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Philippines: Fenix no. 15906, Bataan, Mindanao, flow, and 

 fr. in Aug. 1912. 



40. V. Minahassae Koord., Med. 's Lands PI. tuin Btz. XIX, 

 560 and 645 (1898). — A tree; leaves 5-foliolate; leaflets 23- 

 27 cM. long, elliptical, glabrous and eglandular beneath ; petioles 

 25 cM. long; inflorescences, flowers and fruits unknown. 



Distribution: N. -Celebes. 



41. V. padangensis Hall f., Med. s Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 

 37, 46 (1918). — A tree?; branchlets with inflorescences ferru- 

 ginous- or ochraceous-tomentose, glabrescent; branchlets qua- 

 drangular, leaves long petioled, 3— 5-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate, 

 cuspidate-acuminate, acute at base, the lower ones shorter 

 petioluled and often unequal at base; coriaceo-membranous, 

 glabrous and glandular on both sides except on the puberulous 

 nerves, dark beneath and purple-violet, terminal ones 11 — 17 by 

 5—6 cM., petiolules 2—3 cM.; petioles 5—12 cM.; panicles 

 terminal, thyrsoidal, with 2—6 decussate branches, 20—25 cM. 

 long ; flowers unknown ; drupe ellipsoid, apiculate, black, glabrous, 

 2 cM. long, 1 cM. in diam. ; fruiting calyx patelliform, shortly 

 and irregularly 5-lobed, puberulous without, glabrous and violet 

 within, 1.1 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: W.-Sumatra. 



42. V. parviflora A. fuss.. Ann. Mus. Par. VII, 76 (1806); 

 Miguel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 865. — A shrub; branchlets round, 

 very sparsely pubescent towards the top, glabrescent; leaves 

 3-foliolate; leaflets chartaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at apex, cuneate or subtruncate at base; margins entire; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the lower one sparsely glandular; terminal 

 ones 6—13 by 2V2— 5 cM., petiolules 0.8—1 cM., pairs of 

 nerves 9—11; lateral ones 3— lO'/g by 1.4—4 cM., petiolules 

 0.6—0.7 cM., pairs of nerves 5—7; petioles, glabrous as are 

 the petiolules, 2—8 cM. long; panicles terminal, extremely dense- 

 and many-flowered (at least in the specimina extant), grey- 

 tomentose, 14—22 cM. long, 12—34 cM. in diam. ; ^ot^ers not 

 present; drupe subglabrous, black, seated on or partly included 

 in the persistent calyx, which is sparsely glandular and pubescent 

 without. 



Philippines: Elmer no. 14218, Mambajan, Camaguin-isl., 



