Sphenodesme. 335 



minutely pubescent within, the teeth deltoid, 0.1 cM., clo- 

 sely incurved, with a narrow horn-like tooth recurved 

 from each sinus; corolla glabrous without, purple, 0.5 cM.,. 

 with 5 ovate lobes and a slightly villous throat; stamens 

 5, inserted in the throat; style short in the bud, with 

 shortly bifid stigma; ovary densely villous, glandular; drupe 

 not seen. 



Malay Peninsula: Griffith no. 6008. 



Distribution: British India (Clarke in Hook, f.), Malay 

 Peninsula ! 



4. S. pcntandra /acfc in Malay Misc. I, I, 19, (1820); 

 Forbes and Hemsley, Fl. Sin., II, 265; Hook, f., Fl. Br. 

 Ind. IV, 602; Jack, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, no. XIII, 

 43; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., LXXIV, 



4, 863. — S. acuminata Wight, Ic. t. 1476, (1850). — 



5. Jackiana Schaa. DC. Prodr. XI, 622, (1847); 

 Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. II, T. V, 432; Miquel, 

 Fl. Ind. bat. II, 909. - S. Wallichiana Schau. DC, 

 Prodr. XI, 622. — Congea azurea Wall., Cat. no. 

 1733 (1828). ^ C. Jackiana Wall, Cat. no. 1735. — 

 C. pentandra Wall., Cat. no. 1734. — Roscoea 

 pentandra Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 54, (1832). — Symphorema 

 Jackianum Kurz.. For. Fl., II, 255, (1877). — A clim- 

 bing shrub; branchlets obtusely quadrangular, sparsely 

 hairy or subglabrate, densier near the nodes; petioles and 

 inflorescences scarcely hairy; leaves chartaceous, lanceolate- 

 oblong, base subrotundate, apex acute, sometimes somewhat 

 mucronate, glabrous on both sides, the midrib somewhat 

 hairy and the axils of the nerves barbellate beneath; 

 pairs of nerves 4; 6V2— 8 cM. long, 3—372 cM. broad, 

 petioles 0.5 cM.; panicles axillary and terminal, large, 

 heads on slender, 1.6—2.8 cM. long peduncles, 7-flowered, 

 with 2X3 lanceolate, obtuse-acuminate, sometimes minu- 

 tely acuminate, glabrate and near the base somewhat 

 pubescent bracts, the larger terminal ones of each three 



