844 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



tose. Panicles 1 to 3 together, terminal, oblong -pyramidal, white- 

 tomentose, reaching 12 in. long ; the rachis quadrangular ; peduncle of 

 each branch variable, 1 to 4 in. long ; cymes opposite, reaching 1 in. in 

 length, but usually shorter, brachiate, at first dichotomous ; bracts linear, 

 short, the lowest somewhat leafy ; flowers blueish-purple. Calyx sessile, 

 campanulate ; tube "1 to -15 in. long, faintly ribbed, enlarged in fruit ; 

 teeth regular, acute, "05 in. long, sometimes slightly cuspidate. Corolla 

 •25 to -35 in. long ; tube scaly-pubescent and slightly glandular with- 

 out, villous within at the insertion of the stamens and on the midlobe 

 of the lower lip ; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes rounded, recurved ; lower lip 

 3-lobed, the midlobe much the longest and obtuse at tip, lateral lobes 

 spreading. Stamens exsert ; filaments villous at the base ; anther-cells 

 curved. Ovary rounded, very slightly glandular. Drupe ovoid, 

 depressed at top, '2 in. in diam., slightly ribbed, glandular-dotted. 

 Eoxb. Fl: Ind. III. 70 ; Wall. Cat. 1744 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 684; Wight Ic. t. 519; Bedd. M. Sylv. CLXXI; Brandis For. Fl. 369; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 890 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 583 ; 

 Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 357 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 428 ; PrainBeng. Plants 

 833 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 201. 7. hicolor, Willd.Enum. Hort. 

 Berol. 660 ; Schauer I. c. 683 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201. 7. arborea, 

 Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, 391. 7. paniculata, Lamk. Diet. II. 612 ; Eoxb. 

 I. c. 71. " Lagondium litoreum," Eumph. Herb. Amb. IV. t. 19. "Bem- 

 nosi," Eheede Hort. Mai. II. t. 12. 



Petani : at Tomoh, Machado [Bidley 5813). Malacca: Griffith. 

 Singapore : Bidley 4118. — Distrib. India, Ceylon, Malay Archi- 

 pelago. Eidley thinks it is probably not really indigenous in the 

 Peninsula. 



3. ViTEX holophylla, Baker in Kew Bull. 25 (1896). A small tree; 

 branches with yellowish- white bark ; branchlets also yellowish, shining, 

 obtusely quadrangular ; innovations tawny-tbmentose. Leaves opposite, 

 coriaceous, simple ; ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, 

 rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous, upper olive-green, lower ferru- 

 ginous ; margins entire ; 4 to 12 in. long, 1-5 to 4-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, 

 prominent, keeled above ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs at an angle of 70° 

 with the midrib, curving upwards to meet in an intramarginal looped 

 nerve, all slightly impressed above, raised beneath ; secondary nerves 

 many, irregular; reticulations prominent, netted; petiole -75 to 1*5 in. 

 long, prominently jointed at both ends, younger ones puberulous. 

 ' Cymes in terminal panicles of rather long glomerulate spikes reaching 

 6 to 7 in. long and 3 to 4 in. broad ; densely tawny-tomentose when 

 young, afterwards glabrate ; bracts lanceolate or eUiptic-lanceolate, 

 caducous, -1 to -2 in. long ; bracteoles 2, much smaller; flowers in each 



