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small or moderate-sized tree; branchlets obscurely quadran- 

 gular, with petioles and inflorescences densely tawny 

 pubescent; leaves 3-foliolate, membranous, the middle leaflet 

 largest and petioluled, the side ones subsessile; ovate or 

 eUiptic-ovate, abruptly caudate-acuminate at apex, the 

 terminal leaflets acuminate or cuneate at base, the lateral 

 ones cordate or rounded, or acute and unequal; upper 

 surface sparsely hispid and glandular, lower one tawny- 

 pubescent and glandular; margins entire; 10^ — 30 by 5— 

 15 cM.; petiolule of the middle leaflet 0.6-^2 cM.; petioles 

 5 — 15 cM.; pairs of nerves 8—15; cymes axillary, oppo- 

 site, 272—6.2 cM. long; main peduncles usually 2, vertically 

 arranged, l^/^ — 4 cM. long; branches 2- to 3-chotomous; 

 bracts narrowly lanceolate, 0.6 — 1.8 cM,, persistent; 

 pedicels about 2Y3 cM.; flowers primrose-yellow; calyx 

 golden brown villous, campanulate, 0.85 cM.; lobes 5, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 0.6 cM.; coroWa-tube slender, funnel- 

 shaped, 1 — 1.2 cM., yellow-glandular; 2-hpped, with a 

 scanty ring of hairs within at the insertion of the stamens, 

 0.4 cM. above the base of; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, 

 lobes rounded; lower lip 3-lobed, side lobes reflexed, 

 middle lobe narrowed below, broadened above and fim- 

 briate, twice as long as the side lobes; stamens exsert, 

 filaments glabrous, slender; style with bifid stigma; ovary 

 conoidal, densely yellow-glandular at top; drape ovoid, 

 black, smooth, glandular, 0.75 cM. long. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula. 



29. V. glabrata R.Br., Prodr. 512, (1827); Benth. and 

 V. Muell, Fl. Austral., V, 31; Schauer, DC, Prodr. XI, 

 695; Hook f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 588; Koord. en Val, 

 Bijdr. Booms, no. 7, 208 and Atl. d. Baumart. II, 6, 

 t. 209; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. LXXIV, 4, 

 852; Koord. Exk. fl.. Ill, \37; K. Schum. u. Lauterb. Fl. 

 D. Sudsee, 523; K. Schum. u. Hollrung, Fl. Kais.-Wilh.- 

 land, 121; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 54.- 



