66 XCII. VERBENACEJE. | Gmelina. 
eichhardtii, F. Muell. A fine timber tree, attaining a 
ied ipis the young "branches edi in — tomentose. Leaves 
unded o 
Quee Myall Creek, Leichhardt ; Moreton Pay, W. Hill, Haee -— 
— Tinh bition, 1862, n. 30; Pine river, Fitzalan 
. S. Wales. eol river, Beckler, W. Moore, N. S. Wales woods, London 
Eit 1862, n. 68 and 171, * White Beach, " ms " Macarthur, Paris Exhibition 
1855, n 
S 
18. VITEX, Linn. 
a succulent M < dis utamen ' separating into 4 hard m 
n i or 
single (or of a single leaflet). Flow cymes, sometimes e 
but usually in terminal panicles either ots and spike: like or branche 
Bracts very sm 
A considerable Ra and subtropical genus, shielly Asiatic or goes with a few 
American species, and one species extendin urope. Of the four Australian 
«ceni one is widely bread over the Old World v within the tropics, ihé p others | 
are e i ; 
filii vina vectes undivided or of 3 or 5 leaflets. . . . ^ V. trifolia. 
Leaves green on both s ides, n ndiv pu es ee) «Rech vui 2. V. lignum vitæ. 
Leaves green p both sides, of 3 or 5 leafle 
Flowers in loose thyrsoid sd die aua ie nal V. acuminata. 
Flowers in very loose dichotomous cymes on perros peduncles z V. glabrata. 
1. V. trifolia, ; Schau. in DO. Prod. xi. 683. A shrub some- 
decumbent v vend in some varieties tall and erect, ihe branches, | . 
under side of the leaves and inflorescence mealy-white 3 
variable, simple or of 3 or 5 leaflets often white on both sides, but 
