584 CXI. VERBENACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Vitex. 
V. paniculata, Lamk. Dict. ii. 612; Roxb. l. c. 71—Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. 
t.19. Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 12. 
Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, in the warmer zone a universal plant. NicoBars ; 
Kurz.—DisTRIB. Cabul, E. Asia to the Philippines. 
A shrub or small tree, hardly distinguishable from F. trifolia but by the points 
mentioned in the diagnosis. The leaflets are frequently 5, the centre one at least 
usually distinctly petioluled, the flowers rather smaller. 
VAR. incisa; leaflets crenate-serrate or subpinnatifid. V. incisa, Lamk. Dict. ii. 
611, and Jil. t. 541, fig. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 364; Roxb. l.c. 72; Wall. Cat. 1746, 
partly; Schauer l. c. 684.—' Throughout India. Distrib. E. Asia.—The extreme 
pinnatifid form of this var. is Chinese ; the wild Indian examples are crenate-serrate, 
i.e. intermediate, 
3. V. altissima, Linn. f. Suppl. 294; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets sub- 
sessile lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubescent beneath, 
panicles compound fulvous-villous, corolla scarcely i in., drupe § in. diam. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind.ii.71; Wall. Cat. 1155 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 685 ; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201; Wight Ic. à. 1466; Bedd. FI. Sylv. t. 252; Brand, 
For. Fl. 370. 
Deccan PENINSULA, especially the west side, up to 4000 ft., common; Heyne, 
Wight, &c. 
A very large tree ; shoots tawny-villousor woolly. Leaves 3-foliolate, occasionally 
5-foliolate (Beddome) ; leaflets 53 by 13 in., mature glabrous above except the midrib, 
beneath closely distinctly reticulate and with scattered round yellow glands ; petiole 
24 in. sometimes somewhat winged upwards. Panicles 3-8 in, diam.; branches 
elongate, interrupted, cymes clustered ; bracts 74-4 in., elliptic. Calyx } in., fulvous- 
villous, teeth short, triangular. Corolla woolly. Ovary and young fruit fulvous- 
villous at the apex. 
Van. zeylanica ; mature leaves glabrate beneath. V. zeylanica, T'urez. in Bull. 
Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1868, ii. 223. V.altissima (forma subglabra), Thwaites Enum. 
244.— Ceylon; Walker, Thwaites.—Leaves beneath reticulate, the depressions 
microscopically tomentose, as in V. altissima after all the hair is rubbed off. 
4. V. alata, Heyne; Roth Nov. Sp. 316; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets 
subsessile broadly lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubes- 
cent beneath, wing of the petiole broad cordate at base, panicles terminal 
compound fulvous-villous, corolla scarcely } in., drupe $ in. diam. Dalz. 4 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201, not of Schauer, nor of Kurz. V.appendiculata, Rottler 
in Herb. Wall.— Rheede Hort. Mal. v. t. 1. 
MADRAS P Van Royen; Tuichecoonum, Rottler. MYSORE ; Cleghorn. 
_ Scarcely differs from V. aitissima but by the wing of the petiole, which is jj in. 
wide, continuous, dilated, cordate and subamplexicaul at the base; leaflets 23 in. wide. 
—Some branches, apparently of this, collected by Shuter, Law, and Stocks, have 
some of the leaves 5-foliolate. 
5. V. limonifolia, Wall. Cat. 1754; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets sessile 
ovate entire mature pubescent beneath, petiole broadly winged, panicles long- 
branched, cymes clustered distant, bracts prominent persistent. Kurz For. 
Fl. i. 271. V.alata, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 685, not of Heyne. 
Peet and TENASSERIM ; Wallich, &c.—DisTRIB. Ava, Siam. — . 
A tree; shoots fulvous-hairy or woolly. Leaflets 7 by 23 in., acute at both ends, 
mature nearly glabrate above, minutely densely fulvous-pubescent beneath ; petiole 3-4 
by i-3 in. .Panicles 18 by 6 in., fulvous-hairy ; branches interruptedly spicate ; 
bracts 1-j in., lanceolate, often imbricate. Calyx 4 in., very shortly toothed, closely 
fulvous-strigillose. Corolla } in., fulvous-villous. Drupe i in. diam., globose, smooth. 
—The leaves are exceedingly like those of V. pubescens, except that the petiole is 
winged ; the elongated interrupted panicle-branches are quite different. 
