ANISOMELES. 



with prominent veins beneath, wrinkled above, clothed with whitish 

 down on both sides, but less so than the stem. Flowers collected into 

 short, pedunculated, axillary clusters, which spread round the stem, 

 forming whorls, of which the uppermost are so close, as to constitute 

 an uninterrupted spike. Bracteas filiform, pubescent, nearly the length 

 of the calyx, 1 or 2 to each flower. Calyx 5-cleft, ]0-angled, thickly 

 covered with long, white, somewhat viscid pubescence. Corolla 

 2-lipped ; upper lip entire, shorter than the stamens, obtuse, white ; 

 under one large. 3-cleft, lateral divisions obtuse, reflexed, the middle 

 one orbicular, 2-lobed, with the sides bent downwards : throat hairy, 

 spotted with purple and marked with a streak of the same colour down 

 the middle. Stamens ascending, hairy. Anthers deep purple, opening 

 transversely, the longer ones 1-celled, the shorter ones 2-celled ; the 

 cells transverse. Stigma 2-cleft, with divaricated lobes. Wight. 

 Patients suffering from ague are made to inhale the vapour arising from 

 an infusion of this plant. Copious perspiration ensues, which is kept 

 up for some time by drinking more of the infusion. Wight. The leaves 

 which are bitter and astringent are taken in India to assist digestion, 

 and to impart tone to the stomach. 



VERBENACE^E. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 277. 



VITEX. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla bilabiate ; the upper 

 lip bifid, the lower trifid, with the middle segment largest. 

 Stamens somewhat protruding ; anthers oval, erect. Style fili- 

 form ; stigma bifid. Drupe globose, 4-celled, 4-seeded. 



1030. V. trifolia Linn, sp.pl. 890. Roxb. fl. ind. iii. 69. 

 (Burm. zeyl. t. 109. Rheede ii. t. 10. Rumph. iv. t. 18.) 

 Various parts of the East Indies. 



Young shoots round and villous. Leaves opposite, ternate. Leaflets 

 all sessile, ovate, oblong, entire, hoary underneath ; the pair from 1 to 2 

 inches long, and the terminal one much longer ; petioles about an inch 

 long, and hoary. Panicles terminal, linear-oblong, composed of bra- 

 chiate and dichotomous ramifications ; every part hoary. Flowers 

 small, of a lively light blue colour. Bracts minute. Calyx campanu- 

 late, hoary ; mouth slightly 5-toothed. Corolla with the lower lobe 

 longer and undivided; the lower lateral ones turned up against the 

 upper lip, which appears 4-lobed. Stamens as long as the corolla. 

 Ovary round, 2-celled ; style as long as the corolla; stigma of 2 filiform 

 spreading lobes. Drupe round, smooth, when ripe black, size of a 

 small pea, the stone of the same shape as the drupe, 4-celled. Seeds 

 solitary. Albumen, when the seeds are quite ripe, none. Embryo 

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