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slender, 3—6 cM.; cymes axillary, lax, 12—17 cM. long 

 and in diam., up to 6 times di- or subtrichotomous; pedun- 

 cles SVs— 7V2 cM.; pedicels 0.05—0.2 cM.; ca/yx'cupuli- 

 form, appressedly and sparsely pubescent without, glabrous 

 within; teeth 5, equal, deltoid, 0.05 cM., the tube 0.2 cM.; 

 corolla glabrous for the lowest 0.1 cM., appressedly pubes- 

 cent; tube 0.45 cM., from the insertion of the stamens 

 (about 0.1 cM. from the base) up to the throat and the 

 lip within, densely villous; upper lip with 2 acute, 0.25 

 cM. long lobes, glabrous within, lower one 3-lobed, side 

 lobes rounded, glabrous within, 0.25 cM., midlobe 0.35 

 cM., with sinuate margin; stamens Httle lexsert; filaments 

 thickened and villous towards the base, glabrous above; 

 anther-cells divergent; style somewhat longer exsert than the 

 stamens, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary globose, glabrous. 



Malay Peninsula: Griffith no. 6062. 



Distribution: Ceylon, India, Malay Peninsula!, Java. 

 {MiqueJ). 



Section II. Glossocalyx Clarke. 



34. V. gamosepala Griffith, Notul. IV, 178 (1851); 

 Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 588; King and Gamble, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 855. — A moderate-sized tree; 

 branchlets, petioles, petiolules and inflorescences minutely 

 pubescent and glandular; branchlets ± tetragonous; leaves 

 3-foJiolate; leaflets chartaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 base acute or attenuate, apex acuminate; margins entire; 

 pairs of nerves 5 — 7; both surfaces glabrous, the lower 

 one glandular, pubescent on the midrib; 5-1773 by 

 272— 6V2 cM., petiolules 0.3—273 cM., all dimensions 

 smaller in the lateral leaflets; petioles 473— 10 cM-; cymes 

 shortly peduncled, axillary, dichotomous, 1.3 — ^4 cM. long 

 and in diam., peduncles 0.2—1 cM,; ca/j/x 2-lipped, iipper 

 lip entire or 2-lobed, lower one 2-toothed, the upper one 



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