VERBENACEAE. 333 
ViTEx. Chaste Tree. 
(Family Verbenaceae). 
Soft - wooded peppery - aromatic 
shrubs or half-shrubs: deciduous. 
Stems compressed at the nodes, 
quadrangular with obtuse or flat- 
tened angles, rather slender: pith 
relatively large, more or less an- 
gled, white, continuous and homo- 
geneous. Buds superposed, ses- 
sile or the upper commonly de- 
veloping the first season, subglo- 
bose, the 1 or 2 pairs of leaf-rudi- 
- ments or scales concealed in pu- 
bescence. Leaf-scars opposite, U- 
shaped, rather small, low; the 
surtace usually torn and the soli- 
tary bundle-trace indistinct:  sti- 
pule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references:— 
Vitex Agnus-castus. Schneider, f. 
191. V. Negundo. Shirasawa, 
270, pl. 10. V. trifolia unifolio- 
lata. Shirasawa, 270. 
Stems gray-puberulent. V. Agnus-castus. 
