202 ViTEX. 



leaflets 20—25 by 5—7 cM.; petiolules 1—2 cM.; petioles 

 5 — 9 cM.; panicles terminal, somewhat brownish-pubescent, 

 reaching 25 cM. long, often with 4 peduncles from each 

 node; main peduncle 15 cM.; flowers fasciculated; bracts 

 0.2 ^cM.; calyx pubescent without, with 5 small teeth, 

 0.2 cM. long and wide; corolla pink, pubescent within 

 and without; tube 0.5—0.6 cM.; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 

 2-lobed, 0.5 — 0.6 cM., lobes narrow; lower one 3-lobed, 

 lobes obtuse or acute, 0.3 cM.; filaments sometimes 

 somewhat puberulous, didynamous, 0.6 and 0.8 cM.; 

 fruit unknown. 



Distribution : Mindanao. 



Subsection 2 Axillares Briq. 



27. V. tetragona Hall f.. Med. *s Rijks Herb. Leid. 

 no. 37, 53 (1918). — A tree?; branchlets very acutely 

 tetragonous; leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets sessile, lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, acute at base, margins entire, recurved; 

 chartaceous, distinctly articulated with the petioles, glabrous 

 on both sides, with branchlets and petioles distinctly 

 cinereous, especially beneath; pairs of nerves 8—12; 

 12—18 by 2.7—4.7 cM., acumen reaching 3 cM., petioles 

 1 — 2 cM.; panicles alternately axUlary; cymes shortly 

 peduncled, 3 — 7-flowered; pubescent; pedicels short, 0.1 cM.; 

 panicles reaching 5 cM., cymes 1 cM.;. ca/yx cyathi- 

 morphous, acutely 5-toothed, minutely and appressedly 

 pubescent, 0.2 cM.; corolla with lip 0.8 cM., densely 

 ochraceous-pubescent without, villous within as is the base 

 of the lip; stamens and style exsert; drupe ellipsoid, for 

 Vb included in the cupuliform calyx, pubescent, 1 cM. 

 long, 0.7 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: E.-Borneo! 



28. V. longisepala King et Gamble, Kew Bull., 112 

 (1908) and Journ. As. Soc. Beng., LXXIV, 4, 853. - A 



