184 VlTEX. 



V. digitata Wight ex Steud. I.e. — V. heterophylla 

 Bl: (not of Roxb.) ex Miq. I.e. II, 862. — V. inaequi- 

 folia Turcz.. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI, II, 223 

 (1863). - V. latifolia Blco.. Fl. Fil. ed. I, 514 (1837). - 

 V. latifolia Lam. Encycl. II, 613 (1786) i); Hall, f., 

 Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 44. V- V. N eg undo 

 NoTonha (not of L), Verb. Bat. Gen. V, ed. I. art. IV, 

 86 (1790). — A large tree, 20 M. bigb or more; brancblets 

 acutely quadrangular, densely tawny-pubescent, as are peti- 

 oles and panicles; leaves 3-5-foliolate; leaflets chartaceo- 

 coriaceous, rarely membranous, ovate, base broadly cuneate, 

 somewhat attenuate, apex obtuse, acutely or subobtusely 

 acuminate; pairs of nerves in the terminal leaflets 11 — 13; 

 upper surface sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, pubescent 

 on the nerves; lower one pubescent, densier on the nerves; 

 lowest leaflets, if present, IVs-— 5.2 by 0.7—2.3 cM., ses- 

 sile; lateral ones 5V2 — 15V2 by 272^-7 cM., petiolules 

 0—0.2 cM.; terminal ones 8— 22V2 by 3V2— 9.2 cM.; 

 petiolules 0—0.3 cM.; petioles 4—8 cM.; panicles large, 

 the lower axillary to the upper leaves, the upper termi- 

 nal, with leafy bracts to its rhachises; 8 — 25 cM. long, 

 6^18 cMi in diam.; bracts many, ovate, 0.7—1.2 by 

 0.2— 0.7 cM.; ca/yx-tube campanulate, 0.4 cM., 0.7 cM. 

 in diam.; teeth deltoid, 0.2 cM. long; densely pubescent 

 without and on the teeth inside; coroZ/a-tube glabrous on 

 both sides in the lower part, pubescent without in the 

 upper, glandular; throat glabrous except near the somewhat 

 villous base of the midlobe of the lower lip and near 

 the insertion of the stamens; lobes pubescent without, 

 except near the margin of the lip, glabrous within; tube 

 1 cM.; smaller lobes 0.5 cM. long, 0.35 cM. broad; lip 



') Really Hallier is right in giving the priority to this name. Yet 

 we maintain the first given one, since all other authors use it. If we 

 changed it, we should cause confusion. 



