The whole plant has a hot aromatic taste and powerful smell ; 
more especially the berries. According to Van Rueepe and 
Rumpus it is much used in medicine, principally in fomen- 
tations and cataplasms to sooth the pains arising from Gout. 
and other causes. It has also been much extolled for its 
eflicacy in curing Palsy, Bontivus himself having been restored 
by its use. 
In the specimens of this plant that we have seen we have 
not met with any quinate leaves, but one or both of the side 
leaflets are sometimes wanting, and then the leaves become 
simple. 
The plant figured in this work at No. 364, under the name 
of Virex Negundo, by which it was known in our gardens, 
is now found not to be that species, but is recorded in the 
last edition of the Hortus Kewensis by the name of Vitex 
incisa, This mistake doubtless originated from Linneus 
himself having in the twelfth edition of the Systema Nature 
added the figures in Miiiers icones (t. 275) to the Synonyms 
of Virex Negundo, which in reality belong to the same species 
as the one so called by Mr. Curtis. 
The figure quoted by Linnaus from Burman’s Flora Zey- 
lanica can hardly belong to our plant, on account of the lower 
leaflets being on long petioles, and the inflorescence quite 
different. 
The drawing now published was taken some years ago by 
the late Mr. Sypennam Epwarps, at Mr. WuiTLEy’s, but is 
now no longer to be met with there. It flowered in July. 
It does not appear to have blossomed in the Kew Garden be- 
fore the publication of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensts. 
Requires to be kept in the stove during the winter. May be 
propagated by cuttings. — 
