254 VERBENACEH. [Symphorema. 
5-cleft or 6-8-toothed, or tubular-2-lipped with the lips entire or 
slightly 2-toothed, persistent. Corolla tubular-salver- or funnel- 
to obovate, Stamens as many as _gorollatlobes, inse 
us, indehiscent, enclosed in gay somewhat inflated calyx, 
l-seeded by abortion. Cotyledons thick, oily, the radicle short, 
inferior.—Scandent shrubs, with opposite simple leaves. Flowers 
rather small, in involucred small cymes on shorter or longer 'y 
.. often collected into larger panicles at the end of the 
branchlet 
wolucre shorter than the calyces 
Leaves entire, short mentose or Gaescins beneath . S. grossum. 
ok kK ee much longer than the calyces, the leaflets an 
0 
Ovary meee mr more or less pubescent, at least 
ponerse ‘aki toothed, like the inflorescence greyish pubescent 
neath 
. 8. involucratum. 
Leaves entire, ta wy or brownish pubescent t beneath ; inflorescence 
tawny or Pasty pubescent . S. unguiculatum. 
O25 @ | ee vibecadt or villo us 3 leaves glabrous 
so; eymes collected into terminal poe 
Calyx eee eee A corolla-throat ie ous « i . ae. 3s pentandrum. 
glabrous ; corolla. -throat woolly é . . S. Jackianum. 
Ll. Sgr , Kz.—An dieepibedi: “eee, sodtitlant shrub, with 
brown stems, the youn ger parts more or less shortly tomentose; 
leaves elliptically lanceolate to oval and oval-oblong, acute @ 
unequal base, on a puberulous or tomentose petiole 3-5 lin. long, 
acute or bluntish, 3-4 in. long, membranous, glabrous above, 
beneath shortly whitish tomentose to pubescent, entire or obscure 
waved ; flowers rather small, but showy, pure white, sessile, im § 
almost sessile clusters supported by a small inyoluere consisting of 
Meera sd St ea Oey oe 
Has.—Frequent in the swamp forests, along siecle in 
places, not only in the Irr ae valley of Pegu, but also from 
Tenasserim.—Fl, Apr.—s.—S8S.—AlL. 
peeling off in little 
less oa. or whitish stent ; bark eg 3 lin. ticks re 
wali 
elliptical, acute or obtuse at the base, on a pubescent at 
