194 VlTEX. 



entirely glabrous; terminal midrib, sometimes pubes- 



leaflet distinctly petioluled, cent; all leaflets sessile, 

 the other also or sessile. 



3. Panicles 4-24 by 3- 13 cM. 3. Panicles 4-13 bij 2-5 cM. 



4. Calyx 5-ribbed, 0.15-0.2 4. Calyx not ribbed, 0.3-0.4 

 cM. long. cM. long. 



5. Corolla with lip 0.5—0.8 5. Corolla with lip 1.4 cM.; 

 cM.; tube 0.3-0.45 cM. tube 0.85 cM. 



17. V. nitida Marrill, Phil. Journ. Sci., Bot. VII, 343 

 (1912). — A tr.ee, 5 M. high; branchlets somewhat qua- 

 drangular, more or less fulvous-pubescent, glabrescent; 

 leaves 3 — ^5-folioIate; leaflets elliptical-ovate, entire, acute 

 or acuminate at base, obtuse or shortly and broadly acu- 

 minate at apex, glabrous or nearly so, the terminal ones 

 10 by 7 cM, the lateral ones 2— S'/^ cM. long, all of 

 them petioluled; petioles 5 — 7 cM.; panicles terminal, 

 composed by cymes, axillary to the upper leaves, sub- 

 glabrous; peduncles 2— 6 cM.; cymes dichotomous, rather 

 lax and few-flowered; 3 flowers together, the lateral ones 

 pedicelled, the terminal ones sessile, or, nearly so; bracts 

 deltoid, 0.15 cM., caducous; calyx 0.25 cM., appressedly 

 pubescent, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed; coroWa-tube 

 0.6 cM., densely villous within, densely tawny-tomentose 

 without in the upper part; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes 0.35— 

 0.4 cM., lower 3-lobed, the midlobe 0.5 cM. in diam., 

 the lateral lobes 0.3 cM. long; all lobes densely tawny- 

 pubescent on both sides; filaments densely villous below; 

 style 1 cM. long. 



Distribution : Mindanao. 



This species belongs possibly to the subsection Axillares, 

 for it is not clear from Merrill's description whether there arc 

 only axillary cymes forming together a terminal (pseudo-terminal) 

 panicle, or if also a real terminal panicle is present. 



18. V. littoralis Decne., Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. Ill, 

 401 (1834); Merrill. Bur. Gov. Lab. Bull. no. 27, 68; 

 Spanoghe. Linnaea XV, 330; Hallier f., Med. 's Rijks 



