256 VERBENACER. [Symphorema, 
linear-lanceolate, sessile, blunt, h 
tubular-bell-shaped, 10-nerved, 5-toothed, and produced into asubu- 
throat of the corolla very woolly. 
Has.—Jungles of South Tenasserim. 
CONGEA, Roxb. 
Involucre 3-phyllous, spreading, supporting a sessile 6-9-flower- 
ed small cyme. Calyx ar, widene he mouth, 5-cleft, 
persistent. Corolla 2-lipped, the tube as long as the calyx ; limb 
very unequal, the upper lip elongate, erect and 2-cleft, the lower 
spreading and shortly 2-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted 
at the throat and long-exserted ; filaments filiform ; anthers dorsifix, — 
2-celled. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell; 
style capillary with a 2-cleft stigma. Capsule coriaceous, I- 
dehiscent, 1-seeded by abortion—Scandent shrubs with opposite 
leaves. Flowers in small involucred cymes arranged usually im 
terminal panicles. 
1. C, tomentosa, Roxb.—Tha-ma-ka-nway.—A leaf-shedding, © 
large, scandent shrub, the branchlets, ete., covered with a short soft x 
tomentum ; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, on a pubescent petiole 
2-3 lin. long, obtuse or rounded at the base, 4-5 in. long, acute oF 
somewhat acuminate, entire, above rough from short hairs, beneath 
shortly and rather softly tomentose, or rarely almost glabrous 0D 
both sides ; flowers whitish, sessile, in small clusters suppor z 
a pale pinkish or white involucre, consisting of 3 shortly tomentose 
or velvety, oval to obovate-oblong, blunt or somewhat acu leaflets 
up to an inch long ; calyx thickly clothed with long hairs, the — 
segments narrow-lanceolate and acute, or very short an almost 
blunt ; corolla-tube glabrous, or hairy within. oe 
4B.—Common in all kinds of forests except the littoral ones, all over 
Sa from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim—Fl. Dec..Jan—l— 
— oO, 
HOLMSKIOLDIA, Retz. x 
Calyx membranous, usually red, the tube very short, the limb 
large, almost rotate-bell-shaped and spreading, entire or nearly 8% 
