430 XCTII, VERBENACE E. 



4. Vitex leucoxylon, Linn. f. Supj)!. (1781) p. 293. A large 

 decieluous tree with spreading head; trunk thick, short ; bark smooth, 

 light-colored; young parts more or less pubescent. L:'aves 3-5-£oliolate 

 (when 5-foliolate the basal pair of leaflets much smaller than the other 

 pair) ; leaflets petiolulate, oblong, subobtuse, the terminal leaflet usually 

 the largest, rearhing 3-4 by 1-1 j in., all glabrous above, pale and more 

 or less hairy with yellowish hairs on each side of the midrib and with 

 close reticulate venation beneath, base usually acute, often unequal- 

 sided; petiolules -^ in. long ; common petioles 1,t-2 in. long, not winged. 

 Fiou ers fragrant, in axillary pedunculate lax corymbose cymes ; peduncles 

 1-2-1- in, long; bracts j^ in. long, lanceolate, caducous. Calyx pubes- 

 cent or tomentose, g in. long; teeth 5, small, triangular. Corolla 

 I in. long, pubescent outside, white with purplish hairs (Triinen) • 

 upper lip -^ in. long, divided to the middle into 2 rounded lobes ; 

 lower lip 3-lobed, | in. long, nearly as broad across the 2 obtuse 

 lateral lobes, the middle lobe broadly obovate, projecting, hairy in 

 the centre with purplish hairs and with crisped margin. Filaments 

 hairy at the base. Ovary densely hairy at the top with erect white 

 hairs. Drupe | in. long, succulent, obovoid, blunt, dark purple when 

 ripe, supported on the enlarged flattened calyx ; stone large, 4-celled 

 and 4-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 587 ; G-rah. Cat. p. 1515 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 201 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clxxi ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 358 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p! 271 ; Wooilr. in .Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 v. 12 (1899) p. 359. Wullrothia leucoxylon, Eoth, iVov. PI. Sp. (1821) 

 p. 319 ; Wight, Icon. t. 14G7. — Flowers : Feb.-Apr. Verx. Shtras. 



KoNKAN : Law'.; Qhits, Talbot; banks of the Savitree River near Potidpur, 

 Graham; Atgaon (Tliaiia districts), Woodrowl Deccan : Kliandala, Graham; Koina 

 Valley below Mahableahwar, Cookel ; Limba^aon (Sattara districts), Woodrowl S. M. 

 Country: Duddi, Law ex Graham. Kanara: N. Kaiiara Gb;its along the banks of 

 rivers and nalas in moist forests, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; C?ylou. 



11. CLERODENDRON, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs sometimes sarmentose. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-4- 

 nate, simple, entire or toothed. Flowers in axillary cymes or terminal 

 panicles often leafy below ; bracts conspicuous or small ; bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx campanulate, truncate or 5-toothed or almost 5-partite, persistent, 

 often accrescent or colored. Corolla-tube slender, usually long; limb 

 more or less oblique, with 5 spreading lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 much-exserted ; anthers ovate or oblong, the cells parallel. Ovary 

 imperfectly 4-celled ; ovule solitary i)i each c(!ll ; style filiform ; stigma 

 shortly 2-fld. Fruit a globose succulent (very rarely dry) drupe, 4- 

 grooved, separating into 4 pyrenes, of which 1-3 are sometimes sup- 

 pressed. Seeds oblong ; albumen 0. — Distkib. Chiefly in the warm 

 regions of the Old World, a few in Tropical America; species about 100. 



Cymes few-flowered, axillary, distinct; calj-x slightly enlarged 



in fruit ; a straggling or subscandent slirub 1. C. inerme. 



Cymes collectively forming a terminal panicle. 

 Calyx not enlarged in fruit. 



Calyx-lobes long, ovate, acuminate ; leaves opposite, less 



than .3 in. long 2. C. Phlomidis. 



Calyx-lobes very short, broadly tnaiigidar; leaves often 



in whurl.^ of ."{, reai-liing more than (i in. long .3. C. scrratum. 



Calyx much enlarged in fruit turning red 4. C, infort uiiatum. 



