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4-) foliolate; leaflets oblong or ovate-oblong, cuneate at 

 base, acuminate at apex; chartaceous; margins entire; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, somewhat pubescent on and 

 near the nerves beneath; 10—24 by 6—10 cM., petiolules 

 in all leaflets equal, 1—3 cM.; petioles 6V2— S'/s cM., 

 incrassate at base and in the insertion of the petiolules; 

 pairs of nerves 12—15; cymes axillary, peduncles 2 in the 

 axils, 3—6 cM.; 9—12 cM. long, few-flowered; flowers 

 relatively large; calyx funnel-shaped, with 2 minute brac- 

 teoles close to its base, sparsely pubescent and glandular 

 without, glabrous within; obscurely 5-denticulate, 0.4 cM. 

 long and wide; coroWa-tube short, 0-35— 0.4 cM., glabrous 

 below, pubescent for the rest, as are the lobes, except 

 for the margin of the large lip; throat and base of the 

 Up densely villous; 4 lobes narrow, longer than the tube, 

 0.6 cM. long, 0.2 cM. broad, glabrous within; lip large, 

 often somewhat 2-lobed, the lobes crenate- or sinuate- 

 serrate; 1 cM. long; stamens little exsert, filaments villoiis 

 below, inserted in the lower part of the,, throat ; style as 

 long exsert as the stamens, stigma shortly bifid; ovary 

 glabrous, globose, ± 4-furrowed. 



Philippines: Curran no. 1143, Negros, flow, in April 

 1912; id. no. 10571, Albay, Luzon. — Escdtot no. 20768, 

 Guinayangan, Tayabas, Luzon, flow, in March— April 

 1913. — Rosenbluth no. 12236, Lubang-isl. flow, in 

 March 1908. 



32. V. Curranii H. J. Lam, nov. spec. — Arbor?; 

 ramuli obscure quadrangulares, cum petiolis petiolulisque 

 velutini, nodis incrassatiF folia 5-foliolata; fohola elliptico- 

 oblonga. vel oblonga, apice basique acuminata, basi saepe 

 decurrentia, chartacea, vel subcoriacea, margine Integra, 

 longe petiolulata, 8-11-nervia, utrinque glabra, in cpsta 

 media pubescentia; inferiora 11 cM. longa, 5 cM. lata, 

 petiolulo 1.7 cM. longo; lateralia 17 cM. longa, 6 cM. 

 lata, petiolulo 3.3 cM. longo; terminalia 20 cM. longa. 



