206 ViTEX. 



ceous. lanceolate, acuminate at both ends; margins entire; 

 sparsely puberulous above, densier on the nerves, tomen- 

 tose beneath and glandular; terminal leaflets ll'/s— 19by 

 5—10 cM., 8— 10-nerved, petiolules IVa— 6 cM.; lateral 

 ones 8—16 by 4— 6V2 cM., base often unequal, 5—7- 

 nerved, petiblules V2— 1 cM.; petioles S'/a — IOV2 cM.; 

 cymes axillary to the upper leaves, usually 2—4 vertically 

 arranged in the axil, dichotomous, 2V2"~6 cM. long and 

 in diam., peduncles 0.7— 2V2 cM.; caZyx subbilabiate, cupu- 

 liform or subcylindric, 0.3 cM. long, 0.2 cM. wide; teeth 



5, small, deltoid; pubescent and glandular without, glabrous 

 within; coro//a-tube cylindric, slender, 0.8 cM. long, 0.1 

 cM. wide, except in the lower part densely glandular with 

 rather large, yellow glands or glanduliferous hairs, as are 

 the 5 subequal, 0.1—0.15 cM. long, ovate lobes, which 

 have sometimes some hairs without, and are glabrous - 

 within as is the tube, except for a ring of stiff, upwards 

 pointing hairs, about 0.25 cM. from the base; stamens 

 subequal, included, glabrous, inserted at about 0.5 cM. 

 from the base of the tube, 0.4 cM. long; style slender, 



1 cM., with very shortly bifid stigma; ovary with glabrous, 

 subcylindrical base, abruptly narrowing into a glandular- 

 dotted beak; drape globose, 0.6 cM. long and in diam., for 

 the lower Vs part included in the somewhat enlarged calyx. 



Java: Ploem in H. L.— B. sub no. 909.27-27. - 

 ? Blume in H. L.-B. sub no. 908.267-628. 



Sumatra: Korthals in H. L.— B. sub nos. 908.266—786 

 and 787, Mt. Tambang; id. in H. L.-B. sub nos. 908.266- 

 755, Padang. — H. Bog. no. 1165, Lubuk-alung; id. no. 

 1158, Lubuksikaping; id. no. 3671, Muaraenim, Palembang. 



Distribution: Burma, Malay Peninsula (and Penang), 

 Java!, Sumatra!, W.-Borneo (Hallier). 



31. V. Aherniana Merrill. Bur. Gov. Lab. Bull. no. 



6, 18 (1903). — A tree; branchlets round, with petioles, 

 petiolules and cymes minutely pubescent; leaves 3- (rarely 



