DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 397 
Vigna lutea. SEASIDE BEAN, 
A trailing, yellow-flowered, perennial plant growing on sandy beaches. Leaves 
trifoliolate; stipules minute, lanceolate, attached by the base; leaflets obovate, 
obtuse, rather fleshy, entire, glabrous; racemes many-flowered, long-peduncled; pods 
short, few-seeded, resembling those of Phaseolus. 
It is possible that the allied Vigna luteola occurs in Guam, although T have not 
found it on the island. It differs from the preceding in having acute, membranous 
leaflets, the lower tooth of the calyx lanceolate, as long as the tube, and the pod 
recurved, containing 6 to 12 seeds. 
REFERENCES: 
Vigna lutea (Swartz) Gray, Bot. US. Expl. Exped. 1: 452. 1854, 
Dolichos luteus Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1246. 1806. 
Vinagrillo (Porto Rico). See Ovalis corniculata, 
Vinca rosea L. Same as Lochnera rosea. 
Vitex incisa Lam. Same as Vitex negundo. 
Vitex negundo. LAGUNDI. 
Family Verbenaceae. 
LocaL NAMes.—Lagundi (Guam, Philippines); Nika (Ceylon). 
A shrub or small tree, with palmately compound aromatic leaves and cymes of 
small lilae-blue flowers. Branchlets 4-cornered, finely pubescent; petioles slender, 
pubescent, 4 to 6.5 em. long; leaflets 3 or 5, the two lowest smaller and nearly sessile, 
the others long-stalked, 7.5 to 10 em, long, linear-lanceolate, acute and often unequal 
at base, tapering to a very acute apex, nearly glabrous above (when mature ), covered 
with a dense, white, fine pubescence beneath; flowers numerous on very short pu- 
bescent pedicels; cymes small, stalked, opposite, on erect branckes of an erect, pyram- 
idal, terminal panicle; bracts caducous; calyx small, pubescent, segments 5, very 
short, triangular; corolla pubescent outsidé, tube hairy within, the 4 upper lobes 
short, triangular, lowest one large, rounded, forming lower lip; drupe under 6 mm. 
long, nearly globose, black. 
The leaves are aromatic when bruised. In India pillows are stuffed with them 
and are said to relieve headache. The leaves and root are used medicinally, and are 
said to be tonic. This species was collected by Lesson and Gaudichaud in Guam, 
and given in Endlicher’s Flora der Siidseeinseln as Vitex ineisa Lam. Growing in 
low places and on the borders of streams. 
REFERENCES: 
Vitex negundo L. Sp. Pl. 2: 638, 1753. 
Vitex paniculata Lam. Same as Vitex negundo. 
Vitex trifolia. WILD PEPPER. 
LocaL NamEs.—Lagundi (Guam); Rara (Rarotonga); Namulenga (Samoa); 
Hamago, Hamashikimi (Japan); Wild pepper (India). 
A shrub resembling Vitex negundo, but with lighter-colored flowers and leaves 
sometimes simple and sometimes 3-foliolate. Bark smooth, pale gray; lateral leaflets 
smaller than the terminal; leaflets sessile, tapering to base, obtuse, all entire, glab- 
rous above, very finely and closely white-pubescent beneath; petiole about 1} em. 
long, pubescent, flowers on short pedicels; cymes paniculate, 1} cm. long, pubes- 
cent; bracts minute; calyx white-pubescent, enlarged in fruit, segments obscure; 
corolla pubescent outside, tube cylindrical funnel-shaped, 6 mm. long, mouth oblique, 
upper lip with 2 obtuse lobes, lower 3-lobed, the middle one much the longest; sta- 
mens 4, didymous, much exserted; ovary 2 or 4-celled; ovules 4; stigma bifid; drupe 
globose, about 6 mm. in diaineter, the lower half or more closely invested by the 
enlarged calyx, slightly scurfy, purplish black, stone usually l-celled by abortion. 
A shrub usually growing in swampy places near the coast, differing from the pre- 
ceding species in having obtuse leaflets. The leaves are pleasantly aromatic when 
