CONGEA. 337 



with subulate or shortly bifid stigma; ovary imperfectly 

 2-celled; cells 2-ovuled; fruit a dry drupe or indehiscent 

 capsule, containing one seed, which entirely fills up the 

 fruit, and the rests of 3 abortive seeds; seeds without 

 albumen. 



Distrib.: Burma, Malacca! Sumatra! 



l.a. Calyx 0.7—1 cM. long, corolla 0.7 — 1.4 cM.; heads 



3-4-flowered, with 4 bracteoles within the involucral 



bracts; stigma subulate . . . . 1. C. Forbesii p. 337. 



b. Calyx 0.6—0.7 cM. long, corolla 0.6—0.8 cM.; bracteoles 



none; stigma shortly bifid 2. 



2. a. Leaves membranous, T/s. — 18 cM. long; involucral bracts . 

 often bilobed at apex, densely white tomentose, reaching 

 4 by 1.8 cM., 3-nerved . . . . 2. C. vcstita p. 338. 

 b. Leaves coriaceous, 5^ — 10 cM. long; involucral bracts 

 entire at apex or somewhat emarginate, pink, densely pubes- 

 cent, 1.8—3 cM. long, 0.7 — 1 cM. broad, 4-5-nerved; heads 



7-flowered 3. C. tomentosa p. 338. 



1. C. Forbesii King et Gamble. Kew Bull. 114; (1908). 

 iid., Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, LXXIV, 4, 866. — A climbing 

 shrub; branchlets, inflorescences, and petioles tomentose; 

 leaves chartaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base 

 rounded or somewhat cordate, apex shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, margins entire; upper side glabrous or with 

 sparse simple hairs, densier on the nerves, lower side 

 densely simple-hairy, densier on the nerves, glandular; pairs 

 of nerves 5—7; 7^13 by 2.5—4 cM.; petioles 0.5 cM., 

 heads shortly peduncled, opposite, in the axils of the 

 leaves or leafy bracts, with 4 involucral bracts and 3—4 

 flowers; heads forming together a large terminal panicle; 

 between bracts and flowers 4 linear bracteoles, 1.0 cM. 

 long; bracts spathulate, obtuse, tomentose on both sides, 

 2.1—4 by 0.4—1 cM.; panicles 30 cM. long, 15 cM. 

 wide; peduncles of heads 0.5—0.7 cM.; pairs of capitules 

 2V2— 5 cM. apart; calyx lO-ribbed, 0.7—0.8 cM., often 

 0.9—1.0 cM. long, 0.3—0.5 cM. wide. 5-toothed; teeth 



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