Peronema.) OXI. VERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 599 
XIX. PERONEMA, Jack. 
_ A lofty tree; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, unequally 
pinnate; leaflets several pair, entire. -Panicles in the upper axils large, 
compound; bracts small; flowers very small. Calyæ shortly 5-fid, not 
acerescent. Corolla-tuhe cylindric; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 2; 
anthers subexserted, ovate; cells parallel, subseparate. Ovary 4-celled, 
4-ovuled ; style filiform, subentire. Capsule small, globose, longer than the 
calyx, 4-valved; valves quarter-spheres, margins inflexed holding the seeds. 
Seeds pendulous. 
P. canescens, Jack in Mal. Misc. 2, vii. 46, and in Hook. Comp. Bot. 
Mag. i. 152; Wall. Cat. 9057; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 627; Wight Ie. 
t. 1460; Griff. Notul. iv. 177. C. heterophyllum, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 570. 
MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6015).—DrsTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
Leaves 1-2 ft., grey-tomentose or pubescent beneath; rachis winged, leaflets 
9 by 2 in., sessile, acute; petiole 2-7 in. Panicles 1 foot, corymbose, pubescent. 
Calyz ys in., deeply toothed. Corolla d-d in., pubescent. Capsule yy in., hirsute. 
XX. SYMPHOREMA, fozb. 
Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Cymes peduncled, 
capitate, 7-fld.; involucre of 6 oblong bracts, accrescent in fruit. Calyx 
obovoid, short 4—8-toothed, somewhat accrescent. Corolla small, white; 
tube cylindric; lobes 6-16, subequal, narrowly oblong. Stamens as many 
as the corolla-lobes; anthers exserted, ovate; cells parallel. Ovary 9. 
(imperfectly 4-) celled, 4-ovuled; style filiform, shortly bifid. Fruit nearly 
dry, included in the calyx, l-seeded. Seed erect, cotyledons fleshy.—Species 
3,a Philippine Island one and the following. 
l. S. involucratum, Rorb. Cor. Pl. ii. 46, t. 186, and FI. Ind. ii. 
262; leaves ovate or elliptic pubescent or villous, corolla 4 in. 6-8-lobed, 
involucre in fruit reticulate membranous. Wight Ic. t. 362; Dalz. § Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 199, not of Wall. nor of Schauer. Congea paniculata, Wall. Cat. 
, partl . . 
W. Deccan PENINSULA from the Concan southwards, frequent, and in CEYLON. 
Bena; Monghyr Hills, Hamilton. 
nnovations stellately tomentose. Leaves 23 by 1} in., subacute, usually toothed, 
ultimately nearly glabrous above; petiole j in. Peduneles 1 in.; bracts in flower 
Mn., pubescent or villous; in fruit 14 by } in., spathulate-elliptic, thinly pubescent. 
Calyx V in., stellately tomentose ; in fruit } in., or more, narrower upwards, Fruit 
è in, subglobose, nearly glabrous.— The leaves on the main branches are often large ; 
e flowering branches often produce only small leaves 4-3 in. , The picture of x- 
burgh shows the corolla decidedly too large, which misled W allich, whom Schauer 
followed, Kurz (For. Fl. ii. 254) says this species is “common all over Ava, Martaban 
and Pegu," where no one else has found it: it might be suspected that Kurz ha 
Mistaken for it some Sphenodesma, but he describes the corolla as having 6-8 linear- 
lanceolate acute lobes, and the leaves as coarsely toothed. 
2. S. polyandrum, Wight Ic. t. 363, and TIl. t. 173 bis, fig. 7; leaves 
ovate villous, corolla D in. VÍ -18-lobed, involucre in fruit tomentose. M. 
Involucratum, Wall. Cat. 1740; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 621, not of : 
‘Involucratum, Kew Distrib. n. 6007. 
8. Deccan PENINSULA in the hills; Wight, Beddome, &c., extending north to 
Belgaum, 
