Vitex, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 71 
3. V. paniculata, Lamarck Encycl. ii, 606, 
Arboreous, Leaves digitate, quinate; Jeaflets ovate-lan- 
ceolate, entire ; the exterior oue petiolate, the two inferior ones 
small, and sessile ; smooth above, hoary underneath, Pani- 
cles terminal. 
A native of the Moluccas, I doubt whether it es any thing 
more than a broad-leaved, luxuriant variety of Wegunda. 
Rumphius, 19th plate of the Ath vol. of his Herbarium Am- 
boinense, is a bad representation of this plant, though no doubt 
intended for it. 
4. V. altissima, Linn, Suppl, 294. : 
Arboreous. Leaves ternate; leaflets lanceolate, entire, 
acuminate, Panicles terminal, composed of opposite, stad 
celled, simple ramifications. 
This, the most stately tree of the genus which I have yet 
met with, is a native of the mountainous forests of Coromandel. 
In Dr, Anderson’s garden near Madras, it flowers in July and 
August, The same has since been found in the eastern parts 
of Bengal, where it flowers in June, “ 
Trunk erect, of very considerable magnitude, and cover- 
ed with smooth greenish gray bark. Branches numerous, 
spreading. Leaves opposite, ternate. Leaflets sessile, entire, 
acute, somewhat downy, with the upper surface of a deep 
green, and the lower one pale, from three to six inches long, 
and from one to two broad. Petioles common, somewhat 
channelled, and though long, they are shorter than the leaf- 
lets. _Panicles terminal, composed of a few long, simple, op- 
posite, pairs of sub-verticelled, downy spikes, At a more 
advanced age, what appeared verticels while young, become 
two opposite, short, bifid, or trifid secund spikes. Flowers 
numerous, small, collected, into short-peduncled, opposite 
fascicles, which appear like verticels.. Bractes lanceolate, — 
concave, downy. Calyx downy, the segments rather un- 
equal. Corol, &c. as in the family, Germ ovate, four-celled, 
with one ovulum in oot attached to the pagpition: Style fal- 
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