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VITEX. Schreh. gen. X. 1060. 



Ca/j/.r campanulate, five-loothed. Carol r'mgent. Anthers 

 twin. Germ superior, generall)' two-ctriled ; cells t\A o-seed- 

 ed ; attachnieut central. Drupe with a four-celled nut. 

 Embryo erect, without perisperni. 



1. V. tri/olia. WHld. iii. 392. 



Sub-arboreous. Leaves teruate ; leajlcts all sessile, obovate, 

 oblong-, hoary underneath. Panicles terminal, with brachi- 

 ate, dichotomous ramifications. 



Cara-nosi. Rheed. Mai. ii. t, 10. 



Lagondium vulgare. Riimph. Amh. ii. t, 10. 



A small tree, or large shrub, a native of various parts 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. 



Yonvfj shoots round and villous. Zmves opposite, 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. Panicles 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. 

 Corol with the loiver lip longer and undivided ; the upper 

 lip four-lobed. Stamina as long as the corol. Anthers twin. 

 Germ round, two-celled, with ovula in each attached to the 

 two angles of the septal receptacle. Style as long as the 

 corol. Stic/ma of two filiform spreading lobes. Drupe 

 round, smooth, when ripe black, size of a small pea, one-cell- 

 ed. J^^ut conform to the drupe, four-celled, nearly all fer- 



