190 VlTEX. 



70; Spanoghe, Linnaea XV, 329; Merrill Phil. Journ. 

 Sci. Bot. IX, 136; Hemsley. Chall. Rep., Bot. I, 110 and 

 177: Zoll. u. Mor.,Syst.Verz., 53. ^V. arbor eaDesf., 

 Cat. Hort. Par. ed. Ill, 391 (1829). - V. gracilis 

 Salisb.. Prodr. 107 (1796). — V. incisa Lam.,- Encycl. II, 

 612. (1786); Schauer, I.e. 684; Maxim. I.e. 82; Hassk., 

 2e Cat. 's Lands PI. tuin Btz., 134; Schum. u. Lauferb. 

 Fl. D. Siidsee, 524. — V. laciniata Hort. ex. Schauer, 

 I.e., 684 (1847). — V. leucoxylon Blco., Fl. Fil. ed. I, 

 516 (1837). — V. paniculata Lam. I.e., 612; Roxb., 

 Fl. ind. Ill, 71. — A large shrub or small tree: branchlets 

 round, densely and minutely greyish or grey-brown tomen- 

 tose; leaves 3-5-foliolate (when 2- or 1-foliolate probably 

 an hybrid with V. trifolia; see note under), the terminal 

 leaflets always petioluled, the other sessile or subsessile; 

 leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, thinly chartaceous; 

 margins entire, sometimes coarsely and obtusely serrate 

 in the middle of the leaflet; upper surface black in sieco, 

 glabrous, lower minutely but densely grey or grey-brown 

 tomentose; pairs of nerves 7—12^18, very indistinct; 

 lowest -.leaflets, if present, 0.7— 4V2 by 0.4—2.2 cM., 

 7— 8-nerved; lateral ones IVs—lO by 0.7—3.3 cM., 

 petiolules 0^ — 1 cMt, nerves 8—10; terminal ones 2.3— 

 lOVs by 0.8— 3'/2 cM., petiolules IV2 — 1-7 cM., pairs of 

 nerves 10^ — 18; panicles terminal or axillary to the upper 

 leaves, grey or grey-brown tomentose, lax with long 

 peduncled 'cymes or more crowded with sessile cymules; 

 4—24 cM. long, 3—13 cM. wide; bracts 0.2—0.6 cM.; 

 calyx grey or grey-brown tomentose, 5-toothed, 5-ribbed, 

 subbilabiate, 0.15 — 0. 2 cM. long and wide; pedicels 0—YgcM.; 

 corolla greyish pubescent without except in the lower part 

 of the tube, 0,25—0.5 cM.. villous within from the throat 

 to the insertion of the stamens; 4 lobes subacute, deltoid, 

 glabrous within, 0.1—0.15 cM., lip villous within, 0.15— 

 0.3 cM.; the whole corolla 0.25—0.8 cM.; stamens 4, 



