7A DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Vitex, 
somewhat gibbous, rather longer than the calyx, inside hairy 
at the bottom; throat compressed laterally ; border two-lip- 
ped; the upper lip erect, two-cleft; the under lip reflexed, 
three-cleft, having the middle division largest, concave, and 
of a deep blue colour. Filaments twice the length of the 
tube, subulate. .Anthers, split from the bottom up. Style, 
length of the filaments. | Drupe, of the size and appearance — 
of a black currant, smooth, succulent, Nut turbinate, very 
hard, four-celled. Seed solitary, obovate-oblong. dntegu- 
ments two, botli thin, soft, and rather succulent. Perisperm 
none, Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Ra- 
dicle oval, inferior. 
The wood of this tree when old is of a chocolate sie ex- 
ceedingly hard and phe hick 1 va- 
rious perpedees ak. 
- v. hinighav Willd. ii. 392. 
Leaves digitate, quinate; leaflets petiolate, oblong, very 
generally entire, both sides smooth. Panic/es axillary, di- 
chotomous. ‘ a 
Kariil. Rheed. Mal. iv. t. 36, 
A native of Ceylon, Coromandel, and the mountains sof 
Chittagong, &c. Flowering time the month of April. 
Trunk laterally straight, and in its native mountains grow- — | 
ing to be a tree of very considerable size, Bark soft, spongy 
and cracked on the outside. Branches rather scarce and 
spreading. Young shoots round and smooth. Leaves opposite, — 
long-petioled, digitate, quinate, rarely ternate; leaflets peti- 
oled, oblong, generally entire, rather obtuse-pointed, smooth 
and polished, from two to six inches long, and from one to 
three broad. Petioles nearly as long the leaflets, round and ~ 
smooth, Stipules none. Panicles axillary, solitary, long- 
peduncled, throughout dichotomous, with a sessile flower in 
the forks, drooping, ramifications tending to be angular, and 
most slightly villous. Flowers numerous, fragrant, pretty 
large, of a whitish straw colour, with the centre of the lower . 
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