362 VerbenaceCE. {Symphorema. 



in close dichotomous cymes forming large corymbose panicle; 

 cal.-tube cup-shaped, limb spreading, segm. 5, broad; cor.-tube 

 slender, cylindrical, lobes 5, nearly equal, the lowest rather 

 largest; stam. 4, fil. very long, slightly didynamous; stigma 

 bifid ; fruit capsular, dehiscent from base into 4 valves, each 

 of which carries with it i seed, which is held by one inflexed 

 margin. — Sp. 3 ; 2 in FL B. Ind. 



G. scandens, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 69 (1885). [Plate LXXIII.] 

 Volkaiiieria scandc7is, L. f. Suppl. PI. 292 . CL'rodendron Linncei., Thw. 

 Enum. 243. G. Linncei, Benth. ex Clarke, Fl. B. Ind. iv. 598. C. P. 1948. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 598 {G. Lmnczi). 



A straggling, sub-scandent shrub, bark smooth, pale, 

 young parts finely pubescent, branches divaricate, occasionally 

 converted into short, rigid, horizontal spines; 1. 3-4 in., ovate, 

 subcordate at base, acute, entire, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent, minutely gland-punctate beneath, venation finely 

 reticulate, pellucid, petiole } in.; fl. sessile, cymes compact, 

 on rather long, stiff, divaricate, pubescent, axillary peduncles, 

 the whole forming a large panicle, bracts oblong, acute, 

 pubescent, passing into 1. below; cal. finely pubescent, lobes 

 broadly triangular, acute; cor.-tube I in., lobes shorter; fil. 

 I in.; style a little longer; capsule | in., clavate-oblong, very 

 blunt, finely tomentose, seed linear-oblong. 



Forests of the dry region ; rather rare. Jaffna (Gardner) ; Anurad- 

 hapura ; near Kalavvewa; Puttalam ; Negombo. First collected in 

 Ceylon by Koenig, ' circa flumen magnum Monesi-moti-Kandel,' whose 

 specimens are in Mus. Brit. Fl. December-March, and July-August; 

 pure white. 



Endemic. 



A beautiful climber over large trees, which it covers with masses of 

 blossom, but capable of growing as a bush. The fruit first splits septi- 

 cidally into two halves, then each half again into two. There can be no 

 doubt of this being the plant of Linn, fil., but his name is not quoted in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



12. SYBIPHOREZaA, Roxb. 



Climbing shrub, 1. opp., toothed, fl. small, usually 7 in a 

 head, surrounded by an involucre of 6 large bracts; cal. 

 tubular, stellate-pubescent, segm. 6-8, toothlike, very short; 

 cor.-tube short, cylindrical, lobes 6-8, equal, narrow; stam. 

 6-8, equal, inserted at edge of cor.-tube, exserted ; o\'. 2- 

 (or 4-) celled, ovules 4, stigma shortly bifid ; fruit dry, 

 enclosed in cal., globose, indehiscent, i -seeded. — Sp. 3; 2 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



