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fulvous-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous ; digitately 3- to 5-foliolate, 

 the lowest pair rather smaller than the others, the middle leaflet 

 slightly larger ; leaflets entire, petiolulate, obovate elliptic or elliptic-oblan- 

 ceolate, acuminate at apex often obtusely, attenuate or cuneate at base ; 

 both surfaces grey-pubescent when young, afterwards glabrate or with 

 scattered appressed hairs and a few glands beneath, the nerves beneath 

 pubescent and with tufts of hair in the axils ; 2 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 

 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; main 

 nerves 10 to 20 pairs, regular, slender, the uppermost ones obscure, 

 slightly curved to the margin ; transverse nervules and reticulations 

 obscure ; petiole 3 to 6 in. long, angular, channelled above ; end 

 petiolules -75 to 1 in. long, rest -25 to -5 in. long, angled and channelled. 

 Cymes axillary, corymbose, peduncled, puberulous, reaching 4 to 5 in. 

 in length and 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; peduncles slender, angular, up to 

 2 in. long ; branches markedly dichotomous, spreading ; bracts linear, 

 pubescent, caducous ; pedicels slender, to ■! in. long ; flowers white, 

 the lip blue-purple. Calyx campanulate, "05 to •! in. long, pubescent 

 without, enlarged in fruit ; teeth 5, very short, acute. Corolla-tuhe 

 broadly cylindric, -2 in. long, pubescent without, glabrous within 

 except a ring of villous hairs at the insertion of the stamens, the 

 hairs extending up the midlobe of the lower lip ; upper Up with 2 

 obtuse recurved lobes "15 in. long ; lower lip 3-lobed, the side lobes 

 recurved, '15 in. long, the midlobe spreading, -25 in. long, densely 

 villous. Stariiens much exsert ; filaments villous ; anther-cells short, 

 ellipsoid, divaricate. Ovary globose, pubescent at top ; style slender, 

 as long as stamens ; stigma spreading. Drupe ovoid or obovoid, succu- 

 lent, -3 to "5 in. in diam., smooth. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 695 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 68 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 588 ; 

 Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 208 ; Prain Beng. Plants 833. V. Cunning- 

 hami, Schauer I. c. 691. V. leucoxylon, Schauer I. c. 692 in part ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. II. 273 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 864, 7iot of Linn. f. V. 

 bombacifoUa, Wall. Cat. 1749 ; Walp. Eep. IV. 86. V. pallida, Wall. 

 Cat. 1751. 



Kedah : in dense jungle near sea-level, Kunstler 1763. Penang : 

 Curtis 1071. — DisTEiB. India (Assam to Chittagong), Burma, Java, 

 Siam, Cochin China, North Australia and Queensland. 



13. ViTEX LONGiSEPALA, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 112 (1908). 

 A small or moderate-sized tree ; branchlets rather stout, obscurely 

 quadrangular, softly tawny-pubescent as are the innovations. Leaves 

 membranous ; trifoliolate, the middle leaflet largest and petiolulate, the 

 side ones subsessile ; leaflets ovate or elliptic-ovate, abruptly caudate- 

 acuminate at apex, the middle leaflet acuminate or cuneate at base, the 



