Tas. 6230. 
VITEX LInDENI. 
Native of New Grenada ? 
Nat, Ord, VERBENACE&®,—Tribe VITICEA, 
Genus ViTEX, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii., p. 1154). 
Vitex Lindeni ; frutex ramulis gracilibus junioribus et inflorescentia cano- 
puberulis, foliis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis sessilibus ellipticis v. elliptico-obovatis 
abrupte acuminatis glaberrimis membranaceis, cymis axillaribus longe 
pedunculatis capituleformibus paucifloris, floribus brevissime pedicellatis, 
bracteis  minutis, calyce cylindraceo-campanulato; breviter squaliter 
5-dentato puberulo, corolle pallide violacex tubo calyce ter longiore, limb 
plani labiis patentibus convexis superiore minore 2-lobo lobis‘ovatis obtusis, 
inferiore 3-lobo lobis orbiculatis, genitalibus breviter exsertis, connectivo 
globoso, stigmatis lobis subulatis, 
Apparently a shrub or small shrubby tree, cultivated in the 
Palm House at Kew during the last three years, received 
from Mr. Linden in 1872, and a native presumably of New 
Grenada. It is closely allied to V. capitata, Vahl., of 
Trinidad, and V. Schomburgkiana, Schauer, of British Guiana ; 
differing from the former in the much shorter, broader leaf- 
lets without the caudate apices, and from the latter in wanting 
the soft tomentum of the leaves and branchlets, and from 
both in the more cylindric calyx. It flowers annually at 
Kew about the month of May. 
Duscr. Stem erect, branches cylindric and covered with 
white bark. Branches very spreading, leafy towards the 
apex; branchlets covered with a very fine gray hoary 
pubescence, as is the whole inflorescence. Leaves opposite, 
three to five-foliolate; petiole slender, one to three inches 
long ; leaflets sessile, as long as or longer than the petiole, 
elliptic or elliptic-obovate, with a rather abruptly narrowed 
point, quite entire, glabrous on both surfaces, membranous, 
pale green. Cymes in the opposite axils, capitate, on very 
slender naked peduncles that are much longer than the 
petioles, three to six-flowered. Flowers sessile or very shortly 
pedicelled, with a minute bract at the apex of the pedicel. 
Calyx about one-eighth of an inch long, between cylindric 
May Ist, 1876, 
