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V. littoralis Decne. should be a variety of the present species. 

 Moreover its leaflets have far smaller dimensions. 



4. V. smilacifolia H. H. W. Pearson, Kew. Bull. 59 

 (1907) — A shrub? branchlets, inflorescences and petioles 

 glabrous, nodes increased, bark yellow or greyish- white; 

 leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets sessile, efliptical-oblong, base 

 rotundate, apex acute, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, 

 coriaceous, entire, glabrous on both sides, with 3-4 nerves 

 on either side of the midrib; 12^ — 20 by 4^ — 8 cM.; petioles 

 stout, increased at both sides, 1—2 cM. long; cymes few 

 flowered, opposite, in large, terminal panicles; panicles lax, 

 more or less leafed below, reaching 25^ — 30 cM in length, 

 20 — 23 cM. in diam., bracts small; pedicels very short; 

 calyx campanulate, with 5 very small teeth, 0.15^ — 0.2 cM. 

 long, 0.2 cM. in diam., glandular on both sides; teeth 

 ciliolated; fruiting calyx enlarged up to 0.6 cM; corolla- 

 tube 0.4—0.6 cM., with peltate glands without, except in 

 the lower part, glabrous within except for the villous 

 throat; lobes glandular on both sides, the larger one 

 0.25—0.3 cM. broad; stamens hardly exserted, inserted 

 below the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments villous at 

 base; style 0.6 cM., bifid at apex; ovary globose, densely 

 glandular-dotted; drupe iripe?) black, glandular, 0.4 cM. 

 long, 0.3 cM. in diam. 



Borneo: ?! HalUerf. no, B. 219, W.-Borneo, on Kapuas- 

 river, upstream Suka Lanting; flowers bright-blue. 

 Distribution: Sarawak (N .-W.-Borneo). 



5. V. sarawakana H. H. W. Pearson, Kew Bull., 60 

 (1907). — A shrub?; branchlets quadrangular, with petioles 

 glabrous; nodes increased; bark cinereous, dissolved into 

 thin lamels; leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets sessile, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, base rotundate or subcuneate, apex sub- 

 acute or acuminate, thin-coriaceous, entire, bullate above, 

 glabrous on both sides, with 6 — 10 nerves on either side 

 of the midrib, 10—15 by 2—6 cM.; petioles increased 



