Peronema.] cxi. VERBENACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 599 



XIX. PERONEIVIA, 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. Calyx shortly 5-fid, not 

 accrescent. Corolla-tube cyliudric ; 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 Mai. Misc. 2, vii. 46, and in Hook. Comp. Sot. 

 Mag. i. 152 ; Wall. Cat. 9057 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 627; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1460; Griff. Notul. iv. 177. C. heterophyllum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. 

 Suppl. 570. 



MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6015). DISTKIB. 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. 

 Calyx 13 in., deeply toothed. Corolla ^ ^ in., pubescent. Capsule -fa in., hirsute. 



XX. SYTOPHOREMA, Roxb. 



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 2- 

 (imperfectly 4-) celled, 4-ovuled; style filiform, shortly bifid. Fruit nearly 

 dry, included in the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed erect, cotyledons fleshy. Species 

 3, a Philippine Island one and the fol^wing. 



1. S. involucratum,, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 46, t. 186, and Fl. Ind. ii. 



262; leaves ovate or elliptic pubescent or villous, corolla \ in. 6-8-lobed, 

 involucre in fruit reticulate membranous. Wight Ic. t. 362 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 199, not of Wall, nor of Schauer. Congea paniculata, Wall. Cat. 

 1739, partly. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA from the Concan southwards, frequent, and in CEYLON. 

 BEHAR ; Monghyr Hills, Hamilton. 



Innovations stellately tomentose. Leaves 2% by 1.-J in., subacute, usually toothed, 

 ultimately nearly glabrous above; petiole ^ in. Peduncles 1 in.; bracts in flower 

 i in., pubescent or villous; in fruit 1^ by in., spathulate-elliptic, thinly pubescent. 

 Calyx in., stellately tomentose ; in fruit in., or more, narrower upwards. Fruit 

 & in., subglobose, nearly glabrous. The leaves on the main branches are often large; 

 the flowering branches often produce only small leaves |-f in. The picture of Rox- 

 burgh shows the corolla decidedly too large, which misled Wallich, 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 had 

 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 III. 1. 173 bis,ftg. 7 ; Ieave8 

 ovate villous, corolla | in. 14-18-lobed, involucre in fruit tomentose. C. 

 involucratum, Wall. Cat. 1740 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 621, not of Roxb. 

 S. involucratum, Kew Distrib. n. 6007. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA in the hills ; Wight, Beddome, &c., extending north to 

 Belgaum. 



