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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



remote, opposite, divaricate, short, and seldom bearing 

 more than three flowers. It is called Unting unting by the 

 Malays. 



CLERODENDRUM DIVARICATUM. (W, J.J 



Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis glabris, paniculis ter- 

 minalibus erectis elongatis, pedicellis fructus reflexis, calyce 

 subintegro fructifero vix aucto. 



Tida tantu ? Malay. 



Found at Laye on the West Coast of Sumatra. 



Stem shrubby, erect, about two feet in height, smooth 

 with opposite branches, which are thickened at the joint. 

 Leaves opposite, short petioled, obovate lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, sometimes denticulate, smooth. Panicle evecty 

 terminal, long, composed of opposite divaricate ramifications, 

 which are subdichotomous, and many flowered. Pedicels of 

 the fruit reflexed. Bracts large ovate, acuminate, foliaceous. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, nearly entire. Corolla tubular, limb five- 

 parted secund, the lower segment longer, and of a blue color. 

 Stamina long, exsert. Style one. Berry deep purple, rest- 

 ing on the calyx which is scarcely at all enlarged, four-lobed, 

 four-seeded, from one to three seeds occasionally proving 

 abortive. 



VITEX ARBOREA. Roa^b. Hort. Beng. p. 46. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Arborea, foliis ternatis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis integerri- 

 mis subtomentosis, paniculis terminalibus, bracteis calyce 

 longioribus. 



Lubbun. Malay. 



Sumatra, &c. 



A tree, with somewhat four-sided branches. Leaves op- 

 posite, petiolate, ternate, sometimes quinate, leaflets ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, very entire, rigid, covered with a very 



