Duranta. | VERBENACE (Pearson). 211 
petiole finely pubescent, 2-4 lin. long; lamina 2-21 in. long, 
3-1; in. broad; racemes terminal and axillary, simple or panicled, 
many-flowered, lax, erect or drooping, 2-6 in. long; flowers blue, 
bracteate, on short pubescent pedicels ; bracts very small, subulate, 
pubescent, the lower sometimes leafy; calyx of the flower tubular, 
with 5 very short subulate teeth, minutely puberulous without, 
2-23 lin. long; corolla-tube at least twice as long as the calyx, 
curved, pubescent without in the upper half, puberulous within ; 
limb pubescent, unequally lobed; drupe (when mature) globose, 
about the size of a pea, deeply 4-furrowed, completely enclosed in 
the accrescent calyx; pyrene 2-21 lin. long. Bot. Reg. t. 244; 
Walp. Rep. iv. 79; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 615; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 287. 
KaLanaRI ReGion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke, 32! by the Nyl 
River, north of the Mission Station, Nelson, 109! Kaap River Valley, near 
Barberton, Galpin, 1248! 
KasTeRN Region: Natal; without precise locality, Sanderson, 294 ! 
A native of Tropical America, widely introduced (frequently cultivated) in 
the Old World. , 
XII. VITEX, Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, rarely more or less funnel-shaped, 5-toothed 
or 5-lobed, very rarely 3-lobed, usually enlarged in the fruit. 
Corolla: tube cylindric, slightly dilated at the throat, usually short, 
erect or curved; limb spreading, oblique, sub-2-lipped, 5-lobed ; 
2 posterior lobes shorter than the other 3 and outside them in bud, 
helmet-shaped, erect or reflexed, the anterior lobe the largest, entire 
or emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted or included ; 
anther-cells distinct, parallel, diverging or curved, affixed to the 
filament by their apices. Ovary of 2 carpels, during flowering 
4-celled with 1 ovule in each cell affixed laterally at or above the 
middle of the septum ; style slender, shortly and acutely bitid at the 
apex. Drupe sessile, rarely enclosed in the usually acerescent calyx, 
with more or less fleshy epicarp and a hard or bony 4-celled endo- 
carp. Seeds obovate or oblong, exalbuminous. 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous, tomentose or villous, usually with depressed sessile 
glands on the leaves and flowers; leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of 3, 
frequently digitately compound, with 3-7 petiolulate or sessile, entire or dentate, 
coriaceous or membranous leaflets, sometimes 1-foliolate or simple; cymes axillary, 
sessile or pedunculate, dense or loosely divaricate or arranged in a terminal 
racemose panicle or, rarely, contracted and capitate; flowers white, blue, violet 
or yellow ; bracts small, seldom exceeding the calyx. _ é 
About 120 species in the warm regions of both hemispheres, a few extending 
to the temperate regions in South Europe and Asia. 
The following South African species belong to the subgenus Agnus-Castus 
(Endl.) the characters of which are: —Calyx cup-shaped or campanulate with a 
short truncate or 5-lobed or -toothed limb. Corolla with an erect or reflexed 
upper lip, 
Section 1. Terminates. Cymes arranged in a terminal nL phe 
panicle ie Be aa. sé ent ... (1) mooiensis. 
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