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Distribution; Timor!, Philippines! and some islands be- 

 tween them! 



Wc are not sure that this is a uniform species, but we find, 

 although it is rather polymorphous, no terms nor means to 

 subdivide it into 2 or more species or varieties. The form with 

 the larger corolla occurs in Timor (Decne.) as well as in the 

 Philippines {Cuming no. 1365), and the localities in Kalao-Toa, 

 Kape-adi, Celebes and also in Amboyna, may indicate that the 

 plants from Timor are identical with those from the Philippines. 

 An examinator having within his reach a more complete material 

 than we had, will be able to give a final decision in this matter. 



19. V. siamica F. N. Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 

 ser. II. T. V. 431 (1905); King and Gamble, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng,, LXXIV, 4, 847. — A tree, reaching 10-13 

 M. in height; -branchlets with petioles glabrous; leaves 

 3-foliolate; leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, entire, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often bluntly at apex, rounded 

 or cuneate at base, the lateral leaflets sometimes slightly 

 asymmetric, the terminal ones 6— IZ'/j cM. long, 1.8—4.3 

 cM. broad, petiolules (also to lateral leaflets) about 1.2 

 cM.; petioles I'/^S cM.; the lateral leaflets usually about 

 Vs smaller; pairs of nerves 12 — 24, only sHghtly curving 

 to the margin ; panicles terminal, with sometimes additional 

 branches from the axils of the upper leaves, minutely 

 puberulous, many-flowered, reaching sometimes 30 cM. 

 in length; bracts many, persistent, linear-lanceolate, 0.6 — 

 1.8 cM.; bracteoles 2 to each pedicel; pedicels slender, 

 sometimes 0; flowers smafl, blue or white; calgX'tuhe 

 campanulate, pubescent and glandular without, 0.12 cM.; 

 teeth 5, acute, 0.05 cM.; in fruit much enlarged, cup- 

 shaped; coroWa-tube 0.25 cM., pubescent on both sides 

 except at the base, and with many yellow glands; upper 

 lip with 2 short obtuse lobes; lower 3-lobed, the midlobe 

 longer and villous inside; stamens included or nearly so; 

 filaments thickened, villous; style rather thick, as long as 

 stamens, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary depressed, spar- 



