172 VlTEX. 



most leaves, sessile or peduncled, puberulous, reaching 

 60 cM. in length and about 30 cM. in diam.; rhachises 

 angular, channelled; peduncles up to 20 cM. long; second- 

 ary peduncles of branches in whorls of 4 around the main 

 rhachis; cymules many- flowered, 1.2 cM. long: bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, 0.25. — 0.5 cM.. persistent; pedicels or very 

 short; flowers blue with brown markings: calyx pirik, 

 shortly urceolate, tawny-pubescent, 0.25 — 0.4 cM.; teeth 

 short, acute; coro//a-tube campanulate, 0.62 cM. long, 

 pubescent without, villous within around the point of 

 insertion of the stamens and up to the midlobe of the 

 lower lip; upper lip of 2 ovate, acute lobes, 0.25 cM. 

 long, lower lip of 3 lobes, side lobes rounded, 0.4 cM., 

 as the upper lip reflexed; midlobe 0.5 cM., obtuse, all 

 lobes puberulous without ; stamens exsert ; filaments flattened 

 at base, villous hairy ; style slightly longer than the stamens; 

 stigma shortly 2-fid; ovary rounded, depressed, glabrous 

 below, villous at top; drupe ovoid-conoidal, smooth, 

 longitudinally ribbed; 4 cM. long, 27, — 3 cM. in diam. 



Philippines: ? Cuming no. 1698. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula, ? Philippines. 



3. V. cofassus Reinw. ex Bi. Bijdr. 8, 3 (1826); Pulle 

 in Lorentz, Nova-Guinea VIII, 4, 685; Hall. f.. Med. 

 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37. 47; Miq. Fl. Ind. bat. II, 863. - 

 A large tree, reaching 12 — 30 M. in height; branchlets 

 quadrangular, with inflorescences and petioles minutely 

 and scarcely pubescent, ultimately subglabrous or glabrous; 

 leaves 1-folioIate; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, base acute or 

 subobtuse, apex long acuminate; margins entire; pairs of 

 white nerves 8 — 18; chartaceous-subcoriaceous, in sicco 

 usually greyish or greyish brown, (sub)sessile, with a 

 distinct articulation with the petiole; 8—22 by 3V3— 9 cM.; 

 petiolules 0—0.3 cM.; petioles 2—6 cM., in sicco black; 

 upper side glabrous or with some hairs on the midrib or 

 sparsely pubescent, densier on the nerves, lower one 



