602 CXI. VERBENACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Sphenodesma. 
PENANG; Wallich. MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6009, partly), Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. n. 1194). . . 
Leaves 3 by 14 in., subacute at both ends, above thinly, beneath more thickly, 
rufous- or fulvous-hairy ; petiole 1-1 in. Peduncles 4-13 in., axillary and running into 
terminal panicles; bracts by 4 in., spathulate-elliptic, obtuse, thinly rufous-pubescent. 
Calyx scarcely 4 in., densely rufous-hirsute. Corolla à in. blue. Drupe not seen.— 
Schauer l. c. doubtfully reduces here Viticastrum racemosum, Presl Bot. Bemerk. 
148; but the description does not fit in several points; inter alia in the 5-celled 
ovary. 
7. S. Griffithiana, Wight Ie. t. 1477, text; leaves ovate or lanceo- 
late mature nearly glabrate, heads 7-fld., bracts oblong, fruit-calyx patently 
hairy teeth closely incurved with a narrow horn-like tooth recurved from 
each sinus. S. Jackianum, Wight Ic. t. 1477, not of Schauer. Decadontia 
corrulescens, Griff. Notul. iv. 175. Symphorema pentandrum, Kurz For. 
Fl. ii. 255, not Sphenodesma pentandra, Jack, nor Congea pentandra, 
Roxb. 
Mercui; Griffith. Tavov; Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 6008). . 
A large, scandent shrub. Leaves 34 by 1 in., oblong acuminate, or 3 by 2 in. 
ovate, acute, base rounded or obtuse; petiole } in.  Panicles terminal, 12-18 1n. 
diam., leafless (i. e. main bracts caducous); minutely hairy, rufous-villous in the axils; 
peduncles 4-1 in., slender, fulvous-pubescent; bracts 1 by i in., spathulate-oblong, 
obtuse, membranous, nearly glabrous; flowers sessile. Calya 4 in.; in fruit j in. 
slightly inflated, obconic. Corolla j in., purple; lobes ovate; throat hairy. Drupe 
not seen. 
8. P. pentandra, Jack in Mal. Misc. i. 19, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. 1. 
285; leaves oblong or ovate acuminate mature nearly glabrous, calyx 
nearly glabrous funnel-shaped shortly 5-toothed in fruit mouth inflated 
with 5 accessory teeth. ight Ic. . 1475; Griff. Notul. iv. 181. 8. 
Wallichiana & Jackiana, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 622. S. acuminata, 
Wight Ic. t. 1476. Roscoea pentandra, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii, 54. Congea 
pentandra & Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 1734, 1735. C. azurea, Wall. Cat. 1733, 
partly. Symphorema Jackianum, Kurz For. FI. ii. 256. 
From AssAx and the KnasrA Mrs. to MALACCA ; frequent. nl 
A scandent shrub. Leaves 4 by 11-13 in., base rounded or obtuse, maturely thinly 
hairy about the midrib beneath; petiole 4 in. Panicles 6 15 in., often very dense 
with heads, sparingly pubescent; bracts 1 by } in., broad-oblong, obtuse, membra- 
nous, glabrescent. Calyx 44 in., in fruit sometimes 4 in., glabrous within ; teeta 
usually more prominent, sometimes triangular, acuminate in fruit; accessory teet 
only developed after flower. Corolla 4-} in., glabrate without, densely hairy within, 
purple. Ovary fulvous-hirsute ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe size of a pea 
(Roxburgh), hairy, half hid in the calyx.—In unexpanded flowers the calyx-limb 
appears obtusely 5-toothed ; after flowering the teeth are sometimes triangular abbre- 
viated, sometimes lanceolate-subulate, and 5 linear teeth are developed in the sinuses. 
Wallich declares (in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 286) that Jack mistook his Malacca plant 
for Roxburgh's Silhet one, and accordingly Wight and Schauer call the Malayan plant 
S. Jackiana or acuminata ; but the calyx-teeth are so little longer, and other points 
so exactly accord, that the species have been united 
XXII. CONGEA, Roxb. 
Large climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. —Cymes peduncled, 
capitate, 3-9-fld., in large terminal panicles; bracts at the base of the 
peduncles leaf.like, often white or coloured ; involucres to the cymes 0 
or 4 elliptic or oblong bracts, connate at the base. Calyx funnel-shaped, 
5-toothed, slightly accrescent. Corolla-tube slender, rarely mach longer 
