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of stem ; branchlets quadrangular, dark grey, lenticellate, gland- 

 dotted. Leaves chartaceous ; 5-foliolate, the middle leaflet longest, 

 the next pair not much smaller, the lowest pair sometimes nearly as 

 long, sometimes reduced, all petiolulate or the lowest sometimes sub- 

 sessile ; leaflets entire, variable, elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -ovate or 

 -obovate, often long-cuspidate-acuminate at apex, attenuate or somewhat 

 rounded at base, the side leaflets usually unequally ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, dark reddish-brown when dry, the upper with white, the lower 

 with yellow glands ; middle leaflet 5 to 7 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad, 

 the rest smaller in proportion ; midrib stout, slightly impressed above, 

 raised beneath ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs curving upwards to and 

 along the margin and joined by fairly regular and prominent transverse 

 nervules; petiole 3 to 6 in. long, terete below and flattened above; 

 petiolule of middle leaflet '5 to 1 in. long, of next pair about -5 in., of the 

 lowest pair to '25 in. long. Panicles terminal, the lowest nodes often 

 leafy, thinly cinereous-tomentose, usually sessile, thyrsoid, reaching 

 12 in. in length and 8 in. in diam. ; branches opposite, elongate, quad- 

 rangular, bearing interrupted pairs of cymules usually -5 to '75 in. long ; 

 bracts or very small ; pedicels very short ; flowers pale yellow with 

 a blue lip. Calyx tubular campanulate, grey-pubescent and glandular, 

 •1 in. long, enlarged and broadened and ribbed in fruit ; teeth 5, small, 

 acute. Corolla-tuhe broadly funnel-shaped, pubescent and dotted with 

 yellow glands without, glabrous within except a row of villous hairs 

 within below the insertion of the stamens ; 2-lipped, the upper lip of 

 2 recurved acute lobes -1 in. long, the lower of 3 lobes, the side ones 

 recurved, obtuse, -1 in. long, the middle one oblong, -15 in. long, villous 

 on the throat. Stamens exserted, curved; filaments glabrous; anther- 

 cells oblong, at first curved downwards, afterwards divaricate. Ovary 

 rounded, glabrous except a few glandular dots ; style slender, thickened 

 above ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Drupe pyriform, depressed at top, 

 sparsely glandular, blackish-grey and wrinkled when dry ; pyrene very 

 hard, ribbed, hollowed at base. Seeds oblong, flattened, -2 in. long, 

 •075 in. broad; testa thin, spongy; cotyledons oblong, -1 in. long; 

 radicle -04 in. long. WaU. PL As. Ear. 15, t. 226, and Cat. 1745 ; 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 686 partly ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 585; Prain Beng. Plants 833. 



Peeak: at Tapa, Wray 197; in hill forests up to 1000 ft.. King's 

 Collector 6034, 7530, 10063, 10377.— Disteib. India (Sikkim, Assam 

 and East Bengal). 



9. YiTEX suMATEANA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 567 (1860). 



Vae. urceolata, King & Gamble. A tree, reaching 40 to 60 ft. in 

 height and 2 ft. in diam. of stem ; branchlets quadrangular, channelled 



