182 VlTEX. 



sed tomentum; panicles 4—13 cM. long, 2—5 cM. in 

 diam.; bracts small, linear; calyx obscurely 2-lipped, with 

 5 small teeth, greyish tomentose and white-glandular without, 

 glabrous within, 0.3— 0.4 cM. long, 0.25— 0.3 cM. wide, cup- 

 shaped; pedicels none or very short; corolla blue or pink, tube 

 0.85 cM., nearly cyhndrical, glabrous without in the lower, 

 appressedly pubescent in the upper part, glabrous within 

 except for the villous throat; lobes 5, pubescent without, 

 glabrous within, the larger midlobe of the lower lip 

 excepted, which has a somewhat villous base, and reaches 

 0.6 cM. in length and 0.35^ — 0.4 cM. in breadth; stamens 

 didynamous, inserted in the cOroUa-tube at about a half 

 of its length, villous near the base; style 1 cM., shortly 

 bifid at apex; ovary globose, depressed, glandular-dotted 

 in the upper, glabrous in the lower part; drupe glandular, 

 0.6 cM. long and in diam., ruddy. 



Var. X trifoliolata Schau. I.e. — var. a trifoliata 

 Cham., Linnaea VII, 107 (1832) ^) — Leaves trifoliolate, 

 sometimes reduced to 2 or even 1 leaflet; lateral leaflets 

 1.7— 6 Va cM. by 0.7—2.6 cM., 6— 7-nerved, terminal 

 ones 2.6^ — 9.2 by 1. — 3.7 cM., 10 — 13-nerved; always gla- 

 brous above; midrib often pubescent; ovate, base attenuate, 

 apex acute or subobtuse. 



Java: Buijsman no. 252, Tengger near Nongki Djadjar, 

 1200 M. in alt., flow, on l-IX-1907. 



Saleyer-ISL. : Docfers van Leeuwen~~Reijnvaan no. 1710, 

 400 M. in alt. flow, on 21-V-1913. 



New-GuineA: Neuhauss no. 2. Sialum near KingWil- 

 helm-Cape, flow, and fr. in Dec. 1909. 



Var. fi unifoliolata Schau., I.e. — var. /B simplicifolia 

 Cham. I.e. 1). —V. ova t a TAunfe., Fl. Jap.,257; Merr.Bur. 

 Gov. Lab. no. 27, 68; id. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. Ill, 432; 



') Properly speaking Chamisso's variaties have the priority, but we 

 retain those of Schauer, the names being the most exact. 



