species are remarkable. Leaves 2-4 inches long, 

 1^ to 2 broad. Peduncles about an inch and half 

 long: leaflets of the involucrum imequal: calyx 

 about 2 lines long, lobes slightly cleft at the apex, 

 very hairy externally, sparingly so within. Corolla 

 scarcely exserted, the lobes pubescent without; 

 throat hairy, stamens 5, exserted, apex of the ovary 

 villous. 



leaflets of the involucre unequal, sub-scariose, linear 

 spathulate, obtuse : calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, pilo- 

 so-tomentose ; lobes bidentate at the apex, with a 

 reflexed tooth on the sinus: corolla glabrous. 



Mergui. Griffith. 



Allied to the- preceding (1746), but differs in the 

 involucre and calyx, and glabrous corolla. Leaves 

 3-6 inches long, tapering somewhat towards the 



The analysis of the species is taken from flower- base, acuminate, pointed at the apex, glabrous, ex- 

 buds before expansion, hence I presume the slight cept the tufts of hair in the axils of the veins below, 

 discrepancies between the figure and character. 



In the left hand corner of the plate is an analysis 

 of Symphorema polyandrum introduced for the pur- 

 pose of exhibiting at one view the differences be- 

 tween the three genera, and showing how widely 

 Symphorema differs from the other two, though in 

 habit and general appearance so like. 



1475. Spenodesme Wallichiana (Schauer, S. 

 pentandra, R. W. Ic), ramuli, pubescenti-tomentose: 

 leaves coriaceous, short, petioled, ovate, oblong, 

 obtuse at the base, narrow acuminate, quintupli- 

 septupli-veined; glabrous, shining above, beneath 

 bearded in the axils of the veins: panicles large, 

 bracteolate, leafy below: bracts ovate: peduncles 

 filiform, as long as the involucre, and like it and 

 the flowers glabrous : leaflets of the involucre 

 linear, oblong, sessile, obtuse: calyx cup-shaped, 

 5-nerved, very shortly 5-cleft, truncated, ciliate. 



The drawing was made fi:om a specimen received 

 from the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 



not previously been figured. 



The species has 



1476. Sphenodesme Jackiana (Schauer. S» 



acuminata^ R. W. in Icon.), ramuli, pubescenti- 

 tomentose : " 



Panicles large, brachiate, the branches slender, 4- 

 sided, sides slightly furrowed, pilose ; peduncles and 

 involucre copiously pilose. Calyx sub-tomentose', 

 the lobes bidentulate at the apex, with a minute, 

 reflexed tooth on the sinus (not well shown in the 

 figure). Corolla scarcely exserted, glabrous. The 



drawing of the corolla, being taken from a young 

 flower, may not be quite correct on this point. 



1478. Sphenodesme triflora (R. W.), ramuli 

 glabrous or slightly vellutino-pubescent: leaves short 

 petioled, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, acute, 

 glabrous, or the younger ones almost inconspicuously 

 velutinous, not bearded in the axils of tne veins; 

 panicle large, brachiate, leafy to the last divisions : 

 bracts ovate, and, like the short, rigid peduncles, 

 involucre and calyx vellutino-pubescent: leaflets 

 of the involucre very unequal, elliptic, attenuated 

 at the base, bluntish at the apex: umbels 3-flower- 

 ed! Calyx tubular, 5-lobed, 10-nerved, nerves of 

 the lobes larger; lobes triangular, acute; tube pube- 

 scent within: corolla exserted, pubescent, throat 

 hairy : stamens and style exserted. 



Malacca. Griffith. 



, . , - - , , • This is readily distinguished from all the other 



leaves conaceous, short petioled, ob- species by its 3-flowered umbels. Leaves from 4 to 



long, obtuse at the base, attenuato-acuminate at 6 inches long, and li broad, tapering at both ends: 



the apex, quintupli-septupli-veined ; glabrous, shin- 

 ing above, beneath pubescent, or becoming glab- 

 rous, bearded in the axils of the veins: panicles 

 large, brachiate, leafy below: bracts oblong: pe- 

 duncles filiform, about equal to, or a little shorter 

 than the involucre, and like it thinly sprinkled with 

 hairs: leaflets of the involucre linear, lanceolate, 

 sessile, obtuse, scarcely mucronulate: calyx glab- 

 rous, tubuloso-campanulate, 10-nerved, 10-toothed; 

 five teeth lanceolate, reflexed, 5 broad, triangular, 



acute, erect. 



Malacca. Griflith- 



The bracts of the specimen accidentally taken for 

 xepresentation, had all fallen off That part of the 

 character is however correct, as I find another 

 specimen Quite in accordance with it. 



This is^early allied to 1475, but is certainly 

 distinct, calyx about 4 lines long, venoso-reticulate, 

 5 of the veins supplying the reflexed teeth a little 

 larger, within serieco-villous round the ovary, other- 

 wise glabrous: tube of the corolla as long as the 

 calyx, throat very woolly within, segments spread- 

 ing : stamens 5, shortly exserted. 



1477. Sphenodesme Griffithiana (R. W. S. 

 Jackiana^ R. W. Icon., not Schauer), ramuli 4-sided, 

 sub-pubescent, densely pilose on the joints: leaves 

 oblong, lanceolate, sub-cuneate towards the base, 

 acuminate above, glabrous on both sides, except 

 tufts of hair in the axils of the veins : panicle brach- 



calyx about 3 lines long, when dry of a pale brown- 

 ish yellow colovu*, clothed with short, velvety pube- 

 scence. In the figure No. 1, the pubescence is 

 represented much too long and coarse. 



Congea. (Roxb.) 



When naming the subject of 1479, 1 had not seen 

 Schauer's Monograph. 

 Roxb. and 



He, I find, reduces C. villosa^ 

 C- azurea, Wall., referring both to C. 

 tomentosaj Roxb. I am unable to say how far he is 

 correct in considering C\ villosa and azurea identical, 

 not having an authentic specimen of the former, 

 but I certainly cannot coincide with him in com- 

 bining C. azurea and tomentosa^ which I consider 

 quite distinct, and therefore presume he has fallen 

 into error through the imperfection of his materials. 

 To prevent, as for as I am able, the extension of the 

 confiision likely to arise from Uiis accidental enor, I 

 have determined to give a figure of C tomentosa for 

 comparison with WalUch's C azurea^ the drawing 

 of which is taken from an authentic specimen. To 

 these I add one of what I now consider a new 

 species. The numbers of these two after-thought 

 plates, would necessarily remove them far firom uiis 

 place, but, for the convenience of immediate com- 

 parison, *I shall anticipate their publication, and 

 insert them here. The plants from which the draw- 

 ings are made may be thus briefly distinguished: 



iate, loose, leafy below, bracts lanceolate, acute, C. azurea (Wall.), leaves elliptic, acute, or sub- 

 shorter than the peduncles: peduncles filiform, about mucronate at the apex, slightly hispid above, softly 

 the length of the involucrum, and like it pilose: velutino-pubescent beneath: leaflets of the involu- 



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