334 Sphenodesme. 



4— 7(— 10) by 1.8— 3.5(— 5) cM.; petioles 0.3—0.5 cM.; 

 panicles large, terminal; peduncles 3.3 cM.. slender, shorter 

 towards the tips of the branchlets; heads with 6, on both 

 sides, especially on the nerves and near the base pubes- 

 cent bracts with a prominent midrib, the middle one of 

 each three 1.9—2.2 by 0.8—0.9 cM., the lateral ones 

 1.5—1.7 by 0.4—0.5 cM., spathulate-obovoid, rounded; 

 flowers 7 in each head; calyx 5-toothed, 10-ribbed, outer 

 side densely with long ferruginous hairs, glandular, inner 

 side minutely pubescent, 0.4 cM. long; coro//a-tube as 

 long as the calyx, glabrous; lobes 5, pubescent without, 

 glabrous within; throat with sparse, long hairs; ovary 

 glabrous in the lower, glandular and villous in the upper- 

 part; style slender, as long as the staitiens, with shortly 

 bifid stigma; stamens 5, exsert, inserted in the throat of 

 the corolla-tube, glabrous; drupe small, capsular, ferru- 

 ginous-villous, included in the enlarged calyx, with 

 crustaceous exocarp; seed 1. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula, P.-Penang. Borneo! 

 (Winkler no. 2314, Hayup, 5. Winkleri Hall. f.). 



3. S. Griffithiana Wight, Ic. IV, III, 14, t. 1477 (1850); 

 HooA:. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 602. — A scandent shrub; 

 branchlets quadrangular, with inflorescences and petioles 

 somewhat pubescent, glabrescent; leaves chartaceous or 

 subcoriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, base acute or subrotundate, 

 apex acute, glabrous on both sides, somewhat pubescent 

 on the lower side of the midrib, axils of the nerves bar- 

 bellate beneath, pairs of nerves 3—4, 6V2~8 by 2—3 cM., 

 petioles 0.5—0.7 cM.; panicles terminal, large, heads 7-flo- 

 wered with 2X3, on both sides, especially near the base, 

 pubescent involucral bracts, peduncles slender, 1.5 cM.; 

 the larger terminal bracts of each three reaching 1.7—2 

 by 0.4—0.5 cM., the smaller, lateral ones 1.4—1.6 by 

 0.3—0.35 cM., spathulate, obtuse, with a prominent midrib; 

 calyx 0.4 cM., 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, hirsutely hairy without. 



