Sphenodesma.]} VERBENACE. 837 
732. Symphorema Roxb. 
Seandent shrubs ; leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers 
in peduncled, capitate, 7-flowered cymes; bracts 6, oblong, involu- 
crate, accrescent in fruit; bracteoles 0. Sepals te a 
omy obovoid, 4-8-lobed, somewhat accrescent calyx. Petals 
6-1 
nnate in a small white corolla; tube ae ; limb 6- 
lobed ; lobes subequal, pa oblong. Stamens 6-16, as many 
as corolla-lobes; anthers exserted, ovate cells ‘pune Carpels 
connate in a 2- alld or iin peat 4-celled ovary ; ovules 4; a 
filiform ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit dry, included in the calyx 
Seed solitary, erect ; cotyledons fleshy. 
involucratun. 
Corolla -25 in. long, 6-8-lobed 
Corolla -5 in, long, 12-16-lobed polyandrum 
1619. SympHoreMA invoLucratum Roxb.; F. I. ii. 262; F. B. I. 
iv. 599; E. D. s. 3042 
Behar, 
A large ¢ . 
1620. SympHorEMa poLyanpRuM Wight; F. B. I. iy. 599. 
Chota N ; Orissa 
A large climber. 
733. goannas Jack. 
at the base of the peduncles big reduced and bract-like, mostly 
— bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in a funnel-shaped, 
5-toothed, rarely 4- or 6-toothed calyx, enlarged or inflated in 
fruit. Petals connate in a short, cylindric corolla ; lobes 5, rarely 
6, ovate- a or narrow-lanceolate. Slamens 5, included, rarely 
style filiform ; stigma shortly 2-fid or obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit 
Small, globose or obovoid dru rupe, more or less completely included 
in the ¢: calyx. Seeds 1, or rarely 2; cotyledons thick. 
1621. SpHEenopesma uNGuicuLaTA Schauer; F. B. I. iv. 601. 
Chit 
mg. 
A large climber. 
