336 CONQEA. 



reaching 1.7—2 by 0.4—0.7 cM., in fruit enlarged to 

 2V2— 3 by 0.7—0.9 cM.; the smaller lateral bracts 1.5—1.7 

 by 0.3—0.4, in fruit 2.2—2.5 by 0.5—0.7 cM.; calyx 

 10-ribbed, glandular, scarcely pubescent or subglabrate, 

 5-toothed, the teeth often ciliate, with often a variable and 

 irregular, horn-like, recurved tooth in each sinus, 0.4—0.6 

 cM. long; corolla glabrous without, 5-lobed, throat very 

 densely villous; tube 0.5 cM.; stamens 5, exsert, with 

 rather short filaments; inserted in the throat, the hairs of 

 which sometimes cover also the middle part of the corolla- 

 lobes within; style 0.6 cM., with shortly bifid stigma; 

 ovary densely villous, glandular; drupe in the to 0.7—0.8 

 cM. enlarged calyx, 1 -seeded. 



Malay Peninsula: Griffith no. 6009; Maingay no. 1159. 



Distribution: British India, Hainan {Forbes and Hemsley), 

 Siam {Williams), Malay Peninsula!, Borneo {King and 

 Gamble). 



XXVII. CONGEA Roxburgh. PI. Corom,, III, 90, t. 

 293. (1819); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. pl. II, 2, 1159; 

 Engler u. Prantl, Nat. Pfl. fam. IV. 3a, 181; Hook f., 

 Fl. Br. IV, 602; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 

 LXXIV, 4, 864; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 911. - CHmbing 

 shrubs, usually densely hairy; leaves opposite, simple; 

 inflorescences of capitate, peduncled, 5— 7-flowered cymes, 

 opposite in the axils of more or less small bracts, together 

 forming a large terminal panicle; capitules with 3-4 invo- 

 lucral bracts, which are connated at the base, supporting 

 6—9 flowers; calyx in fruit unaltered, or slightly accrescent, 

 5-toothed; corolla bilabiate, oblique, with slender tube, 

 upper lip erect with two large lobes, lower lip shortly 

 3-lobed, throat usually villous; stamens 4, didynamous, 

 inserted in or somewhat beneath the throat of the corolla- 

 tube, exsert, slender, style as long as the stamens, slender 



