602 cxi. VERBENACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Sphenodesma. 



Wallich. MALACCA; Griffit h (Kew Distrib. n. 6009, partly), Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 1194). 



Leaves 3 by l in., subacute at both ends, above thinly, beneath more thickly, 

 rufous- or fulvous-lmiry ; petiole |-| in. Peduncles |~H in., axillary and running into 

 terminal panicles; bracts 1 by ^ in., spathulate-elliptic, obtuse, thinly rufous-pubescent. 

 Calyx scarcely \ in., densely rufous-hirsute. Corolla % in., blue. Drupe not seen. 

 Schauer 1. c. doubtfully reduces here Viticastrum racemosum, Presl Bot. Bemerk. 

 148 ; but the description does not fit in several points ; inter alia in the 5-celled 

 ovary. 



7. S. G-riffithiana, Wight Ic. t. 1477, text ; leaves ovate or lanceo- 

 late mature nearly glabrate, heads 7-fld., bracts oblong, fruit-calyx patently 

 hairy teeth closely incurved with a narrow horn-like tooth recurved from 

 each sinus. S. Jackianum, Wight Ic. t. ] 477, not of Schauer. Decadontia 

 coerulescens, Griff. Notul. iv. 175. Symphorema pentandrum, Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 255, not Sphenodesma pentandra, Jack, nor Congea pentandra, 

 JKoxb. 



MEBGTTI; Griffith. TAVOT; Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 6008). 



A large, scandent shrub. Leaves 3| by 1 in., oblong acuminate, or 3 by 2 in. 

 ovate, acute, base rounded or obtuse ; petiole | in. Panicles terminal, 12-18 in. 

 diam., leafless (i.e. main bracts caducous), minutely hairy, rufous-villous in the axils; 

 peduncles -1 in., slender, fulvous-pubescent; bracts 1 by in., spathulate-obloug, 

 obtuse, membranous, nearly glabrous ; flowers sessile. Calyx in. ; in fruit \ in., 

 slightly inflated, obconic. Corolla^ in., purple; lobes ovate; throat hairy. Drupe 

 not seen. 



8. P. pentandra, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 19, and in Hook. Sot. Misc. i. 

 285 ; leaves oblong or ovate acuminate mature nearly glabrous, calyx 

 nearly glabrous funnel-shaped shortly 5-toothed in fruit mouth inflated 

 with 5 accessory teeth. Wight Ic. t. 1475 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 181. S. 

 Wallichiana & Jackiana, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 622. S. acuminata, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1476. B/oscoea pentandra, jRoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 54. Congea 

 pentandra & Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 1734, 1735. C. azurea, Wall. Cat. 1733, 

 partly. Symphorema Jackianum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 256. 



From ASSAM and the KHASIA MTS. to MALACCA ; frequent. 



A scandent shrub. Leaves 4 by 1^-lf in., base rounded or obtuse, maturely thinly 

 hairy about the midrib beneath ; petiole in. Panicles 6-15 in., often very dense 

 with heads, sparingly pubescent ; bracts 1 by in., broad-oblong, obtuse, membra- 

 nous, glabrescent. Calyx |- in., in fruit sometimes ^ in., glabrous within ; teeth 

 usually more prominent, sometimes triangular, acuminate in fruit ; accessory teeth 

 only developed after flower. Corolla - in., glabrate without, densely hairy within, 

 purple. Ovary fulvous-hirsute ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe size of a pea 

 (Roxburgh), hairy, half hid in the calyx. In unexpanded flowers the calyx-limb 

 appears obtusely 5-toothed ; after flowering the teeth are sometimes triangular abbre- 

 viated, sometimes lanceolate-subulate, and 5 linear teeth are developed in the sinuses. 

 Wallich declares (in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 286) that Jack mistook his Malacca plant 

 ^for Roxburgh's Silhet one, and accordingly Wight and Schauer call the Malayan plant 

 S. Jackiana or acuminata ; but the calyx-teeth are so little longer, and other points 

 so exactly a'ccord, that the species have been united. 



XXII. CONGEA, Eoxb. 



Large climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite* entire. Cymes peduncled, 

 capitate, 3-9-fld., in large terminal panicles; bracts at the base of the 

 peduncles leaf-like, often white or coloured ; involucres to the cymes of 3 

 or 4 elliptic or oblong bracts, connate at the base. Calyx funnel-shaped, 

 5-toothed, slightly accrescent. Corolla-tube slender, rarely much longer 



