186 VlTEX. 



19. V. sumatrana Miq., Fl. Ind. bat., suppl. I. 567 

 (I860).. — A tree; branchlets quadrangular, somewhat 

 pubescent, glabrescent; leaves 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets charta- 

 ceous, obovate, acute or cuneate at base, abruptly acumi- 

 nate or subentire at apex; margins entire; pairs of nerves 

 6—10; upper surface glabrous or nearly so, with small 

 white scales (glands, Clarke), pubescent on the nerves, 

 lower glabrous or sparsely pubescent, glandular; lowest 

 leaflets, if present, 7 by 3 cM., petiolules 0.5 cM.; lateral 

 ones 41/2— 12 by 2V2— 6V2 cM..petiolules0.8— 1 — 1.8 cM.; 

 terminal ones 6V2 — H by 4—7 cM., petiolules (0.5)— 

 1 V2— 3 cM.; petioles glabrous, 5—8 cM.; panicles terminal, 

 or the lower ones axillary to the upper leaves, minutely 

 and sparsely ferruginous-pubescent, narrow, 8—12 cM. 

 long, P/s- 2Y2 cM. wide ; ca/yx campanulate or urceolate, 

 pubescent and glandular without, glabrous within; teeth 5, 

 deltoid, small, more or less ribbed, often with a pimple 

 below each tooth; calyx 0.3— 0.4 cM. long, 0.2— 0.25 cM. 

 wide; corolla pubescent and glandular without, except in 

 the lower part, entirely glabrous within or with some 

 hairs at the base of the lip only; tube 0.4 — 0.7 cM.; 

 lobes small, 0.1 cM., the lip 0.2 cM. long, all of them 

 glabrous within; stamens little exserted, didynamous, 

 inserted in the upper half of the corolla-tube; filaments 

 stout, glabrous, red; anther-cells divaricate; style as long 

 exsert as the stamens, with shortly bifid apex; ovary 

 pyriform, glabrous or somewhat glandular at tip; fruit 

 globose, depressed, somewhat beaked at apex, glabrous, 

 1 — 1.2 cM. long, 0.9—1 cM. in diam. or more, seated on 

 the enlarged (up to 1.3 cM. in diam.) calyx. 



Var. a typica H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia 3— 5-foliolata; 

 foliolorum acumina 0.9—1.2 cM. longa, sparse pubescentia 

 subtus; calyx campanulatus, 0.3 cM. longus, 0.25 cM. 

 diametro, dentibus basi buUatis; corollas alabastrum re- 

 curvum, tubus 0.4 cM. longus; totae 0.7 cM. longae. 



