864 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



long peduncles ; flowers in each head 7, supported by 6 oblong-spathu- 

 late, obtuse, nearly glabrous, bracts "75 to 1'25 in. long, -25 to -35 in. 

 broad, and with about 6 prominent nerves and reticulations ; flowers 

 blue or purple with a yellowish calyx and pale yellow bracts. Calyx 

 campanulate or funnel-shaped, usually prominently 10-ribbed, nearly 

 glabrous, "25 in. long ; when young with 5 short lobes and a mucro in 

 the angles between them, when old with 5 prominent acuminate aris- 

 tate lobes, and 5 aristate teeth in the axils ; reticulately nerved in the 

 upper half. Corolla tubular, the tube '2 in. long, densely villous within 

 in the upper half, glabrous in the lower ; lobes leathery, rounded, -05 

 to ■! in. long, obscurely in 2 lips, the midlobe of the lower lip recurved, 

 the rest spreading. Stamens 5, inserted a little below the mouth of the 

 corolla-tube, long-exserted ; filaments slender ; anthers oblong, the cells 

 parallel. Ovary densely tav^nay-villous ; style very long, slender ; stig- 

 matic lobes 2, spreading. Drupe the size of a pea, globular (Boxb.). 

 Seed 1, conform to the drupe; cotyledons unequal. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1475 [S. Wallichiana, Schauer in letterpress) ; Griff. Notul. IV. 

 181; Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. IV. 602; Briquet in Engl. 

 & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 a, 181, fig. 67 e,p. S. Wallich- 

 iana, Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 622. S. Jackiana, Schauer 

 I.e.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 299. S. acuminata, Wight Ic. t. 1476 

 {S. Jackiana, Schauer in letterpress). Boscoea pentandra, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. III. 54. Congea pentandra and Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 1734, 1735. 

 C. azurea, Wall. Cat. 1733, partly. Symphorevia Jackianum, Kurz For. 

 Fl. II. 255. 



JuNKSEYLON or ToNGKA : Cuvtis. Kedah : Coah on Langkawi Island, 

 Curtis 2522; Bidley 8320. Penang: Wallich 1735,1; Curtis 269. 

 Pkovince Wellbsley : at Krian, Bidley 9391. Peeak : Scortechini 

 519 ; King's Collector (Kunstler) 3100, 4532, 7691, 10642. Malacca : 

 Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1195 ; Cuming 2388 ; Derry 40. Pahang : 

 Bidley 2160. Johgee : at Bukit Songa, Bidley 11122. — Distbib. India 

 (Assam, Khasia Hills, Burma), Borneo. 



14. Congea, Roxb. 



Large climbing shrubs, usually tomentose with mixed simple and 

 stellate hairs. Leaves opposite, entire. Inflorescence of pedunculate, 

 capitate, 3- to 9-flowered, involucrate cymes in large terminal panicles ; 

 the bracts at the base of the peduncles leaf-like, often white or coloured; 

 the involucres of 3 or 4 elliptic or oblong or spathulate bracts connate 

 at the base. Calyx tubular, funnel-shaped, slightly accrescent, 

 5-toothed. Corolla-twhe slender, widening upwards, glabrate without, 



