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heads with 2 deeply 3-lobed bracts, which are petioled 

 and bear a flower, attached at its petiole; 1 flower 

 terminal, so that there are 3 flowers in each head; bracts 

 0.5—0.7 by 0.1—0.15 cM.; calyx 0.4—0.5 cM. long, 

 0.2—0.25 cM. wide, shortly 5-toothed, teeth deltoid; 

 outer side densely grey-pubescent, inner side with long 

 upwards pointing hairs; corolla dark purple (bracts and 

 calyx dull red) with glabrous tube and puberulous lobes; 

 throat with a narrow ring of hairs within; lobes 5, 

 rounded; tube 0.6 cM.; stamens 5, exserted, the slender 

 .filaments being inserted in the throat; style slender with 

 bifid stigma; ovary glabrous; drupe capsular, included in 

 the enlarged, ribbed calyx, with leathery exocarp; the 

 bracts of the head with 3 nerves, reaching in fruit 1.2 — 1.8 

 by 0.35—0.75 cM. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula!, Sumatra [?? Forces no. 

 3083, see King and Gamble I.e.; perhaps only at Buiten- 

 zorg, Java, in the botanical Gardens.''! (in H. h. — B. sub 

 no. 908.141—21)]. P. Penang (K. and G.), Borneo? 

 (Clarke in Hook. /".). 



2. S. barbata Schaaec. DC, Prodr. XI, 623, (1847); 

 Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind., IV. 60 1 ; ATmg and GamWe, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 862; Mtqael, Fl. Ind. bat. IL 

 910 - S. ferruginea Wight, Ic. t. 1474, (1850) - 

 S. Winkler i Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 

 86 (1918) — Congea barbata Wall, Cat. no. 1738 

 (1828) — A chmbing shrub; branchlets, somewhat qua- 

 drangular, with petioles and inflorescences densely ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent with simple hairs; leaves shortly petioled, 

 chartaceous, ovate, base cuneate, apex subobtusely acumi- 

 nate, above subglabrous with sparse long hairs, densier 

 on the nerves, beneath more or less densely ferruginous- 

 tomentose, densier on the nerves, glandular, pairs of larger 

 basal nerves 3, the upper pair branching from the middle 

 of the midrib, smaUer, less prominent, apical pairs 2—4; 



