ORD. XX. Personata. 378 
VITEX AGNUS CASTUS. 1 CHASTE-TREE, 
SYNONYM4A. Agnus Castes. Pharm. Geoff tii. 44. Dale. 297. 
Alston. tt. 321. Bergius. 550. Murray. ti. 195. Lewis. 97. 
Edinb. New Dispens. 119. Vitex foliis angustioribus cannabis 
modo dispositis.  Bazih. Pin. A75. Vitex ‘sive Agnus castus, 
Ger. Emac. 1387. Vitex folio angusto. Park. Theat. 1437. 
Agnus folio non serrato. aii. Hist. 1696. 
_Didynamia Angiospermia, Lin. Gen. ee 790. 
Gen: Ch. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. limbus 6-fidus, Becca 4-sperma, 
Sp. Ch. V. foliis digitatis serratis, spicis verticilatis: 
THIS small tree or shrub divides into numerous branches; is 
covered with a greyish bark, and the young shoots are clothed with 
a downy substance. Leaves digitated, opposite, on long footstalks, 
separating into five or seven portions, which are aon narrow, 
elliptical, entire; pointed, on the upper side smooth, under side 
downy. Flowers purplish, on short peduncles, in whorled spikes. 
Calyx short, tubular, downy: margin irregular, toothed. Corolla 
monopetalous, ringent: tube short, cylindrical: limb divided into 
four segments, of which the undermost is the largest. Filaments 
four, two long, and two short, of the length of the tube, capillary. 
Antherz veuatite: Germen roundish. “Style filiform, about the 
length of the tube. Stigmata two, tapering, spreading. Capsule a 
roundel berry, divided into four parts, each containing a solitary 
ovate seed, of a blackish grey colour. 
The Chaste-tree is a native of Sicily, a ffec is 1g humid 
sei It has long been introduced into the : ‘dens of 
try,* where it is found to” brave the cold of wint » 
ground. . 
* It was cultivated here in 1570. Label. Advers. 425, x 
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