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lanceolate, base acute, apex obtusely acuminate, glabrous 

 above or with some hairs and little scales, beneath glabrous, 

 with reddish glands, sometimes somewhat hairy on the 

 nerves; pairs of nerves 8 — 12; 8 — 17 by 4 — 6 cM., 

 petiolules 1— 2V2 cM.; petioles 7— 91/2 (—11, Merrill) cM.; 

 panicles large, leafed in the lower part, 18 cM. long, 

 24 cM. wide; calyx 0.25 cM., ferruginous-pubescent without, 

 subtruncate or hardly, indistinctly 5-denticulate ; corolla 

 yellow {Merrill), with cylindric tube, lower part glabrous, 

 upper part with lobes, except the margin of the larger 

 lobe, pubescent, glandular, 0.5 cM.; lobes 4, the smaller' 

 ones 0.2 (lower lip), the larger one (upper lip) 0.25 cM. 

 long; glabrous within; tube villous within near the insertion 

 of the stamens; stamens 4, didynamous, 0.45 and 0.4 cM. 

 long, inserted in the middle part of the corolla-tube, 

 filaments villous at- the base; style 0.6 cM., stigma shortly 

 bifid; ovary broadly pyriform, glabrous, 2-celled, cells, 

 when young imperfectly, ultimately perfectly 4-locellated, 

 2-ovuled, without central cavity. 



Luzon: Ramos no. 382, Antipolo, Rizal, flow, in June 

 1910. — Cuming nos. 1172 and 1294 (Premna philip- 

 p in ens is Turcz.), auth. spec. 



2. V. Novee-Pommeraniae (Warb.) H. J. Lam, nov. 

 comb. — Vitex Novae-Pommer aniae Warb. Engl. 

 Jhrb. XIII, 428 (1891) and XVIII, 208; K. Schum. u. 

 Lauterb., Fl. D. Sudsee, 524. — A shrub (Hellwig) or 

 large tree {Daht); branchlets quadrangular, with petioles 

 and inflorescences minutely greyish tomentose; leaves 

 3-5-foliolate, very rarely 6-foliolate ; leaflets thinly charta- 

 ceous, ovate or obovate-oblong, margins entire, base often 

 unequal, obtuse or subtruncate, apey acuminate; pairs of 

 nerves 8—11; upper surface glabrous or with some hairs 

 on the midrib, with minute scales, lower glabrous, glandular, 

 on and near midrib pubescent; lowest leaflets, if present, 

 31/2^81/2 by IV2— 4 cM., petiolules 0.2— 0.8 cM.; lateral 



