600 cxi. VERBENACEvE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Symphorema. 



Similar to S. involucratum, but larger in all its parts and more hairy. Leaves 

 4 by 2^ in., some on the main stem 8-9 by 4 in., stellately villous beneath. Calyx 

 in. and upwards in flower. Eracts in fruit 1| by | in., obscurely membranous. 



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XXL SPHENODES1VTA, Jack. 



Scandent, mostly large, shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, shortly petioled. 

 Cymes capitate, 3- or 7-fld., with an involucre of 6 oblong or obovate bracts ; 

 panicled, i. e. the leaves at the base of the peduncles to the cymes more or less 

 bract-like, mostly deciduous. Calyx funnel-shaped, 5- (rarely 4-6-) toothed, 

 sometimes enlarged or inflated in fruit. Corolla-tube short, cylindric ; lobes 

 5, rarely 6, ovate oblong or narrowly lanceolate. Stamens 5, included, rarely 

 subexserted ; anthers ovate. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 4-ovuled; ovules 

 pendulous from the apex of the placentiferous axis ; style filiform, shortly 

 bifid, or (in subgenus Brachynema] very short or obsolete, stigma obscurely 

 2-lobed. Drupe globose or obovoid, small, included or subincluded in the 

 calyx ; 1- (or rarely 2-) seeded in the few (mostly imperfectly ripe) examples 

 seen. Species 9, some Bornean and those here described. 



The cyme in this genus is dichotomous with a single flower in the fork ; the two 

 lateral branches are again dichotomous with a single flower in the fork; the cyme is 

 thus 7-fld.; or, in 1 or 2 species, 3-fld. by the lateral flowers of the 2 cyme-branches 

 being undeveloped. The flower in the principal fork is necessarily the oldest, and 

 ebracteate : hence the bracts are always 6. 



Sect. 1. Brachynema, Griff. (Genus). Corolla-lobes oblong, or 

 narrowly lanceolate. Anthers included. Style obsolete or minute. 



1. S. microstylis, Clarice ; leaves ovate mature softly pubescent or 

 villous beneath, corolla-lobes 5-6 narrowly lanceolate. Brachynema ferru- 

 ginea, Griff. Notul. iv. 176. Symphorema microstylis, Bedd. ms. 



MEEOUI and MOULMEIN, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6007, partly). TAVOT; 

 Parish. DISTEIB. Siam. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. (Parish) ; shoots and inflorescence rusty stellate-villous or sub- 

 tomentose. Leaves 5 by 3| in., subacute, base obtuse, entire, mature pubescent 

 above at least on the nerves; petiole \ in. Peduncle's 1 in. ; heads 7-fld., rusty 

 villous; bracts (at flower-time) f by | in., spathulate-elliptic, obtuse. Calyx in 

 flower I in. or more : teeth ovate. Corolla-tube^ in., narrowly funnel-shaped, densely 

 hairy to the base within; lobes *- by 5 ' c in., puberulous, subtomentose. Anthers 

 ovate, low in the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-ovuled ; style minute. Drupe not seen. 

 Wight, Parish and Beddome have all referred this to Symphorema from the narrow 

 corolla-lobes, but the short filaments will not suit. Supposing the state of the style 

 to be due to dimorphism, the species is distinct and possibly indicates a new genus. It 

 cannot be Kurz's Symphorema involucratum, which Kurz says has coarsely toothed 

 leaves. 



2. S. paniculata, Clarke; leaves ovate or elliptic mature pubescent 

 beneath, corolla-lobes 5-6 oblong obtuse or narrowly obovoid. Congea 

 paniculata, Wall. Cat. 1739. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Kurg, Rottler ; Cochin, Johnstone. 



A scandent shrub ; shoots and inflorescence rusty stellately villous. Leaves 3J by 

 1|~ 2 2 in -> subacute; petiole in. Peduncles }-l in., appearing panicled, the half- 

 bractlike leaves at their base often deciduous; bracts by \ in., narrowly obovoid. 

 Calyx I in.; lobes ovate. Corolla-tube in., densely hairy to the base within; lobes 

 s by 75 in., puberulous, subtomentose. Anthers ovate, low in the corolla-tube. Ovary 

 4-ovuled ; style 0. Drupe not seen. Very near 8. microstylis except as to the obtuse 

 corolla-lobes. 



