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lin. long, bluntish apiculate or bluntish, coarsely and irregularly 
repand-toothed, membranous, softly pubescent, more or less glab- 
rescent above, 3-4 in. long; flowers small, white, sessile, in 
small clusters supported by an involucre consisting of 6 obovate 
greenish then cream-coloured pubescent blunt leaflets of nearly 
an inch in length or rarely twice the length of the calyx, the cymes 
arising from short shoots above the axils of the fallen leaves; calyx 
greyish or whitish tomentose, 6-8-toothed ; corolla-limb 6-8-cleft, 
the lobes linear-lanceolate, acute; capsules glabrous, enclosed in 
the inflated calyx. 
Has.—Common, chiefly in the mixed forests, all over Ava, Martaban and 
Pegu.—Fl. March-Apr.—s: 1. and 1.—SS.= SiS. All. 
REMaRKs.— Wood grey, close-grained, rather heavy. 
3.8. unguiculatum, Kz.—Ka-nway.—A leaf-shedding, large, 
scandent shrub, with twisted stems as thick as the arm, the youn 
supported by an involucre of 6 spatulate-lanceolate rusty-tomentose 
leaflets of nearly an inch in length, the cymes on shorter or longer 
peduncles and arranged in loose tawny-pubescent panicles at. the 
end of the branchlets ; calyx rusty- or tawny-tomentose, varying 
from 4-5-toothed to 2-lipp ith the lips entire or slightly 2- 
toothed ; corolla-limb with as many obovate blunt lobes as calyx- 
teeth, the throat pubescent ; capsules globular, the size of a pea, 
glabrous, enclosed in the calyx. 
AB.—Frequent in the mixed forests from Pegu and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim and the Andamans ; occasionally entering the drier hill forests up 
to 3,000 ft, elevation.—Fl. Dec.Jan. ; Fr. Apr.—l.—SS.=@ SiS. 
4. §, pentandrum, Kz.—A large scandent shrub, with more or 
less pubescent 4cornered branchlets ; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse or rounded at the base, on a puberulous petiole 2-3 lin. 
acumin 2-4 in. lo chartaceous, entire, glabrous or 
ng, ate, 2- i ng, 
aightly pubescent beneath and bearded in the axils of the nerves ; 
- ec : é 
~Owers small, purple, sessile, in small clusters supported by an 
lnvolucre consisting of 6 linear-oblong or oblong, glabrous, charta- 
céous leaflets of nearly an inch in length ; calyx pilose, Paoh i 
bell-shaped, 5-cleft, the lobes 2-toothed, with a reflexed tooth in 
Sinus ; corolla glabrous. 
Has.—South Tenasserim. 
5. S. Jackianum, Kz.—A scandent shrub, the branchlets pubes- 
