XCVII. VKRBEXACE.15. 427 



pubescent paniculate corymbose cymes ; bracts minute, lanceolate. 

 Calyx j\, in. long, thick, glabrous, 2-lipped, one lip 2-toothed, the other 

 subeutu-e (so that the calyx appears u-lobed). Corolla glabrous outside; 

 tube g by j^^ in., cylindric, hairy in the throat inside ; lobes 4, oblong, 

 rounded, -}■^^- in. long. Stamens slightly exserted ; filaments hairy at the 

 base. Ovary and style glabrous ; stigma ot 2 equal divaricate lobes. 

 IVuit ^ in. long, pear-shaped ; endocarp ridged, bonv, 4-celled, 4-seeded. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 574 ; Grab. Cat. p. 155; Wight. Icon. t. 1469 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 268 ; Woodr. in Joarn. Bomb. K"at. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 359 ; Watt, Diet. Econ, Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 337. Fremna serrati- 

 folia, Linn. Mantiss. v. 2 (1771) p. 253; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. 

 Sylvat. p. clxxii ; Trim. ¥\. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 352. F. latifolia, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 200 (not ot: Roxb.). — Flowers : June-July. Vern. Khdrd-narvel. 



KoNKAN : Lmvl, DaJzell ! Talbot ; by f-he sea-sliore near Bombay, Graham. Kanaka : 

 N. Kaiiai'a usually near the sea-coast, Talbot. — Distrib. India (near the sea from 

 Bombay to Malacca) ; Coylun, Andamans and Nicobars, Malaya. 



Doubtful and unknown Species. 



FREMNA CORDIFOLIA, Grail. Cat. Bo. PI. (1839) p. 155; Dalz. &Gibs. p. 199 {not 

 of Roxb.), wliiuh Graham describes as a small tres growing at Khaudala but not 

 common, is probably, as Mr. Talbot suggests (Trees and Shrubs Bomb. ed. 2, p. 268), 

 a form of F. integrifolia, Linn., growing on the bills. In Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 573, 

 Graham's P. cordifolia is made synonymous with P. coriacea, C. B. Clarke, while 

 Dalzell & Gibson's P. cordifolia is doubtluHy referred to P. corymbosa, Rottl. & Willd. 

 It is clear, however, from the way in which Dalzell & Gibson quote Graham, that these 

 authors meant to describe the plant indicated by the latter. 



PREMNA NIMMONIANA, Grab. Cat. Bo. PI. (1839) p. 155, is said by Graham to be 

 found on the tableLmd of Mahableshwar and on the Rotunda Ghat leading thereto 

 {fide Dr. Murray). No such plant has been found at Mahableshwar, where it is 

 described by Graham as common, and it is probable that some other plant has been 

 mistaken fur it. The fact tbat the leaves are described by Graham as alternate would 

 indicate that his plant does not belong to the genus. 



10. VITEX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; young shoots hairy or tomentose. Leaves opposite, 

 digitately 3-5-t'oliolate (sometimes simple in V. trifolia). Flowers in 

 sessile or pedunculate cymes forming large or small terminal and axillary 

 or wholly axillary panicles or corymbs ; bracts small, longer or shorter 

 than the calyx. Calyx carapanulate, truncate or shortly 5 (rarely 3) 

 -toothed. Corolla small, 2-hpped ; tube short; limb 5-lobed, the middle 

 lobe of the lower lip much the largest. Stamens 4, didynamous, usually 

 exserted; anther-cells at first parallel and pendulous, afterwards 

 divaricate, often twisting so that the lower ends are erect. Ovary 

 2-4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit a 

 globose or ovoid drupe, invested at the base by the somewhat enlarged 

 calyx ; endocarp bony, normally 4-celled and 4-seeded, but some of the 

 cells often suppressed. Seeds obovate or oblong; albumen 0. — Distbib. 

 Species 120 in all tropical and warm temperate regions. 



Panicles terminal (axillary peduncles sometimes present in the 

 upper leaf-axils). 



Slirubs or small trees. 



Leaves 3- and 5-foliolate ; leaflets petioluled, lanceolate. 1. V. Negundi>. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate and simple ; leaflets sessile, obovate- 



oblong 2. r. trifolia. 



