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9. V. HoUrungii Wacb., Engl. Jhrb. XVIII, 208, (1894); 

 Pulle in Lorentz, Nova-Guinea, VIII. 2, 401 and VIII. 

 4, 685; K. Schum. u. Lauterb., Fi. D. Sudsee, 523; Hall, 

 f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37. 51. — A small tree, 

 3V2 M. high (Gjellerup); branchlets round, with inflores- 

 cences densely and appressedly tawny-pubescent, glabres- 

 cent; leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets coriaceous, sessile, hardly 

 articulated with the stout, glabrous, with tranversal lamels 

 supplied petioles; oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lance- 

 olate, base acute or cuneate, apex acuminate; margins 

 entire; in sicco upper surface greyish, lower light-brown; 

 both of them glabrous, the lower glandular; pairs of nerves 

 10— 18; 11— 30 by 4—13 cM.. sometimes narrow(20 by 5cM.) 

 or broader (20 by 10 cM.); petioles 0.3 cM. indiam.. 1.4 — 

 2 V2 cM. long ; panicles terminal or axillary to the upper leaves. 

 12 — 28 cM. long ; ca/yx campanulate, densely and appressedly 

 tawny-pubescent without, glandular; ± 2-lipped; 5-toothed, 

 4(— 5)-ribbed; teeth deltoid; 0.3(— 0.4) cM., enlarged in 

 fruit; corolla pubescent outside except in the lower part 

 of the tube; the 4 smaller lobes subglabrous within, 0.1^ — 

 0.15 cM. long, the larger lobe densely villous within, 

 especially near the base, where there is a (honey-?) furrow. 

 0.5—0.8 cM. long. 0.2-0.4 cM. broad; tube 0.6 cM. 

 long, densely villous in throat and near insertion of stamens; 

 stamens exsert; filaments villous near their base; style 

 0.9 cM., bifid at apex; ovary densely pubescent and glan- 

 dular, densier at apex; drupe globose, minutely pubescent 

 at first, included in, ultimately seated on the accrescent 

 calyx, 1.2 — 2 cM. long, 1.1 — 1.8 cM. in diam.; enlarged 

 calyx 0.6 - 0.8 cM. long. 



BuRU: Teysmann, no. 1831 H. Bog., Oki.- 



New-Guinea : Gjellerup, nos. 312a— rf, Dutch N.-G., 



Hollandia, flow, and fr. on 21-VIII-1910; 10 M. in ait.; 



corolla yellowish, with blue lip; stamens yellow, anthers 



dark-brown, pollen yellowish white; stigma yellowish white; 



