Gmelina.] CXI. VERBENAOEX. (C. B. Clarke)  ' 583 
obtuse, size ofa large olive, smooth, ripe bright crimson, 1-celled ; endocarp clavate, 
4-cornered, 4-celled, perforated from the base up the centre. Seed solitary, lanceolate. 
—The foregoing is extracted from Roxburgh, and indicates a remarkable tree that no 
one else has seen. "There is at Kew an unpublished drawing of Roxburgh's of this 
tree, agreeing exactly with the description. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
G. sPECIOSISSIMA, Don Prodr. 104, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 680, is Wightia 
gigantea, Wall. 
XIII. VITEX, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; shoots hairy or tomentose. Leaves opposite, digitately 
3-5-foliolate (in V. simplicifolia 1-foliolate). Inflorescence terminal and 
axillary, or wholly axillary; cymes peduncled or sessile, forming large or 
small panicles or corymbs; bracts small or longer than the calyx. Calyz 
campanulate, truncate or shortly 5-toothed (in V. gamosepala 3-toothed). 
Corolla small, tubular ; limb 2-lipped, 5-toothed ; central lobe of the lower lip 
usually much larger than the others. Stamens 4, didynamous, usually exserted; 
anther-cells at first parallel pendulous, afterwards divaricate, often twisting 
so that their lower ends are suberect. Ovary 2—4-celled, 4-ovuled; style 
filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe globose or obovoid, supported by the more or 
less enlarged calyx; endocarp bony 4-, or by suppression 3-I-celled. Seeds 
obovate or oblong.—Species 60; in all tropical and warm temperate 
regions. 
Subgenus 1. Euagnus, Schauer. Calyx cup-shaped, shortly subequally 
5-toothed or truncate. 
* Panicles terminal, peaultimate axillary peduncles often added. 
l. V. trifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. 293; leaves simple and 3-foliolate, 
leaflets veselle oeste or Kril: c entire glabrate above beneath and 
panicles closely white-tomentose, corolla 3-3 in., drupe § in. diam. black. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 69; Wall. Cat. 1743; Bot. Mag. t. 2187; Schauer in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 683; Bedd. For. Man.172; Brand. For. Fl. 370. V. ovata, 
Thunb, FI. Jap. 257; Hook. $ Arn. Bot. Beech, Voy. 206, t. 47. V. repens, 
Blanco Fl. Filip. 513. V. incisa, Wall. Cat. 1746 partly, not of Lamk. 
V. Agnus castus, var. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 269.—Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 18. 
Rheede Hort. Mat. ii. t. 11. ion the foot 
Scattere DIA, in the tropical and subtropical region, rom the foo 
of the Himalaya tae ane and Malacca, nowhere common.— DISTRIB. S. E. Asia to 
Japan, the Philippines and N. Australia. 
A shrub or small tree. Leaflets 1-3 in., subobtuse, tomentum beneath of matted 
scarcely stellate hairs, so close as with difficulty to be scraped off ; petiole Lin., Panici 
1-4 in., oblong, often leafy at the base; bracts minute. Calyx 4è in., minu ely : 
toothed. Corolla tomentose, lavender to blue. Filaments hairy at the base.— bl ap 
commoner than supposed, being frequently unnoticed from its close general resemblance 
to the universal V. Negundo. 
eee E. M late 
2. V. Ne Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 70; leaves 3-5-foliolate, 
leaflets petioliled. fnebeolate entire or crenate glabrate above beneath and 
panicles closely white-tomentose, corolla 4-3 in., drupe ; 1n. 519; Bedd. 
Wall. Cat. 1744; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 684; Wight Ic. íi Boiss. FL 
or. Man. 171; Brant. For. Fl. 369; Kurz For. FI. ii, 269; Boiss, Pr: 
Orient. iv. 535. V. bicolor, Willd. Enum. Hort, Berol. 660; Sthauer z t: 
3; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201. V. arborea, Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, 391. 
