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Herb. Leiden, no. 37, 47. — V. altissima Naves ex 

 VilL in Blco., Fl. Fil. ed. Ill, Nov. app. 130 (1877). — 

 V. glaberrima Zipp. ex Span, in Linnaea XV, 330 

 (1841). — V. timoriensis Walp., Rep. IV, 84 (1848); 

 Schauer, DC, Prodr. XI, 686; Forbes. Wand. Nat. f. 

 Mai. Arch. 11, 226; Miq.. Fl. Ind. bat. II. 863. - V. 

 cofassi Reinw. var. timorensis Hall. f. I.e., 47. — 

 A tree; branchlets quadrangular, with petioles subglabrous 

 or glabrous; leaves 3-foliolate, very rarely 2— 1-foliolate, 

 leaflets articulated; leaflets oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 chartaceous, entire, in sicco dark-coloured, entirely glabrous 

 on both sides, base acute or cuneate, apex acuminate; 

 terminal leaflets 7V2— 17V2 by 2.8—7 cM., petiolules 0.5— 

 1.7 cM.; pairs of nerves rather variable, 7—9 or more 

 up to 17—20; lateral ones 6—14 by 1.8—5 cM., petiolules 

 0.3—1.5 cM., often unequal and rounded at base; petioles 

 5 — 11 cM. ; panicles terminal and axillary to the upper 

 leaves, minutely grey-pubescent, pyramidate, 8—19 cM. 

 long, 8—15 cM. wide; calyx densely pubescent to sub- 

 glabrous, rather variable in tomentum and form, often 

 5-toothed in bud, the teeth bending together over the 

 corolla, ultimately subtruncate, or truncate from the be- 

 ginning, 0.1—0.15 cM. long, cup-shaped; corolla infundi- 

 buhform, densely and appressedly pubescent without, glan- 

 dular with dense yellow glands ; throat, insertion and base 

 of stamens, and lip within villous; tube 0.3 cM. (young?), 

 sometimes larger, 0.6 cM. (in Decaisne's specimina!); 

 4-lobes ovate, 0.1 cM. long and broad, or 0.3 cM. long 

 and 0.2 cM. broad [Decne.); the lip undulate, 0.2 cM. 

 long (young?) or 0.6 by 0.25 cM. (Decne.'; the whole 

 corolla 0.5 cM. (young?) or 1.1 cM. (Decne.); stamens 

 inserted in the lower part . of the corolla-tube, which is 

 glabrous below their insertion; style, as stamens hardly 

 exsert, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary glabrous, glandular 

 at tip and often also at base; drupe half-included in the 



