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Perak : in dense forest near Lariit, up to 300 ft., King's Collector 

 2944, 3988. Selangor : at Batu Tiga, Bidley 11862. 



Clerodendron Lobbii, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 590 (1885), is a 

 climbing; shrub which, in all probability, does not belong to this genus. Mr. Kidley 

 informs us that it is very common in Borneo, and that he thinks Lobb's specimen 

 must have been collected at Kuching and not in Penang. It is a very handsome, 

 striking plant, and has been cultivated. It has the upper leaves of the spray bright 

 red, flowers of a light salmon-red, and a horn-shaped fruit about 2 in. long. There is 

 a good picture of it in Miss North's Gallery at Kew, to which Mr. Ridley has drawn 

 our attention. 



10. ViTEX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, digitately 3- to 7-foliolate, some- 

 times 1-foliolate ; leaflets usually entire, sometimes dentate, generally 

 petiolulate. Floioers blue, white or yellow, in sessile or pedunculate 

 cymes forming terminal or axillary or both terminal and axillary 

 panicles or corymbs ; bracts usually small, often caducous. Calyx 

 campanulate or tubular funnel-shaped, usually truncate or shortly 

 5-toothed, sometimes bilabiate with 3 to 5 teeth. Corolla small, 2-lipped ; 

 tube long or short ; upper lip usually of 2, lower of 3, lobes, the central 

 lobe of the lower lip much the longest. Stamens 4 didynamous, usually 

 exserted ; anther-cells various, always attached at the tip only, generally 

 parallel at first, afterwards divaricate. Ovary 2- to 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; 

 style filiform ; stigma bifid. Fruit a globose or ovoid or obovoid 

 drupe ; supported by the more or less enlarged calyx ; mesocarp gene- 

 rally fleshy ; endocarp a bony pyrene, normally 4-celled and 4-seeded, 

 but often with some of the cells suppressed, the base of the pyrene 

 sometimes hollowed in a cavity. Seeds obovate or oblong ; albumen ; 

 cotyledons usually fleshy; radicle inferior. — Disteib. About 120 

 species, in all tropical and warm temperate regions. 



Inflorescence terminal, with occasional additional branches in 

 the axils of uppermost leaves : — 



Leaves without wings to the petioles : — 



Shrubs or small trees ; leaves membranous, grey-pubescent 

 beneath : — 



Leaves 1- to 3-foliolate; margins entire; petiole under 

 1 in. long; calyx under -1 in. long . . . . I. V. trifolia. 



Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate ; margins sometimes crenate ; 

 petiole over 1 in. long ; calyx over •! in. long . . 2. V. Kegundo. 



Trees ; leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, not grey-pube- 

 scent beneath : — 

 Leaves 1-foliolate, coriaceous : — 



Leaves 1-5 to 4-5 in. broad, with a prominent intra- 



marginal nerve ; panicle-branches spicate . . 3. V. Jwlophylla. 



