846 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Lake d' Kelsall on Sembrong River, 4069. — Disteib. Borneo {Motley 

 1269; Beccariim-, Lobb, Haviland 1580). 



The name of this plant has had to be changed, as that of simplicifolia was already 

 occupied by V. simplicifolia, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIX. 133, fc. 130 (1875), a 

 Central African plant collected by the Spake & Grant Expedition. 



5. ViTEX coRiACEA, Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. IV. 586 (1885). 

 A tree, reaching 60 ft. or more in height and 15 to 20 in. in diam. ; 

 branches slender with greyish-brown fissured bark ; branchlets pale 

 brown, obscurely quadrangular, striate, puberulous. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, 3-foliolate ; leaflets petioluled, entire, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute at apex, long-attenuate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 upper shining, lower dull, minutely glandular, prominently reticulate ; 

 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad, the midlobe only slightly longer than 

 the others ; midrib prominent ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, curving up- 

 wards to and along the margin where they anastomose, joined by 

 prominent but irregular netted reticulations all raised on the lower 

 surface ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long, puberulous, angular, the apex swollen, 

 petiolule of mid-leaflet about '5 in. long, of the side ones about "25 in. 

 - Panicles terminal, strict, sessile, minutely fulvous-puberulous, reaching 

 6 to 8 in. in length and 3 to 4 in. in breadth ; branches many, elongate, 

 ascending, subquadrangular ; the main peduncles often 3 in. long or 

 more ; the flowers in small often distant clusters ; bracts small, linear ; 

 flowers violet or blue. Calyx funnel-shaped, fulvous-pubescent, en- 

 larged and cup-like in fruit ; tube "1 in. long ; lobes 5, rounded, '05 in. 

 long. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube fulvous-pubescent without except at the 

 base, as also within at the insertion of the stamens, '25 in. long ; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, lobes rounded, very pubescent, ciliate, 1 in. long ; lower 

 lip 3-lobed, midlobe ovate crenate, contracted at base, shaggy- villous 

 within, -15 in. long, side lobes rounded, reflexed, '125 in. long. Stamens 

 exsert ; filaments thickened, pubescent ; anthers curved so as nearly to 

 meet at the tips. Ovary globose, only slightly glandular ; style longer 

 than filaments, pubescent ; stigma bifid, the lobes reflexed. Drupe ellip- 

 soid, very smooth, -5 in. long, -25 to -35 in. broad, seated on the enlarged 

 cup-shaped calyx ; pericarp rather thin. Seed apparently 1 only. 



Kedah : lower slopes of Kedah Peak, Bidley 5555. Penang : 

 Government Hill, Curtis 323. Perak : on Waterfall Hill, at 1000 ft., 

 Wray 2225 ; Scortechini 2082 ; in hill forests, at 500 to 800 ft., Ki^tg's 

 Collector 4388, 4638, 7782, 8135. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 6065,1 ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1203 ; at Ayer Panas and Bukit Bruang, Derry 98, 

 1029. Singapore : T. Anderson 183. 



