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Vrrex TRIFouiA, THREE-LEAVED 
CHASTE-TREE. 
— Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic “Character. 
Cal. brevis, 5-dentatus. Cor. bilabiata: lab. superius bi- 
fidum : inferius trifidum, lacinia media majore. Stam. ad- 
scendentia. Drupa, Nuce 4-loculari, A-spermo. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Vitex trifolia ; foliis ternatis quinatisve : foliolis acutis ovatis 
lanceolatisve integerrimis subtus incanis, panicule rachi 
stricta, ramis subdichotomis. Brown prodr. p. 511. — 
Vitex trifolia foliis ternatis quinatisque, foliolis ovatis acutis 
integerrimis subtus canescentibus, panicule rachi recta, 
pedicellis dichotomis. Lin. Suppl. 293. Willd. Sp. Pt. 
3. p. 392. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 67. Persoon Syn. 
2. p. 144. 
ViTex trifolia ; foliis ternatis quinatisque integerrimis, pani- 
culis dichotomis. Sp. Pl. 890. Burm. Ind. 137. ur. 
Cochinch. p. 390. et ee Se 
Loconpium vulgare. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 48. t. 18. 
Caranost. Hort. Malabar. 2. p. 13. t. 10. © 
Virex trifolia minor indica. Pluk. alm. 390. Phyt. t. 206. 
Virex trifolia floribus per ramos sparsis. Burm. Zeylan. 
229. t. 109? ?—vix hujus locie 
Piper similis fructus striatus, femina. Bauh Pin, 412 ? 
The straightness of the principal footstalk of the panicle 
with its dichotomous branchlets is a remarkable feature in 
this species, which is a native of the East Indies and of the 
Bay of Islands in New South-Wales. = 
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