200 VlTEX. 



centes: folia 3-foliolata; foliola lateovata, chartacea. margine 

 integra, basi cuneata, apice subabrupte acuminata, supra 

 glabra, scabrido-papillosa, sparse glandulosa, nervis dense 

 pubescentia, subtus glabra, densiuscule glandulosa, nervis 

 dense pubescentia; 4V2— 7 cM. longa, 2V2— 3 cM. lata, 

 petiolulo 0.3—0.6 cM. longo; petiolo IV2— 2V2 cM. longo; 

 paniculee terminales, laxas, 25 cM. longae, 20 cM. latae, 

 bracteis lanceolatis obtusis, 0.8—3.2 cM. longis, 0. 1 —0.35 cM. 

 latis ; calyx cupuliformis, dense, praesertim subtus, pubescens, 

 glanduloso-punctatus, intus glaber, in alabastro 0.15 cM. 

 longus: corollas alabastrum 0.3 cM. longum, dense pubescentis 

 glandulosaeque, parte inferiore tubi excepta; fauce, stami- 

 num insertione, lobi medii inferioris labii basi villosae; 

 stylus apice bifidus ; ovarium, apice villosum et glandulosum. 



Luzon: Mangubat no. 1361, Mendez Nunez, Cavite, 

 buds in Aug. 1906. 



This species is nearly allied to V. luteoglandalosa, but its leaves 

 are far less glandular beneath, and it has large, lanceolate bracts. 



24. V. coriacea C. B. Clarke in Hook, f., Fi. Br. Ind. 

 IV, 586 (1885); King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXXIV. 4, 846. — A tree, reaching 20 M. or more in 

 height; branchlets round, minutely puberulous; leaves 3- 

 foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or oblanceolate, coriaceous; 

 margins entire; base acute, apex obtuse or acute; glabrous 

 on both surfaces, glandular below; petioles and petiolules 

 minutely pubescent; pairs of nerves 6—7; 5— 12 '/a by 

 2—4 cM., petiolules 1 — 1.2 cM. in the terminal, 0.4—0.6 

 in the lateral leaflets; petioles 272—5 cM.; panicles ter- 

 minal, minutely pubescent, 11—20 cM. long, 8—10 cM. 

 in diam., relatively few-flowered; bracts linear, 0.5 cM.; 

 flowers in small, often distant clusters, violet or blue; 

 calyx pubescent and glandular without, subinfundibuliform, 

 enlarged and cup-shaped in fruit.; tube 0.2—0.25 cM., 

 teeth deltoid, 0.1—0.12 cM,. acute (obtuse King and 

 Gamble); corolla pubescent and glandular within and 



