Peronema, 323 



5 cM.; inflorescences large, composed, terminal, 25—35 

 cM. long, 18 — 27 cM. wide, bracts pubescent, 0.1 cM.; 

 calyx 0.1 cM., almost for Vs 5-toothed,d ensely hairy, 

 glandular; teeth deltoid, reflexed in fruit; corolla pubescent, 

 glandular, 0.2 cM., tube glabrate; 5-lobed, 2-lipped, limb 

 oblique; stamens exserted, recurved along the corolla; 

 style slender; ovary puberulous. 



Malay Peninsula: Ridley no. 3993, Singapore, Bt. 

 Manda. 



Java: Junghuhn, G. Kantjang, Lebak; native name; 

 tjisabrang or ki sabrang, in H. A. H. — T. sub no. 043928, 

 with buds; flow, and fr. in May. 



Sumatra: Forbes no. 2655. — Korthals no. 1360. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula!, Sumatra!, Java!, Borneo 

 (J^ing and Gamble). ^ 



XXIV. PETR^OVITEX ') Oliver in Hook., Ic. PL, 

 XV. 15, t. 1420 (1883); Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pfl. fam. 

 IV, 3a, 179; King and Gamble, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 

 -LXXIV, 4, 858; Schumann u. Lauterb.,~'P\. D. Schutz- 

 geb. Stidsee, 527; Pulle in Lorentz, Nova Guinea, VIII, 

 2, 403 and VIII, 4, 687; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. 

 Leid. no. 37, 84. — Shrubs, usually climbing, sometimes 

 creeping; leaves opposite, usually ternate, sometimes biter- 

 nate, rarely simple; inflorescences either terminal, composed, 

 paniculate, pyramidal, or axillary, cymose or paniculate, 

 with subulate bracts; flowers sm^ll, subsessile; calyx with 

 short tube, 5-toothed, regular ; the lobes in fruit very 

 enlarged, * membranous, oblanceol&te, elongate; corolla 

 oblique, more or less distinctly 2-lipped, lobes 5, subequal; 

 stamens 4, subequal, alternating with the lobes; style 

 slender with bifid stigma; ovary imperfectly 2-celled; cells 



') not: Petreovitex (see under Petraea, p. 25). 



