Sphenode*maJ\ cxi. VERBENACE;E. (C. B. Clarke.) 601 



3. S. ung-uiculata, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 623; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate young stellately fulvous -hairy mature glatrate, corolla-lobes 5-6 

 oblong or narrowly obovoid. Congea unguiculata & ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 

 1736, 1737. Yitex involucratus, Presl Sot. BemerJc. 148. Symphorema 

 unguiculatum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 255. Congese sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 91-, 

 n. 1353. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-3000 ft. ; Wallich, H. f. $ T., &c. CACHAK ; Keenan. 

 CHITTAGONG; Wallich. MOULMKIN and TENASSERIM ; Griffith fy Heifer (Kew 

 Distrib. n. 6010), &c. S. ANDAMAN ; Kurz. 



A large, climbing shrub. Leaves 6 by 2 in., base obtuse or rounded, scattered 

 stellate hairs deciduous ; petiole in. Bracts l by in., spathulate-elliptic, obtuse, 

 membranous, whitened, ultimately nearly glabrate. Calyx less than in., obconic, 

 stellately fulvous-tomentose ; teeth triangular, rather rigid. Corolla pale yellow ; tube 

 hardly so long as the calyx, lobes | in., obtuse. Stigma sessile, bifid. Drupe 

 (young) obovoid, glabrous, glandular at the apex. This has larger leaves and bracts, 

 shorter calyx and corolla, than S. astylis. 



Sect. 2. Eusphenodesma. Corolla-lobes ovate or oblong. Anthers 

 subexserted. Style filiform. 



* Bracts of the involucre small, shorter than the calyx. 



4. S. eryciboides, Kurz in Flora 1871,345; leaves elliptic mature 

 pubescent or grey-tomentose beneath, flower-heads nearly sessile fulvous- 

 tomentose, corolla white. S. grossum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 254. Spheno- 

 desma ? Wall. Cat. 9076. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM, frequent; Wallich, Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 6011). 



A large, scandent shrub, or a small tree (Parish); shoots tomentose. Leaves 4 

 by 2J in., subacute, base rhomboid, glabrate above ; petiole in. Heads 7-fld., hardly 

 in. diam. ; bracts | in., round-elliptic ; peduncles numerous, 0- T ' 5 in., bracts at their 

 base caducous, the inflorescence thus appearing a compound spike thyrse, or panicle. 

 Calyx in., broadly funnel-shaped, fulvous-tomentose, densely white-silky within, 

 globular and inflated in fruit ; teeth triangular. Corolla % in. ; lobes 5-6, narrowly 

 obovoid, puberulous. 



** Bracts of the involucre mostly longer than the calyx. 



5. S. triilora, Wight Ic. t. 1478; leaves lanceolate grey-puberulous, 

 panicles compound, heads short-peduncled 3-fld. Griff. Notul. iv. 182. 

 Congea Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 1735, partly. 



PENANG ; Wallich. MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6009, partly), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 1196). 



Branchlets grey. puberulous. Leaves 5 by 1J in., cuneate at both ends; petiole 

 g in. Panicles 9 in. diam., ashy-pubescent ; leaves %% in., half-bractlike ; peduncles 

 to the heads |- in. ; bracts, usually 6 to each head, exceedingly variable in size on the 

 same panicle ; many small, lanceolate, hardly exceeding the calyx, others 1 by 4 in., 

 spathulate-elliptic, obtuse, membranous, reticulate, cinereous-puberulous. Calyx - in., 

 ribbed, teeth triangular. Corolla ^ in., throat hairy, lobes ovate. Style linear, 

 subiucluded. Drupe (imperfectly ripe) in., narrowly obovoid, glabrous, 1-seeded; 

 calyx not inflated. A plant collected by Beccari in Borneo is perhaps not specifically 

 separable, but has the heads shortly fulvous-villous. 



6. S. barbata, Schauer in DC. Prodr. 623 ; branchlets and inflores- 

 cence patently rufous-hirsute, leaves elliptic acute hairy, heads 7-fld. closely 

 capitate. S. ferrugineum, Wight Ic. t. 1474. Cougea barbata, Wall. Cat. 

 1738. V Viticastrum racemosum, Presl Bot. BemerJc. 148 ; Walp. Rep. 

 vi. 691 (ex Schauer). 



