178 VlTEX. 



globose, for Vs included in the enlarged, cup-shaped 

 calyx, 1.3 — 1.7 cM. long and in diam. 



Distribution: Sumatra, Borneo. (W.- and S.-E.-) 



The species is closely allied to , V. Hollrangii, but according 

 to Hallier, it can be distinguished by the more increased 

 articulation of its leaflets, the subbullate laminae and the sub- 

 spicate branchlets of the panicles. 



8. V. Clarkeana King et Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, LXXIV, 4. 845 (1909). - V. simplicifolia 

 Clarke in Hook f.,Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 586 (1885). — A small, 

 shrubby tree, reaching about 5 M. in height; branchlets 

 pale brown, round, glabrous or puberulous; leaves 1 -folio- 

 late; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, both surfaces 

 glabrous, greyish when dry, the lower puncticulate; margins 

 entire, recurved; 15—30 by 5 — /Vs cM.; midrib stout, 

 very prominently raised beneath; pairs of nerves 12—20, 

 slightly curving to near the margin, where they bend 

 sharply parallel to it, all but the few lowest joining in 

 an intramarginal looped nerve; petioles 1.2^ — 1.8 cM., 

 jointed at the base of the leaflet; panicles terminal, 

 puberulous, 30—45 cM. long; peduncles 5— 10 cM.; main 

 branches usually 3, bearing distant, opposite, corymbose 

 cymes of rather large flowers; cymes 2V2' rarely 5 cM. 

 long; bracts small, caducous; bracteoles minute; pedicels 

 0.25 — V2 cM., much thickened in fruit; ca/yx campanulate, 

 tawny-pubescent, 0.3—0.4 cM., much enlarged in fruit; 

 lobes 5, irregular, short, acute; coroWa-tube 0.6 cM., 

 pubescent without and at the insertion of the stamens 

 within, 2-lipped; pale blue, the midlobe of the lower lip 

 darker, twice as long as the 4 recurved other lobes, 

 crenate, villous within; stamens exsert; filaments villous at 

 base, thickened; style as long as the stamens; stigma 

 shortly 2-lobed; ovary globose, depressed, tawny-pubescent; 

 drupe ovoid, tawny-pubescent, 0.8 cM. in diam. or more. 



Distribution: Malacca, Borneo. 



