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Flora of the, Malayan Peninsula. 
Flowers usually small, axillary or terminal, in racemes fascicles or 
corymbs rarely solitary, usually bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tube 
globose, its teeth 4 or 5, small. Corolla urceolate, tubular or ovoid, 
5-lobed, pink white or greenish-yellow. Stamens 8 or 10, free, inserted 
near the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, with two apical 
eylindric tubes dehiscing by terminal slits, sometimes appendiculate at 
the base (apical tubes very short in one or two species). Disk cushion- 
shaped, convex, sometimes lobed. Ovary 4- or 5-celled, or falsely 
8-10-eelled ; style eylindric ; stigma simple ; ovules few or several in 
each cell. Fruit a more or less globose berry, crowned by the persistent 
calyx-lobes, 5-celled or falsely 10-eelled. Seeds small, 1 or more in 
each cell, ellipsoid, compressed ; testa firm, smooth. — Distrib. Species 
about 140, in the Northern Hemisphere or on mountain ranges in the 
tropics. 
Leaves broadly elliptic, ovate-rotund or oblanceolate, the 
apex broad, sometimes minutely apiculate but never acute, 
very coriaceous : — 
Leaves under -75 in. in length, elliptic or obovate-ellip- 
tic ; corolla -3 in. long, tapering to the mouth ; a small 
glabrous tree or bush 
Leaves under 1 in. in length, ovate or elliptic ; corolla -2 
to -25 in. long, the mouth wide, truncate; an epiphytic 
shrub, glabrous except the scurfy branches . . 
Leaves elliptic, their apices sub-obtuse, the base truncate 
or minutely cordate, 1 to 1-35 in. long ; flowers enveloped 
in large deciduous bracts 
Leaves broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, muoh narrowed 
to the base 
Leaves obovate-elliptic, slightly narrowed to the apex but 
never acuminate, coriaceous ; flowers '35 in. long, in 
axillary racemes 
Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute acute or acumi- 
nate : — • 
Leaves entire : — 
Leaves glabrous : — 
Leaves coriaceous : — 
Leaves with 4 or 5 pairs of main-nerves ; flowers 
•2 in. long, in axillary and terminal racemes: 
mouth of corolla entire or obscurely toothed ; a 
shrub or small tree ; anthers with short broad 
beaks 
Leaves with 3 pairs of main-nerves ; corolla -2 in. 
long ; its mouth with 5 short, broad, recurved 
lobes ; beaks of anthers truncate, shorter than the 
cells, epiphytic 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, their main-nerves 3 pairs ; 
flowers -35 in. long; beaks of anthers more than 
twice as long as the cells ; epiphytic 
1. V. Scortechinii. 
2. V. microphylla. 
3. V. glabrescens. 
4. V. viscifolium. 
5. V. Teysmanni. 
6. V. bancanmn. 
7. V. Kunstleri. 
8. V. Hasseltii. 
