Vi/ex.] Verbenacece, 357 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Australia. 



The foliage is pleasantly aromatic. There is no specimen or drawing 

 in Hermann's Herb., and the figure in Burm. Thes. t. 109 referred to this 

 by Willdenovv is certainly not a Vitex at all. 



1. V. Meg-undo,^ L. Sp. PI. 638 (1753). Nika, Nil-nika, 

 Sudu-nika, .S. Vennochcbi, T. 



Herm. Mus. 47. Burm. Thes. 229. Fl. Zeyl. n. 414. Moon Cat. 46. 

 Thw. Enum. 244. C. P. 183, 1956. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 583. Rheede, Hort. Malab. ii. t. 12. Wight, Ic. t. ag 

 (bad). 



A shrub or small slender tree, branchlets quadrangular, 

 finely pubescent; 1. palmate, petiole \\-2\ in., slender, 

 pubescent, Iflts. 3 or 5, the two lowest smaller and nearly 

 sessile, the others long-stalked, 3-4 in., linear-lanceolate, 

 acute and often unequal at base, tapering to very acute apex, 

 nearly glabrous above (when mature), densely covered with 

 fine white pubescence beneath; fl. numerous, on very short 

 pubescent ped., cymes small, stalked, opp., on erect branches 

 of erect pyramidal terminal panicle, bracts caducous ; cal. 

 small, pubescent, segm. short, triangular; cor. pubescent out- 

 side, tube hairy within, 4 upper lobes short, triangular, lowest 

 one large, rounded, forming lower lip; drupe under \ in., 

 nearly globose, black. 



Low country, borders of streams, especially in the dry region, 

 common; also much grown in native gardens. Fl. all the year; bright 

 lilac-blue. 



Throughout India, Afghanistan, Eastern Asia, and the Philippine Is. 



There is no specimen or drawing in Herb. Hermann. 



Leaves sweetly aromatic when bruised. They are much used in 

 native medicine as a fomentation in rheumatism; the root is also 

 employed as a tonic. 



3. V. altissima, L. f. Siippl. PI. 294 (1781). Milla, Miyan- 

 milla, Sapu-milla, .S. Kaddamanakku, T. 



V. trifolia., Moon Cat. 46 (non L.). Thw. Enum. 244. C. P. 1958. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 584. Wight, Ic. t. 1466. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 252. 



A very large tree, with a dense head and somewhat droop- 

 ing branches, bark yellowish-grey, vertically cracked ; 1. com- 

 pound, petiole about 2\ in,, glabrous, sometimes very slightly 

 winged, thickened at base, Iflts. 3 (very rarely 5), sessile, 

 2|-6 in., lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous above, more or less pubescent beneath, venation 

 pellucid, lat. veins prominent beneath, intermediate venation 

 minutely reticulate; fl. numerous, on very short ped., erect, 



* Negunda is said by Rheede to be the Hindu name of this and 

 V. trifolia., and is given by Garcia ab Orto, Acosta, and other early 

 writers. 



