866 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Peovln-ce Wellesley : Arakuda woods, Bidley 6993. — Disteib. 

 Tenasserim. 



2. CoNGEA TOMENTOSA, Eoxb. Cor. PI. III. 90. t. 293 (1819). A 

 large climbing shrub ; branchlets densely tawny-tomentose. Leaves 

 coriaceous ; ovate, acute at apex, rounded at base ; upper surface gla- 

 brous except on the nerres, lower tawny-tomentose ; 2 to 4 in. long, 

 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib stout ; main nerves about 4 pairs, curving 

 upwards, joined by many regular transverse nervules ; petiole tawny- 

 tomentose, •25 in. long. Panicles terminal, reaching about 6 in. long 

 and 9 in. broad, 3-chotomous, densely tawny-tomentose ; branches long- 

 (2 to 2-5 in.) peduncled, racemose, bearing pairs of heads on -6 in. long 

 peduncles ; bracts leaf-like, caducous ; involucral bracts 4 to each head, 

 pale lilac, ovate or spathulate, slightly emarginate, densely tomentose, 

 ■75 to 1'25 in. long, -3 to '4 in. broad, with 4 to 5 pairs of main 

 nerves. Calyx funnel-shaped, densely villous especially within, -25 in. 

 long; teeth 5, -05 to "1 in. long, triangular. Corolla-tMhe slender, 

 slightly longer than calyx, glabrous except a ring of villous hairs at the 

 throat within ; 2-lipped, the upper lip long deeply bifid, the lower of 

 3 short lobes, the midlobe the longest. Stamens long-exsert. Ovary 

 obovoid, pjnriform, glandular at tip ; style very slender ; stigmatic lobes 

 2. Drupe obovoid, nearly dry ; exocarp crustaceous, smooth. Seed 1, 

 nearly filHng the cavity of the drupe, with 3 abortive ovules ; testa 

 very thin ; cotyledons thick, unequal, somewhat emarginate. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1479,2 or 1565 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 623 ; Km'z For. 

 n. II. 256 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 911 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br.- 

 Ind. IV. 603. Fuoscoea tomentosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 57. Calochlamys 

 capitata, Presl Bot. Bemerk. 149. 



South- West Siam: at Poongah, Curtis 2903, 2962. — Disteib. 

 India (Chittagong), Burma, Siam. Often cultivated. 



The involucral bracts of our specimens do not agree very well with those figured in 

 the ' Coromaudei Plants,' but they agree better with the authentic specimens. We 

 have not been able to make quite sure whether our specimens belong to type tomentosa 

 or to the var. azurea (C. azurea, Wall. Cat. 1733), but we think to the latter. 



The following species seems worthy of description here, as possibly also occurring 

 in the Peninsula. 



CoNGEA FoRBEsn, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 114 (1908). A large climber, 

 spreading over great forest trees ; branchlets rather slender, hoai-y-pubescent. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at apex, roimded and 

 slightly cordate at base ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the puberulous nerves ; 

 lower surface softly pubescent, reddish-brown when dry; 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib strong, impressed above, as are the 5 to 6 pairs of main nerves which 

 start at about 30'- with the midrib and curve upwards to and along the margin : trans- 

 verse nervules many, horizontal; reticulations netted; petiole -2 in. long, tawny- 

 pubescent. Panicles terminal, tawny-pubescent, racemose, reaching about 12 in. in 



