180 VlTEX. 



fruit (not entirely ripe) bluish green; leaves bright green. — 

 Riggenbach, no. 22, Kais.-Wilh -land, Teba, on Mam- 

 beramo-river, near the shore; native name: bundo; flow, 

 on 20-V-1910. — Moszkowski nos. 22 and 142, same 

 locality (epiphytic!); flowers yellow, lip blue, with buds 

 and flow, on 19-V-1910. 



Distribution: Borneo [Hall. f. I.e.), Buru!, New-Guinea! 



10. V. Agnus-castus L., sp. pi. 890 (1753); 

 Schauer DC, Prodr. XI, 684; Backer, Ann. Jard. bot. 

 Btz. suppl. 3, dl. I. 393; Koord , Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 

 136. — A shrub; tomentum appressed, whitish; leaves 

 (3 — )5(. — 7 — ^9)-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate at 

 both ends, subsessile or shortly petioluled, entire or some- 

 times serrate, the lateral ones usually sessile; 4— S'/o by 

 0.7—1 cM.; petioles 2 — 2V2 cM. ; panicles interrupted, 

 terminal or axillary to the upper leaves; cymes globose, 

 crowded, the lower ones in the axils of leafy bracts, 1 — 

 IV2 ciVl. long and in diam.; peduncles 0.3—0.4 cM., 

 long and in diam.; peduncles 0.3 — 0.4 cM., opposite or in 

 whorls along therhachis; ca/yx campanulate, acutely dentate, 

 pubescent without; 0.15^ — 0.2 cM.; bracteole 1, lanceolate, 

 as long as the calyx; coroZ/a-tube glabrous; 0.45 — 0.5 cM., 

 pink, villous in throat; Hmb spreading, obHque, glabrous; 

 lobes ovate, acute, the four smaller 0.15 clM., the larger 

 one 0.2 cM. long; stamens and style exsert; stigma 

 shortly bifid. 



Distribution: a native of the countries around the 

 Mediterranean sea; imported into W.-India and into Java 

 (Batavia; Backer, Koorders). 



11. V. trifolia L. sp. pi. II, 638 (1753); Blume, Bijdr. 

 812; R. Brown, Prodr. 511; Benth. et v. MuelL, Fl. 

 Austral., V. 66; Blanco, Fl. d. Fil. ed. I, 513; Schauer, DC, 

 Prodr. XI, 683; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 40 - 

 Cham., Linnasa, VII, 107; Decne., Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 

 Ill, 400; Elbert, Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 12, 16; 



