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and along the mai-gin and joined by prominent rather irregular nervules 

 and reticulations ; petiole usually slender, 2 to 3 in. long, petiolule of 

 middle leaflet 1 to 1-5 in. long, of side leaflets -25 to -Sin. long. Cymes 

 axillary, opposite, sessile, tawny-pubescent, 1 to 1-5 in. long, 2- to 3-cho- 

 tomous ; main peduncles usually 2, sometimes more, one above the 

 other vertically, -25 to o in. long ; branches 2- to 3-chotomous, corym- 

 bose, spreading ; bracts minute, linear, caducous ; pedicels slender, 

 to -1 in. long ; flowers yellow [Kunstler). Calyx campanulate, 

 densely pubescent and gland-dotted without, -1 to '15 in. long, sub- 

 truncate or 2-lipped, enlarged and saucer-shaped in fruit ; lobes acute, 

 short. Cora//a-tube slender, 2-lipped, narrow, cylindric, -4 to "5 in. 

 long, glabrate without and with large yellow glands, glabrous within 

 except for a villous ring about •! in. above the base and as far below 

 the insertion of the stamens ; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, 

 the midlobe slender, hardly longer than the others. Stamens included ; 

 filaments glabrous ; anther-cells elongate, narrow, curved downwards, 

 each ending in an oblong empty appendage about half as long as the 

 cell. Ovary densely covered with yellow glands, oblong, obtuse ; style 

 slender. Drupe oblong, -3 to -4 in. long and -25 in. broad, sparsely 

 gland-dotted ; pyrene hard, reticulately ridged, with 3 to 4 fertile cells 

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

 acute at base, '06 in. long ; testa thin ; cotyledons elliptic, fleshy ; 

 radicle smaU. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 692 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 864 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 272 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 587. 

 V. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6314. 



Penang : WaZZic/i 1750 b, G.King; at Penara Bukit, Curtis 265. 

 Peeak : on Maxwell's Hill, Wray 699 ; Kunstler 176. Selangor : at Bukit 

 Kutu, Goodenough 10547. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6063; Curyiing 

 2351 ; Derry 656, 899. Johoee : at Jafi'aria, G. King. Singapore : 

 at Sungei Jeeroo, Ridley 3867 ; at Chenchukang, Goodenough 2792. — 

 DiSTEiB. Burma, Wallich 1750a; Sumatra, Borneo. 



15. ViTEx GAMOSEPALA, Griff. Notul. IV. 178, and Ic. PI. Asiat.t. 448, 

 fig. 2 (1854). A slender moderate-sized tree; branchlets dark brown, 

 prominently lenticellate, innovations fulvous-hairy. Leaves charta- 

 ceous ; trifoliolate, all three leaflets petiolulate, the mid-leaflet some- 

 what the largest; leaflets entire, ovate or lanceolate, long-acuminate at 

 apex, the side leaflets acute and slightly unequal at base, the mid- 

 leaflet acuminate ; both surfaces glabrate except on the nerves beneath, 

 the lower glandular, brown when dry, the upper olivaceous ; 3 to 7 in. 

 long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, raised beneath ; main nerves 

 5 to 7 pairs, curving acutely upwards to and along the margin where 

 they meet, joined by an irregular network of nervules, prominently 



