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without except on the inferior part of the tube; tube 

 0.4 cM., 4 lobes rounded, 0.2—0.3 cM. long, the lip 

 larger, 0.5 cM. long, with the throat densely villous within, 

 crenate; stamens exsert; filaments stout, glandular, villous 

 below; anthers reniform; insertion in the throat; 0.4 cM. 

 long; style 0.8 cM., stigma shortly bifid; ovary depressed, 

 sparsely pubescent and glandular; drupe glabrous, 1.3 — 

 2 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula! 



25. V. lasiantha Hall. f.. Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. 

 no. 37, 50 (1918). — A tree. 23 '/g M. high; branchlets 

 cinereous, with petioles subglabrous; leaves 3-foliolate, 

 lanceolate or lanceolate-obovate, base acute or subatten- 

 uate, apex cuneate or subobtuse; margins entire; coria- 

 ceous, entirely glabrous on both sides; pairs of nerves 

 8—9; ISVs— 20 by 4.8-7 cM., petiolules 1.2—2.7 cM.; 

 petioles 4 — 4^/^ cM.; panicles nearly as in V. flabelliflora, 

 but never more than 2 peduncles from each node; reaching 

 20 cM. in length; bracteoles caducous; all parts minutely 

 pubescent;, cymules with peduncles 1 cM. long; calyx 

 cup-shaped, densely tawny-pubescent, with 5 deltoid, rather 

 large teeth, 0.1—0.15 cM. long, pedicels 0.1— 0.3 cM.; 

 corolla white, densely tawny-pubescent without except in 

 the lower part of the tube; tube 0.3 — 0.4 cM., villous 

 at throat; 4 lobes, 0.15 cM. long, pubescent on both sides, 

 lip 0.3 cM. long, villous within; filaments 0.15 cM. exserted, 

 slender, pubesgent; style as long exsert as the stamens, 

 with shortly bifid apex; ovary globose, glabrous, minutely 

 villous at tip. 



Distribution: S.-W.-New-Guinea! 



26. V. longifolia Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. V. 227 

 (1910). — A tree; branchlets and petioles glabrous; leaves 

 3-foliolate; leaflets oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate, subcoriaceous ; margins entire, apex long acu- 

 minate; glabrous on both sides; pairs of nerves 10; terminal 



