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24 CONGEA ROXB. [Auctore BAKH]. 



PI. Coast Corom. Ill [1819] p. 90.; Verb. 336. — Roscoea ROXB. Flor. 

 Ind. III [1832] p. 56; ROXB. Flor Ind. Caray ed. [1874] p. 477. -Calochlamis 

 PRESL. Bot. Bemerk. [1844] p. 148. 



Distribution: Coromandel ! Bengal! Burma! Malacca! 



1. a. Involucrum three-leafed; leaflets ovate or broad-eiliptic, 2.5-3 c.M. long, 1.2-1.7 



c.M. broad; calyx 0.7-1 c.M. long; corolla, filaments and style white; a very 

 large climbing or sometimes tree-like shrub; leaves broad-ovate, cordate, 

 10-20 c.M. long, 7-13 c.M. broad; bracts sessile . . 1. C. tomentosa 

 b. Involucrum 3-4-leafed ; leaflets oblong, obovate or spathulate, 1.5-3 c.M. long, 



0. 5-1 c.M. broad; calyx 0.4-0.7 c.M., corolla rose; filaments and style purple ; 

 a stout, extensive, scandent shrub; leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse or slightly 

 cordate at the base, 3-16 c.M. long 2-7.5 c.M. broad; bracts shortly petioled. 2 



2. a. Leaves softly villous on the upper surface, obtuse or cordate at the base; 



involucrum 3- (? 4) leafed; leaflets oblong-elliptical, or obovate-cuneate ; 

 calyx-teeth Lanceolate, acute; corolla glabrous or with some hairs in the 



throat; anthers dehiscent at the apex 2. C. villosa 



b. Leaves shining, scabrid with some hairs along the nerves, or glabrous above, 

 cuneate or rounded at the base; involucrum 3-4-leafed; leaflets long obovate 

 or spathulate; calyx-teeth short and obtuse; corolla exserted, throat densely 

 hairy; anthers dehiscent by a short longitudinal slit. 3. C, velutina 



1. Congea tomentosa ROXB. Cat. Hort. Beng. [1795] p. 64; ROXB. 

 Plant Coast. Corom. HI [1819] p 90 torn. 293; WIGHT Icon. Plant, Ind. 

 Or. IV [1850] p. 15, pi. 1479/2 or 1565.- Roscoea tomentosa ROXB. Flor. 

 Ind. III [1832] p 56; ROXB. Flor. Ind. Carey Ed. [1874] p. 477.— Calo- 

 chlamis capitata PRESL. Bot. Bemerk. [1844] p. 148; WALP. Rep. Bot- 

 Syst VI [1846-1847] p. 691 — A very large climbing or sometimes tree-like 

 shrub; bark of the old branches scabrous and ash-coloured, of the young 

 shoots tementose; leaves coriaceous, broad, ovate, cordate, apex acute cr 

 sub-acuminate; pairs of nerves 5-7, hispid on the upper side, more or less 

 villous or tomentose beneath ; 10-20 by 7-13 c.M. ; petioles 0.5-1 c M.; pani- 

 cles large, axillary and terminal, reaching a length of 15, and a width of 22 

 c.M.; peduncles 1.5-2 c.M. long; involucra 3-leafed, leaflets lilac, oval or 

 broad elliptic, obtuse at both ends, tomentose above, densely pubescent 

 beneath, one of them often more or less deeply cleft, 2.5-3 by 1.2-1.7 c.M. ; 

 calyx 0.7-1 c.M, 5-toothed ; teeth deltoid; inner and outerside long- 

 pubescent ; c o r o 1 1 a white, glabrous except in the villous throat; tube slender, 

 longer than the calyx or subequal, 0.7-1 c.M.; stamens exserted; anthers 

 longitudinally dehiscent; ovary glabrous, glandular towards the top; 

 style 1.5-2 c.M., with shortly bifid stigma. 



Distribution: Goromandel Coast! Bengal! [ROXB.]! Khasya [GRIFF.]! 

 Chittagong [ROXB. ; KURZ.]! Ava [KURZ.] ! Prome [SCHAU.]! Martaban 

 [PRESL]! Tenasserim [KURZ.]! Mergui [Griff.]! Siam [CLARKE; WATT]! 



1. Congea villosa [Roxb.J Wight Icon. Plant. Ind. Or IV [1850] sub 

 C. azurea Wall; Wight 111. Ind. Bot. II [1850] p. 216.— C. azurèa Wall. 

 Cat. 1733 [1828] ex DiETR. Syn. Plant. Ill [1843] p. 619 sub. C. tementosa 

 Roxb,; WALP. Rep. Bot. Syst IV [1844-1848] p. 116; WIGHT Icon. Plant. 

 Ind. Or. IV [1850] p. 1479 A. C. tomentosa ROXB. Var jS oblongifolia 



