VITEX AGNUS CASTUS. ._ CHASTE-TREE. 
SYNONYMA, Agnus caftus. Pharm. Geof. iti. Age Dale, 297: 
Alfion, ti. 321. Bergtus. 559. Murray. it. 195. Lewis. "27. 
Edinb. New Difpenf: 119. Vitex foliis ‘anguftioribus cannabis 
modo difpofitis. Bauh. Pin. 475. Vitex five Agnus caftus. Ger, 
Emac. 1387. Vitex folio angutto. Park, sceiewe 1437- emu, tes 
folio non — Raii. Tift. 1696. 
Didynamia Aaptotpermié. Te Gen. Plant. T98 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-dentatus. oak limbus 6-fdus, Bacca 4-fperma. B 
Sp. Ch. W.foliis digitatis itratts, fists veccictllabec: = “ 
THIS fmall tree or fhrub divides into numerous branches; is 
eovered with a greyifh bark, and the young fhoots are clothed. with 
a downy fubftance. Leaves digitated, oppofite, on long footftalks, 
feparating into five or feven portions, which are long, narrow, 
elliptical, entire, pointed, on the upper fide fmooth, under fide 
downy. Flowers purplith, on fhort peduncles, in whorled {pikes. 
Calyx fhort, tubular, downy: margin irregular, toothed. Corolla 
monopetalous, ringent ; tube fhort, cylindrical: limb divided into four 
fegments, of which the undermott i is the largeft. Filaments four, two 
- Jong, and two fhort, of the length of the tube, capillary. Antherz 
vefatile. Germen roundifh. Style filiform, ahout the length of the 
tube. Stigmata two, tapering, fpreading. Capfule a roundith berry, 
divided into four parts, each containing a folitary ovate feed, of a 
blackith grey colour, 
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