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Corolla-lobes long narrow; style short; anthers in¬ 
cluded; bracts white. (1) S. microstylis 
Corolla-lobes ovate; style long, exsert; anthers 
exsert; bracts green or brown. 
Flower-heads of 3 flowers; bracts small . . (2) S. trifiora 
Flower-heads of 7 flowers; bracts large. 
Whole plant hairy; flowers dark blue . . (3) S. barbata 
Whole plant nearly glabrous; flowers pale bluish (4) S. pentandra 
(1) S. microstylis Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I. iv. 600. S. 
ferruginea Briquet, Engl . and Prantl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3A, 181; 
Gamble, l.c. 861. 
Climbing shrub forming sarmentose bushes; branchlets white- 
tomentose. Leaves chartaceous ovate or elliptic acute, base 
cuneate or blunt hispid above, tomentose beneath, 5*5 in. long, 
2 to 3-5 in. wide; petioles -25 to -5 in. long. Panicles axillary and 
terminal, densely white-tomentose, 12 in. or more long and as 
broad. Bracts of heads spathulate, 6, white, *75 in. long. Heads 
7-flowered; flowers sessile. Calyx tubular, tomentose, -25 in. 
long. Corolla funnel-shaped, curved, -3 in. long, whitish yellow, 
tomentose; lobes 5, 6 or 7, linear twisted. Stamens included; 
style very short. Hob. Open country. A showy bush. Kedah, 
Alor Sta. Perlis, Kanga. Setul (Ridley). Lankawi, Terutau 
(Curtis), j Oistrib. Burma, Tavoy, Siam. 
When dried the white tomentum becomes reddish, whence Briquet’s 
name. 
(2) S. triflora Wight, Ic. t. 1478; Gamble, l.c. 861. 
Climbing shrub. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate acuminate, 
blunt, base cuneate, glabrous (adult), 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 
wide; petioles *25 to *5 in. long. Panicles 1 to 2 ft. long or more, 
pubescent, leafy, lov/er branches 6 in. or more long, spreading with 
distant cymules of 3 flowers with 6 spathulate bracts about as 
long as flowers, brownish red. Calyx tubular pubescent outside, 
villous inside, *1 in. long. Corolla dark purple, -25 in. long. Fruit¬ 
ing head bracts oblong, -6 in. long, brown. Drupes ovoid included 
in the enlarged calyx. Hab. Common in woods, up to about 
3000 ft. altitude. Johor, Mt. Austin. Muar, Sungei Pauh. 
Malacca, Ayer Panas; Merlimau (Holmberg). Selangor, Gint- 
ing Bidai; Sungei Buluh. Perak, Kampar (Deschamps); Thaiping 
(Wray, Kunstler); Jenah (Wray). Penang, Ayer Hitarn (Curtis). 
Lankawi (Fox). Distrib. Sumatra. Native names: Akar Bisar; 
Akar Risa; Akar Meruan; Akar Memali. 
(3) S. barbata Schauer, in DC. Prodr. xi. 623; Gamble, l.c. 
862. 
Climbing shrub, rough brown-hairy. Leaves chartaceous, 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acuminate, base narrowed or 
round, brown-villous sparsely both sides; nerves thickly villous; 
2 to 4 in. long, x to 1-5 in. wide; petioles villous, -2 to -3 in. long. 
Heads in a terminal raceme; peduncles 75 in. long, slender villous, 
