342 VERBENACEAE. [ Vitex. 
til. L. Camara, L. — DC. Prod. XI, 598. — A spreading shrub with 
long weak branches, often armed with short recurved prickles and more 
or less hairy. Leaves petiolate, ovate or slightly cordate, crenate, 2—3’ 
long, wrinkled, and very rough with short stiff hairs. Peduncles stiff, as 
long as the leaves or longer, Flowers inches or orange, turning to a dee 
red, the heads not lengthening into spi racts linear-lanceolate, 
ghiintoe than the corolla. Corolla-tube 3—4“ ‘au. the lobes of the limb 
short and broad. Putamen of fleshy drupe wrinkled and excavated on 
both sides of the base, at length eplitting into two nuts. 
ica; introduced in 1858, but now well 
natur: , as it is in ma er countries, chiefl the rege of birds which feed 
on the aromatic berries. It varies greatl to color of flo me are nearly ite 
— L. trifoliata, L., a smaller 1 shrub with pinkish flowers, ce existed in gardens 
about the same length of time without spreading. 
. VITEX, L. 
Calyx 5-toothed or lobed. Corolla-tube short, the limb spreading, 
5- “hye oe lower lobe larger and longer than the others. Stamens 4 in 
pairs, exserted. Ovary 4-celled, ovules pendulous. Style acutely 2- lobed. 
Fruit a re celled drupe. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually digitate, but 
simple in the Hawaiian oka Flowers in cymes, sometimes axillary, 
but usually in terminal pan 
A considerable pi nes or cacti genus, chiefly Asiatic or African, with @ few 
American and Australian species, one extending into southern Europe. 
. V. trifolia, ZL. — DC. Prod. XI, 683, var. unifoliata. A low decam- 
bent shrub or frutescent herb, the branches, underside of leaves and vee 
florescence mealy-white. Leaves simple, obovate or rounded, 1—1' 
long, on petioles of 2”, entire, nearly glabrous above. Flowers Het in 
nearly sessile opposite cymes, forming short and simple terminal panicles. 
Calyx 2”, very shortly toothed, the corolla blue, 6’, with the tube am- 
pliate at the throat, both mealy-white outside. Drupe globose. — V. ovata, 
Thbg. — Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. tab. 47. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 273- 
— Mrs. Sinclair pl. 26. 
On the sandy pe ae of all islands, here and there, Waialua and Kailua, Oahu : 
always gregarious. vig ering are fragrant, Nat. name: «Polinalina». The species i 
widely spread over Siege olynesian islan a and the seashores of N. Australia and eastern 
tropical Asia, veg t generally in the form with 3 leaflets, which does not occur om the 
Hawaiian Islan 
6. CLERODENDRON, L. 
Calyx campanulate or inflated, 5-toothed or lobed. Corolla- tube slender, 
much longer than the calyx, except when the latter is inflated; the lim b 
lobes. Fruit a drupe, the kernel usually large, separating into 
2 ane “celled or 4 one-celled nuts. — Shrubs, trees or rarely herbs. 
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