Vitex. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 69 
VITEX. Schreb. gen. N. 1060. 
Calyx campanulate, five-toothed. Coro/ ringent. Anthers 
twin. Germ superior, generally two-ceiled ; cells two-seed- 
ed; attachment central. Drupe with a four-celled nut. 
Embryo erect, without perisperm. 
1. V. trifolia, Willd, iii, 392. 
Sub-arboreous. Leaves ternate ; leaflets all sessile, obovate, 
oblong, hoary underneath. Panicles terminal, with brachi- 
ate, dichotomous ramifications, 
Cara-nosi, Rheed. Mal. ii, t. Ne il. 
Lagondium vulgare. Rumph. Amb. ii. t. 10. pis 
A small tree, or large shrub, a antivecaf xteiouil sprain of 
India, and its Islands, The leaves of this plant are a power- | 
ful discutient, and by the Malays employed to remove the 
boss, The following is their recipe, furnished, by W. Ewer 
Esq. The leaves are given in decoction, and infusion, 
and formed into a cataplasm, which is applied to the en- 
larged spleen. In very obstinate cases it becomes neces- 
sary to have recourse to gentle mercurials, - ya rigs bps 
Young shoots round and villous, Leaves iestbdaha! ternate, 
Leaflets all sessile, ovate, oblong, entire, hoary underneath ; 
the pair from one to two inches long, and the terminal one 
much longer, Petioles about an inch long, and hoary. Stipu= 
les none. Panieles terminal, linear-oblong, composed of bra- 
chiate and dichotomous ramifications, every part hoary. 
Flowers small, of a lively light blue purple. Bractes minute, 
Calyx campanulate, hoary; mouth slightly five-toothed. 
Coral with the lower lip longer and undivided ; the upper 
lip four-lobed. “Stamina as long as the corol, Anthers twin, 
ie round, two-celled, with ovula in each attached to the 
two angles of the septal receptacle. Style as long as the 
corol. Stigma of two filiform spreading lobes. Drupe 
round, smooth, when ripe black, size of a small pea, one-cell- 
ed, — conform Show fomcchot: pearly al] fer- 
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