204 ViTEX. 



V. bombacifolia Wall., cat. no. 1749 (1828). - V. 

 Cunninghamii Schau. DC, Prodr. XI, 691 (1847). ^ 

 V. helogiton K. Schum. in K. Schum. u. Lauterb., 

 Nachtr. Fl. D. Siidsee, 362 (1905). - V. leucoxylon 

 Schau. I.e. 692 (1847), (partly). ^ V. pallida Wall, 

 cat. no. 1 75 1 ( 1 828). — V. pentaphylla Merr. Phil. Journ. 

 Sci. Bot. IV, 320 (1909); Hall, f., 1. c. 54. - A tree, 

 reaching 10—20 M. (Merr.) or a large shrub; rather 

 variable in tomentum and some other features; branchlets 

 obtusely quadrangular, more or less fulvous-pubescent, 

 glabrescent; leaves 3 — 5-foliolate; leafllets chartaceous or 

 membranous, elliptical or eHiptical-oblong or subobovate, 

 sometimes subrotundate, sometimes lanceolate, base cuneate, 

 sometimes broad, or long attenuate and narrow; apex 

 obtusely or acutely acuminate; in sicco brown to nearly 

 black; margins entire; pairs of nerves 6 — ^15; upper side 

 glabrous, minutely pubescent on the midrib, the nerves 

 white-pubescent when young; lower one glabrous or very 

 sparsely pubescent, midrib glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 

 pubescent along it and ± barbellate in the axils of the 

 main nerves; lowest leaflets, if present, 2V2 — 10 by 1 — 

 5V2 cM., petiolules 0.2—0.3 cM., pairs of nerves 6—8; 

 lateral ones 14—26 by 7— 11 cM., petiolules 0.7— 1.5 cM., 

 pairs of nerves 10 — 12; terminal ones 15 — 31 by 8 — 13'/j 

 cM., petiolules 1—2 cM., pairs of nerves 12—17; petioles 

 glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 7—17 cM. long, slender; 

 cymes axillary, lax, slender, minutely pubescent, dichoto- 

 mous, few-flowered, 7—14—22 cM. long, 8—7 cM. in 

 diam., peduncles 2—7—10 cM., bracts small, caducous, 

 0.3 cM.; pedicels 0.1—0.3 cM., often with 2 minute often 

 opposite bracteoles; calyx 0.15—0.4 cM. long, 0.25— 

 0.3 cM. in diam., cupuliform, with 5 small teeth; minutely 

 and appressedly pubescent; coro//a-tube, yellowish white, 

 pubescent over its whole length, 0.5—0.6 cM., glabrous 

 within in the lower part, densely villous within in the 



