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woolly: corymbs ‘paniéled, puberulous: bracts linear, pubescent 
and ciliated. 
. Neilgherries, flowering from March to May. 
(8) V. surescens. ( Blume.) 
Ident. Blume Bijd. p. 655.-—Dec. prod. IV. p. 324. 
‘Syn. V. Colebrookeanum, Wall. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: petioles and corymbs spuriously axillary 
or terminal in very short inconspicuous axillary branchlets: scurfy 
with stellate pubescence: leaves oblong or elliptic, often coarsely 
serrate or dentate, glabrous on both sides: lobes of the calyx oblong 
concave: berries small, red: flowers small, without bracts. : 
Assam. Silhet. Khasia mountains. Flowering in March and 
April. = : 
(6) V. corytirotium. (H. F. § 7.) 
Tdent. Jour. Proc. Linn. Soe. Ii. p. 174. , ; 
Srec. Cuar. Branchlets petioles and corymbs short-peduncled 
stellately-tomentose or somewhat villous: leaves broad, ovate-éore 
date, acuminiated, softly pubescent on both sides: rays of the corymb 
‘elongated : berries sthall, broadsovate, acute, furrowed on both sidés, 
much compressed. 
Khasia mountains. 
(7) V. verivum. ( Wall.) 
Ident. Walp. Pl. As. Rar. I. p. 49.—Dee. prod, Iv. p. 325, 
Engrav, Wall.l.c. t. 61. 
Sree. Cuar. Shrub: branchlets petioles and corymbs and nerve 
of the leaves below scurfy with stellate pubescence: leaves elliptic- 
oblong, cuneate at the base, 3-nerved, coarsely toothed or serrated : 
corymbs composite, without bracts or with 1-4 leafy involuctes : 
flowers small, bracteolate : berry ovate, acute, shining: style sliort, 
broad-conical. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in June. 
(8) V. oporatissimum. (Ker.) 
Ident. Jour. Proc. Linn. Soe. IT. p. 177. 
Engrav. Bot. Reg. VI. t. 456. 
Spec. Cuar.. Glabrous shrub: leaves very ¢oriaceous, smooth 
on both sides, elliptic-ovate, obovate or lanceolate, acuminated, ghite 
entire or serfated: petioles thick: corymb terminal, panicled, with 
thiek few-flowered brachiate branches: calyx-limb cup-shaped, di« 
lated, scarcely lobed: corolla small, rotate: berry ovoid. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in November, 
