Gmelina. 223 



Distribution: Mauritius {Hallier), Deccan Peninsula. 

 Ceylon, Bengal, Siam (Hook, f.), Philippine Islands!, 

 Borneo!, Banka!, Sumatra (Hallier), Java (Miquel, Blume), 

 Malay Peninsula (King and Gamble); often (always?) 

 cultivated. 



The species has an affinity with G. villosa, with which it is 

 confounded, but differs very distinctly from it, among other 

 things, by its glabrous leaves. 



7. G. Dalrympleana {F. v. Muell.) H. J. Lam, nov. 

 nom. — G. macrophylla Bentham, Fl. Austr. V, 65, 

 (1870); Palle in Lorentz, Nova Guinea, VIII, 2, 402; 

 F. V. Mueller, Descr. notes on pap. pi. VIII, 46; Schumann 

 u. Lauterbach, Fl. D. Schutzgeb. Siidsee, 524; Schumann 

 u. Hollrung, Fl. Kais.-Wilh.-land 120. — Vitex macro- 

 phylla R. Br., Prodr. 512 (1827); Schauer, DC, Prodr. 

 XI, 695. — V. Dalrympleana F. v. Muell.. Fragin. 

 IV, 128 (1858). — A large tree; branchlets, inflorescences 

 and petioles minutely hairy, glabrescent; leaves broadly 

 ovate, base cordate or rotundate, apex subobtusely acumi- 

 nate, opposite, coriaceous; both surfaces glabrous, shining ; 

 nerves somewhat hairy (simple hairs); pairs of nerves 7, 

 reticulation very indistinct, — 10 large glands beneath and 

 above the first pair of nerves, concave on the lower, 

 convex on the upper surface (extrafloral nectaries), 10—27 

 by 7 — 16 cM.; petioles 2—3 cM.; inflorescences long 

 15—21, 4 — 6 cM. in diam,; cymules in the axils of leaves 

 or more or less foliaceous bracts; calyx 0.5 cM., glabrous, 

 truncate or somewhat sinuate, often irregularly cleft, with 

 several large glands; corolla bright-blue, 1.8 cM., appres- 

 sedly pubescent without, except lower part of tube, glabrous 

 within, throat somewhat papillose; limb oblique, lobes 5 

 subacute, 0.6—0.8 cM. long, the middle one of the lower 

 lip longer; stamens inserted in the lower part of the 

 corolla-tube; filaments flattened, glabrous; anthers 2-lobed, 

 connectives thickened; style stout, with some glanduliferous 



