Sphenodesme. 331 



peduncles 272—4 cM. ; calyx 0.7—0.8 cM., minutely 

 tomentose without; with long, silvery, upwards pointing 

 hairs within, with 5(— 6) short, subequal teeth, sometimes 

 somewhat 2-lipped with 2 larger and 3 smaller teeth; 

 coro//a-tube glabrous, 0.65—0.8 cM., lobes glabrous within, 

 softly pubescent without, narrow, 0.35-^0.5 cM. long, 

 0.15—0.2 cM. broad, variable in number, 6—8—12, throat 

 more or less villous; stamens 8—16, inserted in the throat, 

 the . lower part of the filaments often connated in pairs, 

 0.6 cM. exserted; style 1.5 cM., exsert, slender, stigma 

 shortly bifid, the lobes flattened at their apex; ovary 

 glabrous, supported by a short, narrow gynophore, imper- 

 fectly 4-celled and -seeded. 



Luzon: Ramos no. 289, Antipole, Rizal, flow, in Febr. 

 1910. - Com. d. 1. Fl. for. de Fil. nos. 501 and 848, 

 San Mateo. 



XXVI. SPHENODESME Jack in Malay Misc. I, I, 

 19, (1820); Benih. and Hook., Gen. PI. II, II, 1159; 

 Schauer, DC, Prodr. XI, 622; Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. 

 Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 1.80; Hook.\f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 6m: Jack, 

 Descr. Mai. PL, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV, no. XIII, 43; 

 King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 860; 

 Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 909; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. 

 Leid. no. 37, 86. — Climbing shrubs, branchlets glabrate 

 or greyish- or ruddish-tomentose ; leaves opposite, simple, 

 entire; inflorescences paniculate, terminal or axillary, com- 

 posed of opposite branchlets in the axils of leaves or 

 bracts, each bearing a number of paired, peduncled, heads 

 with 2 deeply 3-lobed or 5—6 simple, leafy involucral 

 bracts, and 3 or 6—7 sessile flowers; calyx 5-toothed, 

 sometimes with small recurved teeth in each sinus, inflate 

 in fruit; coroZ/a-tube as long as the calyx, lobes 5, subequal, 

 throat somewhat villous; stamens 5, equal, inserted in 



