Glossocarya.] cvn. VerbeNace^B. 637 
tip round, pubescent, -25 in. long. Hob. Open country, local. 
Perils, Besih Hangat near Kanga (Ridley). 
12 . PETRflEOVITEX, Oliver 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves simple or trifoliate (or bipinnate). 
Cymes terminal or axillary puberulous spreading. Flowers very 
small. Calyx short, campanulate, much accrescent after flowering, 
then tube elongate, lobes forming oblanceolate papery wings. 
Corolla obliquely 2-lipped, lobes blunt incurved. Stamens 4. 
Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled. Fruit capsular, oblong 
or cuneate. Species 4 or 5, Malay Peninsula and islands. 
Pubescent; leaves trifoliate . . . . (1) P. Scortechinii 
Glabrous; leaves 1-to 3-foliate .... (2) P. bambusetorum 
(1) P. Scortechinii King and Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1908, 
p. 113; Gamble, Journ. ; 4 s. Soc. Beng., l.c. 858. 
Branches angled, puberulous. Leaves trifoliate membranous 
ovate sub-acute, base round or cuneate (central one) sub-cordate, 
side ones pubescent both sides; nerves 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide ; 
petioles 1-5 to 2 in. long. Cymes pubescent, panicled, up to 6 in. 
long. Calyx deeply 4- to 5-lobed, lobes obovate, -25 in. long, in 
fruit, tube -25 in. long (enclosing fruit), lobes elliptic-oblong, 75 to 
1 in. long. Corolla very small, lobes spathulate. Stamens exsert, 
2 lower longer than upper. Capsule oblong or cuneate. Hob. 
Perak (Scortechini). Very rare. 
(2) P. bambusetorum King and Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1908, 
p. 113; Gamble, Journ. /Is. Soe. Beng., l.c. 859. 
Woody glabrous climber. Leaves sub-coriaceous 1 to 3 foliate, 
ovate acuminate, nerves 8 pairs, base round or short, cuneate, 3 to 4 
in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles 1 to 2 in. long. Cymes in axillary 
panicles thyrsoid, 4 to 5 in. long; rachis very slender. Calyx 
very small, -05 in. long, in fruit tube -25 to -35 in. long, ribbed, 
lobes -4 to -5 in. long. Corolla very small, glabrous, upper lip 
slightly bilobed, lower 3-lobed, greenish yellow. Fruit wedge- 
shaped. Hab. Rare. In dense bamboo forests, Perak, Ulu 
Kerling (Kunstler). Distrib. Borneo. 
13 . SPHENODESME, Jack 
Climbing bushy shrubs. Leaves entire. Inflorescence of 3- to 
7-flowered heads surrounded by 6 large bracts, in pairs on a large 
terminal panicle. Calyx campanulate enlarging in fruit, teeth 
5. Corolla small bluish sub-regular; tube short, cylindric; lobes 
5 or 6, imbricate. Stamens 5, insert in corolla-tube. Ovary 
2-celled, cells 2-ovuled; style filiform; stigma bifid. Drupe 
globose or obovoid, included in calyx, 1- rarely 2-seeded; endocarp 
leathery. Seed globose. Species 10, Indo-Malaya. 
