Peronema.] cxi. vebbbnacbjii. (C. B. Clarke.) 599 



XIX. FEROKEIHA, Jack. 



A lofty tree ; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, unequally 

 pinnate; leaflets several pair, entire. Panicles in the upper axils large, 

 compound; bracts small; flowers very small. Cali/x -shortly 5-fid, not 

 accrescent. Corolla-tube cylindric; limb 2-lippedj 5-lobed. Stamens 2; 

 anthers subexserted, ovate; cells parallel, snbseparate. Ovary 4-oelled, 

 4-ovuled ; style filiform, subentire. Capsule small, globose, longer than the 

 calyx, 4-valved; valves quarter-spheres, margins inflexed holding the seeds. 

 Seeds pendulous. j 



P. canescens, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, vii, 46, and in JETook. Comp. Sot. 

 Mag. i. 152 ; Wall. Cat. 9057 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 627; Wight le. 

 t. 1460; Griff. Notul. iv. 177. 0. heterophyllum, Mia. M. Ind. Bat. 

 Swppl. 570. 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6015) . — Disteib. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Leaves 1-2 ft., grey-tomentose or pubescent beneath ; rachis winged, leaflets 

 9 by 2 in., sessile, aeutej petiole 2-7 in. Panicles 1 foot, corymbose, pubescent. 

 Calyx j'j in., deeply toothed. Corolla |— J in., pubescent. Capsule ^j in., hirsute. 



XX. SViaPKOREDXA, Soxb. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Cymes peduncled, 

 capitate, 7-fld. ; involucre of 6 oblong bracts, accrescent in fruit. Oalyx 

 obovoid, short 4-8-toothed, somewhat accrescent. OoroZte small, white; 

 tube cylindric ; lobes 6-16, subequal, narrowly oblong. Stamens as many 

 as the coroUa-lobes ; anthers exserted, ovate ; cells parallel. Ovary 2- 

 (imperfectly 4-) celled, 4-ovuled ; style fllif orm, shortly bifid. Fruit nearly 

 dry, included in the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed erect, cotyledons fleshy. — Species 

 3, a Philippine Island one and the following. 



1. S. involucratum, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 46, t. 186, and Fl. Ind. ii. 

 262.; leaives ovate or eUii)tio pubescent or villous, corolla \ in. 6-8-lobed, 

 involucre in fruit reticulate membranous. Wight Ic. t. 362 ; Balz. 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 199, not of Wall, nor of Schauer. Oongea paniculata, Wall. Oat. 

 11^% partly. 



W. Dbcoan Peninstoa from the Concan southwards, frequent, and in Cbylow. 

 Beeab ; Monghyr Hills, Samiltoni. 



Innovations stellately tomentose. Leaves 2J by li in., subacute, usually toothed, 

 ultimately nearly glabrous above ; petiole \ in. Peduncles 1 in. ; bracts in flower 

 J in., pubescent or villous ; in frnit 1^ by 4 in., spathulate-elliptic, thinly pubescent. 

 Calyx J in., stellately tomentose ; in fruit \ in., or more, narrower upwards. Fruit 

 i in., subglobose, nearly glabrous. — The leaves on the main branches are often large ; 

 the flowering branches often produce only small leaves ^-| in. The picture of Rox- 

 burgh shows the corolla decidedly too large, which misled Wallioh, whom Schauer 

 followed. Kurz {For. Fl. ii. 254) says this species is " common all over Ava, Martaban 

 and Pegu," where no one else has found it : it might be suspected that Kurz had 

 mistaken for it some Sphenodesma, but he describes the corolla as having 6-8 linear, 

 lanceolate acute lobes, and the leaves as coarsely toothed. 



2. S. polyandrum, Wight Ic. t. 363, and III. 1. 173 SM,fig. 7; leaves 

 ovate villous, corolla J in. 14-18-lobed, involucre in fruit tomentose. 0. 

 involucratum. Wall. Cat. 174(1; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 621, not of Boxb. 

 S. involucratum, Kew Distrib. n. 6007. 



S. Deocan Peninsula in the hills ; Wight, Beddome, &c., extending north to 

 Belgaum. 



