176 VlTEX. 



at apex and at base, sulcate above, 1—2 cM. long; 

 panicles lax, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, terminal or 

 the upper ones axillary, nodes with rather large intervals; 

 pedicels short; cymes 3-flowered, with bracts, peduncled; 

 calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed, 0.2—0.25 cM., minu- 

 tely and appressedly pubescent without; teeth 0.05 cM.; 

 coroZ/a-tube V2 cM., appressedly pubescent outside except 

 in the lower part, villous inside; midlobe of lower lip 

 flabelliform, 0.2 cM. broad, 0.25 cM. long, pubescent 

 without, villous at base within, the 4 other lobes smaller, 

 obtuse, pubescent; stamens hardly exserted, inserted below 

 the middle of the corolla-tube, filaments villous; style 

 0.7 — 0.8 cM. with bifid apex; ovary globose, densely and 

 minutely pubescent; drupe obconical-obovoid, seated on 

 the somewhat enlarged calyx, 1 cM. long, 0.7 cM. in 

 diam., minutely pubescent. 



Distribution: W.-Borneo (Sarawak). 



The species is clearly very nearly allied to V. smilacifolia, but 

 differs considerably in the leaves, the ovary and the drupe. 



6. V. holophylla Baker. Kew Bull., 25 (1896); King 

 and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal. LXXIV. 4, 844. - 

 A small tree; branches with yellowish- white bark; branch- 

 lets also yellowish, shining, obtusely quadrangular; inno- 

 vations tawny-tomentose ; leaves opposite, 1-foliolate, 

 coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acuminate 

 at apex, rounded at base; both surfaces glabrous, upper 

 olive-green, lower ferruginous; margins entire; 10— 30 by 

 4 — IIV2 cM. ; midrib stout, prominent, keeled above; 

 main nerves ?■ — 9 pairs at an angle of 70' with the midrib, 

 curving upwards to meet in an intramarginal looped nerve, 

 all slightly impressed above, raised beneath; secondary 

 nerves many, irregular; reticulations prominent, netted; 

 petioles 1.8—4 cM. long, puberulous when young, pro- 

 minently jointed at both ends; cymes in terminal panicles 

 of rather long glomerulate spikes reaching 15— i7V2 cM. 



