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10. ViTEX PTEEOPODA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 567 (1862). A 

 ti'ee, reaching 40 to 60 ft. in height and a considerable diameter of stem; 

 branchlets stout, pale brown, obscurely quadrangular. Leaves cori- 

 aceous ; 5- to 7-foliolate, only the lowest pair much smaller than the 

 others ; petiole prominently and very broadly winged ; leaflets long, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely dotted and so 

 scabrid to the touch ; margins recurved ; 4 to 20 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, prominent on the 

 lower surface, at first somewhat straight and then curving to and along 

 the margin till they meet, joined by prominent transverse nervules and 

 reticulations ; petiole 4 to 7 in. long, broadly winged, the wings broad- 

 est (1 to 1"5 in. on either side) at a short distance from the base, some- 

 times narrowed only near the top, sometimes earlier and then curving 

 upwards, often cordate or auricled at both ends ; petiolules '5 to 1 in. 

 long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the leaflet blades. Panicles 

 terminal or partly axillary to uppermost leaves, subsessile, glabrous, 

 reaching 1 ft. in length and about 8 in. in diam. ; rachises slender, 

 angular, striate or channelled ; peduncles of all classes, primary second- 

 ary and tertiary, long, ending in few sparse few-flowered short cymules 

 scarcely "25 in. long ; bracts linear, acuminate, '1 to '15 in. long, 

 persistent; bracteoles under the calyx similar but shorter; pedicels 

 or very short ; flowers white with a pink tinge. Calyx urceolate, 

 glabrous, '1 in. long ; teeth 5, acute. CoroZZa-tube short, -075 to -1 in. 

 long, puberulous without, glabrous or very slightly villous within near 

 the base ; lobes short, obtuse. Stamens scarcely exsert ; filaments 

 villous ; anther-cells ellipsoid, nearly parallel. Ovary globose, much 

 depressed, glabrous ; style slender ; stigma shortly 2-forked. Drupe 

 ovoid-oblong, '75 to 1 in. long, -5 in. in diam., smooth, seated on the 

 spreading, much enlarged calyx ; pericarp very thick ; seed 1. 



Peeak : Scortechini ; in dense jungle or low ground near Larut, 

 King's Collector 5249, 6668. — Distbib. Sumatra [Teysmann). 



It is unfortunate that we could only find, in all tlie specimens available, one broken 

 and imperfect corolla. The tree is a remarkable one, and is clearly very nearly allied 

 to V. per-alata, King, but differs in the long narrow leaflets with scabrid points, the 

 glabrous, usually terminal, sparsely flowered panicles, short corolla-tube and smaller 

 drupes. The broad wings to the petioles are much the same in both. The specimen 

 of Teysmann's at Kew consists only of a couple of leaflets about 20 in. long. 



11. ViTEX PEE-ALATA, King MS. in Herb. Calc, Kew Bull. 112 

 (1908). x\ spreading tree, reaching 80 ft. in height and 2 ft. in diam. 

 of stem ; branchlets very thick, angular, striate, dark brown. Leaves 



