854 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



side ones cordate or rounded or acute and unequal ; the upper surface 

 sparsely hispid and gland-dotted, the lower tawny-pubescent, villous 

 on the nerves and gland-dotted ; margins entire ; 4 to 12 in. long, 

 2 to 6 in. broad ; midrib stout ; main nerves 8 to 15 pairs, curving out- 

 wards to and along the margin and joined by many transverse nervules 

 and reticulations ; petiole 2 to 6 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent ; 

 petiolule of middle leaflet -25 to 2 in. long, of side leaflets none or under 

 •5 in. long: Cymes axillary, opposite, tawny-pubescent, 1 to 2-5 in. 

 long ; main peduncles usually 2, vertically arranged, 1 to 1*5 in. long ; 

 branches 2- to 3-chotomous, spreading, corymbose ; bracts conspicuous, 

 narrowly lanceolate, "25 to '75 in. long, persistent ; pedicels about 1 in. 

 long ; flowers primrose-yellow. Calyx villous, with golden brown 

 hairs ; tube campanulate, "1 in. long ; lobes 5 subequal, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, "25 in. long, conspicuous. Corolla-tvhe slender, funnel-shaped, 

 •4 to -5 in. long, prominently dotted with yellow glands ; 2-lipped with 

 a scanty ring of hairs within at the insertion of the stamens, "15 in. 

 above the base of ; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, the lobes rounded ; lower 

 lip 3-lobed, side lobes reflexed, middle lobe narrowed below, broadened 

 above and fimbriate, twice as long as side lobes. Stamens exsert • 

 filaments glabrous, slender; anther-cells elongate, narrow, parallel. 

 Ovary conoidal on a cylindric base, the top densely yellow-glandular ; 

 style slender ; stigma bifid. Drupe ovoid, black, smooth, gland-dotted, 

 •3 in. long ; pyrene hard, reticulately ridged, with 3 to 4 fertile cells near 

 the top and a large cavity below. Seeds obovoid, slightly flattened, 

 •075 in. long; testa thin. 



Penang : at Batu Kawan, Curtis 395. Perak : at Bujong Malacca, 

 Bidley 9723 ; at Tapa, Wray 1319 ; at Waterloo, Curtis ; Scortechini 

 100, 113, 340 ; in open jungle, Goping, King's Collector 460. Selangoe : 

 Bidley 7595 ; at Eawang, Goodenough 10488. 



This species is very near indeed to V. vestita, but differs in the much larger 

 leaves and the prominent large bracts and calyx-lobes. 



14. ViTEX VESTITA, Wall. Cat. 1750 (1828). A moderate-sized tree ; 

 branchlets rather slender, obscurely quadrangular, softly grey-tawny- 

 pubescent as are innovations. Leaves membranous ; trifoliolate, all 

 three leaflets petioluled, the mid-leaflet much the largest ; leaflets 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminate at apex, the middle leaflet 

 equally acuminate at base, the side ones rounded or acute with more 

 or less unequal sides ; the upper surface sparsely hispid and gland- 

 dotted, the lower softly tawny-pubescent, villous on the nerves, also 

 yellow-gland-dotted ; margins entire ; 3 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 4 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curving upwards to 



