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obtusely acuminate at apex, also mucronate, acute or somewhat rounded 

 at base ; sparsely tawny-villous on both surfaces when young, glabres- 

 cent when old except on the nerves ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; 

 midrib conspicuous, ending in the mucro ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, 

 the lowest pair almost from the base, the next a little higher up, the 

 rest more distant, curving to join in an intramarginal nerve ; trans- 

 verse nervules few but prominent ; petiole "2 to "3 in. long, twisted. 

 Panicles in terminal racemes of heads or in single or few pedunculate 

 axillary pairs of heads ; the heads 7-flowered, each with 6 spathulate 

 bracts reaching -75 in. long and -25 in. broad and prominently nerved ; 

 peduncles '5 to 1'5 in. long, very slender; flowers sessile, corolla blue. 

 Calyx campanulate, "15 to '2 in. long, densely long-rufous-hirsute with- 

 out ; lobes 5, short, triangular, each with often 1 or 2 subsidiary shaggy 

 teeth. Corolla-tvLbe cylindric, -1 in. long, glabrous below, villous in a 

 ring at the throat within ; lobes subequal, '125 in. long, oblong- 

 spathulate, pubescent without. Stamens inserted in the throat of the 

 corolla-tube, exsert ; filaments slender, glabrous ; anthers oblong, cells 

 parallel. Ovary rounded, densely villous ; style slender, as long as 

 stamens ; stigmatic lobes 2, very short. Drupe small, globose or ob- 

 ovoid, included in the enlarged calyx, ferruginous-villous ; exocarp 

 crustaceous. Seed 1, globose, completely filling the cavity of the 

 drupe ; testa very thin ; cotyledons thick, -05 to "1 in. in diam. 

 Wight Ic. 1474 (ferruginea, E.W. in fig. 7) ; Miq. M. Ind. Bat. II. 

 910 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 601. Congea barbata, Wall. 

 Cat. 1738. 



Penang : Wallich 1738 ; at Tulloh Bahang, Curtis ; Phillips. 

 Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 6009,2 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1194 ; Hervey. 



4. Sphenodesme pentandea. Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 19 (1820), and 

 in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 285 (1830). A chmbing shrub; branchlets 

 obscurely quadrangular, lenticellate, pubescent, dark brown. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous ; elliptic-oblong, -ovate, or -lanceolate, bluntly acute or acu- 

 minate often mucronate at apex, rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous 

 when old, the upper shining, the lower pubescent when young ; the 

 nerves beneath generally pubescent ; 2 to 7 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; 

 midrib stout ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, the lowest very thin and close to the 

 margin, the next a little above, curving to and along the margin almost to 

 the tip, the rest more distant, curving to meet in a prominent looped intra- 

 marginal nerve ; transverse nervules many, nearly at right angles to the 

 midrib; reticulations netted, prominent ; petiole '25 to '5 in. long, pubes- 

 cent, channelled, curved. Panicles axillary and terminal, many-flowered, 

 somewhat puberulous, often racemose, leafy and reaching 6 to 15 in. in 

 length ; the capitate heads in opposite pairs on slender -5 to "75 in. 



