Congea. | OXI. VERBENACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 603 
than the calyx, glabrate without; throat usually hairy; limb 2-lipped, upper 
lip erect-patent of 2 linear-oblong lobes, lower pendent of 3 much shorter 
obovate lobes. Stamens 4; anthers exserted, ovate; cells parallel. Ovary 
imperfectly 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; ovules pendulous from the apex of the axis; 
style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe small, obovoid, nearly dry; in the few 
examples seen 4-seeded, 4-partite.—Species 4, Malayan. 
l. C. vestita, Griff. Notul. iv. 174, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 458, fig. 21; 
branches patently fulvous-hirsute, leaves ovate villous beneath, involucral 
bracts broadly elliptic white-tomentose beneach, calyx white-hirsute teeth 
ovate-lanceolate. 
TENASSERIM ; Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 6014); Mergui, and Donat Range, alt. 
1500 ft., Griffith. 
A large climber. Leaves 6 by 3 in., acute, base obtuse or shortly cordate, mature 
scabrous-pubescent above, villous and tomentose beneath ; petiole } in. Panicles 
very large, bracts like small whitened leaves; involucral bracts 1 by $ in, not 
attenuate at the base. Calyx 1-] in., funnel-shaped, lobed 4 the way down. Corolla 
glabrous without, tube shorter than the calyx; limb 2-lipped, rose, somewhat brown- 
Striated, especially the upper lip (Griffith). Ovary glabrous, glandular upwards. Drupe 
nearly dry, obovoid, 4-partite. 
2. C. velutina, Wight Ic. t. 1479, 3 or 1566; leaves ovate acumi- 
nate mature glabrous, involucral bracts spathulate-oblong distinctly nervose, 
calyx densely shortly hirsute teeth triangular. ` 
, TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Grifith (Herb. Propr. n. 838). Tavox; Helfer (Kew 
Distrib. n. 6012). 
A large climber; branches closely pubescent. Leaves 5 by 2} in., base obtuse 
or rounded, young thinly sparsely pubescent; petiole z in. Panicle large, more lax 
than in C. vestita, closely pubescent, nodes villous; bracts 14 by $ in., obtuse, base 
attenuate, tomentose beneath. Calyx d in., lobed scarcely à the way down. Corolla 
small, tube shorter than the calyx ; limb white, somewhat brown, streaked near the 
base of the lobes (Griffith). Drupe not seen. 
3. C. villosa, Wight Ic. t. 1479, 1, fig. B; leaves ovate or oblong 
mature villous beneath, mvolucral bracts spathulate-oblong, calyx tomentose 
teeth shortly triangular. Roscoea villosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 95, and Fl. 
Ind. iii. 56, and Ie. Ined. at Kew. o. 
p det Rangoon (Roxburgh).  Mzmnavr; Grifith (Kew Distrib. n. 6012, 
ar y). 
A large climber, resembling C. velutina, but the leaves very villous beneath. 
eaves in Roxburgh’s drawing ovate, in Griffith’s example oblong ; glabrate above 
except the midrib. Panicle large, very lax ; bracts uniformly 4 in Griffith's example, 
3 (one of which is often bifid) in Roxburgh’s picture; resembling in form the bracts 
of C. velutina, 
4. C. tomentosa, Rorb. Cor. Pl. ii. 90, t. 293; branchlets tomen- 
tose, leaves ovate acute softly hairy beneath, involucral bracts elliptic, 
calyx Shaggy toothed 4 the way down. Wight Le. t. 1479, 2 or 1565; 
Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 623; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 256. Roscoea tomen- 
tosa, Roxb, Hort. Beng. 95, and Fl. Ind. ii. 97. Calochlamys capitata, 
Presl Bot. Bemerk. 149. 
S Currraaoxa ; Roxburgh. Burma; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6013).—DisTRIB. 
lam, 
y cordate, minutely 
A large climber. Leaves 3 by 2} in., base rounded or shortl attenuated at base, 
Setulose above, closely villous beneath. Bracts 1 by 4 in., not 
tomentose, white or lilac-blue. Corolla white. 
