira (Curtis). Tomoh (Machado). Kelantan, Kwala 
Lebir. Distrib. Tenasserim, Borneo. 
