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long and 7V2 — IO cM. broad; densely tawny-tomentose 

 when young, afterwards glabrate; bracts lanceolate, or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, caducous, 0.25— V2 cM.; bracteoles 2, 

 much smaller, flowers in each glomerule about 3 on each 

 side, sessile; calyx campcinulate, tawny-pubescent and 

 glandular, 0.25 cM., with 5 equal, deltoid lobes; much 

 accrescent in fruit, cup-shaped, truncate, 1.2 cM. in diam.; 

 coroWa-tube funnel-shaped, pubescent and glandular with- 

 out, sparsely villous within; 2-lipped, upper lip shortly 

 2-lobed, the lobes rounded, reflexed, lower lip 3-lobed, 

 midlobe long, very villous within; stamens exsert; filaments 

 slightly villous; ovary rounded, villous at top; drape 

 globose or obovoid, 1.8 cM. in diam. depressed at apex. 



Distribution: Sohore (Malacca), Borneo. 



7. V. subspicata Hall. f.. Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. 

 no. 37, 52. — A small tree, 6 — 7 M. high; branchlets 

 stout, cylindric or obscurely quadrangular, pale-ochraceous; 

 leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets sessile, distinctly articulated with 

 the stout and glabrous, 1^-3 cM. long petioles; ovate- 

 lanceolate, base subacute, rounded or narrowly subcordate, 

 apex caudate-acuminate; margins entire, recurved; chartace- 

 ous; pairs of nerves 7 — 10, at an angle of 70°— 80° with 

 the midrib, meeting in a intramarginal nerve; glabrous 

 on both sides; 8^ — 25 by 3 — 10 cM.; panicles terminal, 

 rarely axillary to the upper leaves, decussately ramose, 

 subspicate, reaching 20 — 25 cM. in length; cymules sessile, 

 opposite, few'flowered; bracts and bracteoles small, linear; 

 pedicels short; calyx cyathimorphous, with 5 deltoid teeth, 

 much accrescent in fruit, glabrous; 0.15 cM. when young, 

 in fruit 0.7 cM. long, 1.7 cM. in diam. ; coroWa ochraceously 

 pubescent without except in the lower part of the tube; 

 lobes puberulous on both sides, the midlobe of the lower 

 lip villous within; tube 0.4—0.45 cM., the larger lobe 

 0.2 cM. long; stamens exsert (2 cM.), filaments villous; 

 style longer exsert than the stamens, bifid at apex; drupe 



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