8. Vitei.] 82. VEB.BENACE&. 



A large strongly scented shrub 6-12 ffc. sometimes sub- 

 irboreous, covered with a fine hoary tomentum, with 3-5- 

 foliolate leaves and white or lilac flowers in oblong panicles 

 2-8" long. 



Frequent in waste ground and hedges in all the districts. Fls. and Ft. 

 most of the year, esp. May-June. Evergreen. 



Lflti. lanceolate entire or orenate glabrate above 2-6", lateral sessile or 



shortly petioluled, other petiolules i-1". Panicles with short branches 



i-f '' long. Fls. £-£ greatest diam, puberulous outside, palate hairy, lobes 



of upper lip smaller and paler than the lateral. Drupes globose \" diam. 



It is used as a stomachic 



Var. with much smaller 3-foliolate leaves, petioluled leaflets and very 

 dense contracted panicles of white flowers \" across. Drupes 2-seeded. 

 Near the Sone mixed with the ordinary variety. 



2. V. leucoxylon, L.f. 



A large shrub 4-12 ft. with pnbescent shoots, 3-5-foliolate 

 nearly glabrous leaves, lanceolate leaflets, and white lipped 

 flowers J" across (greatest diameter) in divaricate peduncled 

 cymes, often sab-sessile in the forks (but not so regularly 

 dichasial as in V. glabrata). 



Along rivers in Gangpur. Also near Pachamba in Hazanbagh. 

 Camp. Herb ! (.The latter a 3-foliolate variety with panicles exceeding 

 the leaves). 

 Fls. May-June. Fr. Oct-Nov. Evergreen P 



I. rarely reduced to one small leaflet. Ljltg. entire or in very young 

 plants serrate, V by |* to 4£" by 1£" acuminate coriaceous shining above 

 pale beneath, often woolly on either side of the mid-rib beneath, otherwise 

 glabrous. Mid-rib prominent, sec. n. scarcely raised, more distinct above, 

 finely reticulate between. Petiole ls-3". Petiolules \-l". Panicles 3- 6" 

 long peduncled with usually 2 linear bracts £* long at the first fork only. 

 Calyx •&. Cor-tube nearly twice as long, corolla densely ap pressed hairy 

 without. Mid-lobe of lower lip 1" villoas. Drupe J-f'' seated on the 

 enlarged scarcely lobed calyx. 



3. V. glabrata, B.Br. Bhadu, 8. 



A tree, often large attaining 6 ft. girth, with thinly 

 pubescent shoots and tomentosely-hairy buds, mostly 5- 

 foliolate leaves sometimes resembling those of the Simal tree 

 (V. bomb&cifolia was W allien' s very happy name for it) with 

 large leaflets permanently sparsely appressed hairy beneath. 



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