164 VlTEX. 



ones 5-IIV2 by 2-5 cM., petiolules 0.3--1.6 cM.; 

 terminal ones 7—15 by 4—6 cM., petiolules 0.5—2 cM.; 

 petioles 5—10 cM., panicles terminal, 14—18 cM. long, 

 6—16 cM. in diam.; cymes di- or trichotomous ; pedicels 

 short, 0.1—0.4 cM., calyx cup-shaped, truncate, softly 

 pubescent and glandular without, glabrous inside, 0.3 cM. 

 long and in diam.; corolla softly fulvous-pubescent and 

 glandular without except on the lower part of the 0.4 cM. 

 long tube and near the margin of the upper lip; glabrous 

 within except at the insertion of the stamens and the base 

 of the upper lip; lower lip 3 lobed, lobes subequal 0.2 — 

 0.3 cM. long, upper lip usually entire, sometimes more or 

 less 2-lobed, villous at its base, 0.3 cM.; stamens didy- 

 namous, 0.6 cM., filaments glabrous, exserted, inserted in 

 the upper part of the corolla-tube; style 1 cM., with 

 shortly bifid apex; ovary glabrous; drupe 0.8 cM. long 

 and in diam., glabrous. 



New-Guinea : Hellwig no. 390, Kais.-Wilh.-land, fr. 

 on 8-III-1889; id. no. 463, same country, near Butaueng, 

 flow, on 19-III-1889, a shrub. 



New-Britain (Neu-Pommern): Dahl without nr. in 

 H. Ber., Ralum, Lowoa, flow, on 2-II-1897; a large tree, 

 corolla green-yellow, lip violet-veined. 



New-Ireland (Neu-Mecklenburq): Peekel no. 311, 

 Namatanai, Buniah; native name?: burugamata; flow, yello- 

 wish-green on Jan. 10*. 



XVII. VITEX. Tourn. ex L., syst. veg., ed. I, (1735); 

 Blume, Bijdr., 812; Benth. and v. Muell.. Fl. Austr., V, 

 66; Benth. and HooA:., Gen. pi. II. 2, 1154; Blanco, Fl. 

 Fil.. ed. I. 513; Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI. 682; Engl 

 u. Pranil, Nat. Pfl. fam. IV. 3a, 170; HooA:. /., Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. IV, 583; Koord. en Va/., Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 7, 

 198; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 



