330 Symphorema. 



each three larger; calyx obovoid, shortly 3— 4— 8-toothed, 

 enlarged in fruit; corolla with subcylindrical tube, as long 

 as, or somewhat longer than the calyx, limb spreading, 

 6— 18-lobed, lobes narrow;- stamens 6—18, not always as 

 much as corolla-lobes, varying in number, filaments often 

 connated in pairs for the lower half, inserted in the throat, 

 exsert; style long, stigma shortly bifid; ovary imperfectly 

 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled, imperfectly locellated; fruit dry, 

 capsular, indehiscent, 1 -seeded (by suppression of the other 

 3), included in the calyx. 



Distribution: 2 species in British India, 1 in the Philip- 

 pines! {Engl. u. Prantt). 



1. S. glabrum Hasskarl, Flora XLVIII. 402, (1835). - 

 ?S. Cumingianum Briq. nom. nud. (?) in Engl. u. Prantl. 

 Nat. Pfl. fam., IV, 3a, 180, (1897). — S. luzonicum 

 F. Vill. in Blanco, Fl. d. Fil., ed. Ill, Nov. app. 162, 

 (1877); Merrill, Bur. Gov. Lab. no. 27, 69. — Scze- 

 gleewia luQonensis Turcz. Bull. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI, 

 II, 212, (1863). — S. luzoniense Vidal, Synops. t. 75, 

 fig. 7 (year ?). — A scandent shrub, sometimes suberect 

 or tree-hke, reaching 3— SVg M.; branchlets more or less 

 quadrangular, with inflorescences and petioles grey-tomen- 

 tose, glabrescent, leaves subcoriaceous or coriaceous, ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, base subtruncate, apex acute or obtusely 

 acuminate, margins entire, pairs of nerves 4, the lower 

 two often more prominent and very long; glabrous on 

 both sides or somewhat hairy on the midrib, 4V2— 9V2 

 by 2—4 cM., petioles 0.5 cM.; capitules opposite, rarely 

 two in the axil of the same bract, or supported by the 

 same peduncle; involucral bracts 2X3, each supporting 

 a flower, with one central terminal flower besides; the 

 bracts obovate, rounded, the terminal ones of each three 

 2.5—3.5 by 0.8—1.4 cM.; the lateral ones reaching 1.5—2.1 

 by 0.35—1 cM.; softly pubescent on both sides, with a 

 distinct midrib and some smaller nerves arising from it; 



