Gmelina.] cxi. VERBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 583 



obtuse, size of a large olive, smooth, ripe bright crimson, 1-celled; endocarp clavate, 

 4-rornered, 4-celled, perforated from the base up the centre. Seed solitary, lanceolate. 

 The foregoing is extracted from Roxburgh, and indicates a remarkable tree that no 

 one else lias seen. There is at Kew an unpublished drawing of Roxburgh's of this 

 tree, agreeing exactly with the description. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



G. SPECIOSISSIMA, Don Prodr. 104, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 680, is Wightia 

 gigantea, Wall. 



XIII. VITEX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; shoots hairy or tomentose. Leaves opposite, digitately 

 3-5-foliolate (in V. simplicifolia 1-foliolate). Inflorescence terminal and 

 axillary, or wholly axillary ; cymes peduncled or sessile, forming large or 

 small panicles or corymbs ; bracts small or longer than the calyx. Calyx 

 campanulate, truncate or shortly 5-toothed (in V. gamosepala 3-toothed). 

 Corolla small, tubular ; limb 2-lipped, 5-toothed ; central lobe of the lower lip 

 usually much larger than the others. Stamens 4, didynainous. usually exserted; 

 anther-cells at first parallel pendulous, afterwards divaricate, often twisting 

 so that their lower ends are suberect. Ovary ,2-4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style 

 filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe globose or obovoid, supported by the more or 

 less enlarged calyx ; endocarp bony 4-, or by suppression 3-1-celled. Seeds 

 obovate or oblong. Species 60; in all tropical and warm temperate 

 regions. 



Subgenus 1. Euaprnus, Schauer. Calyx cup-shaped, shortly subequally 

 5-toothed or truncate. 



* Panicles terminal, penultimate axiHary peduncles often added. 



1. V. trifolia, Linn. f. SuppL 293 ; leaves simple and 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets sessile obovate or obovate-oblong entire glabrate above beneath and 

 panicles closely white-tomentose, corolla - in., drupe in. diam. black. 

 Jtxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 69; Wall. Cat. 1743; Bot. Mag. t. 2187 ; Schauer in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 683 ; Bedd. For. Man. 172 ; Brand. For. Fl. 370. V. ovata, 

 Thunb. FL Jap. 257; Hook. 8f Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 206, t. 47. Y. repens, 

 Jifit i/co Fl. Filip. 513. V. incisa, Wall. Cat. 1746 partly, not of Lamk. 

 \. AU.UUS castus. var. Kurz For. FL ii. 269. Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 18. 

 Rheede Hart. Mai. ii. t. 11. 



Scattered throughout INDIA, in the tropical and subtropical region, from the foot 

 of the Himalaya to CEYLON and Malacca, nowhere common. DISTBIB. S.E. Asia to 

 Japan, the Philippines and N. Australia. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaflets 1-3 in., subobtuse, tomentum beneath of matted 

 scarcely stellate hairs, so close as with difficulty to be scraped off; petiole 1 in. Panicles 

 14 in., oblong, often leafy at the base; bracts minute. Calyx - in., minutely 5- 

 toothed. Corolla tomentose, lavender to blue. Filaments hairy at the base. Perhaps 

 commoner than supposed, being frequently unnoticed from its close general resemblance 

 to the universal V. Negundo. 



2. V. Negfundo, Linn.; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 70; leaves 3-5-foliolate, 

 leaflets petioluled lanceolate entire or crenate glabrate above beneath and 

 panicles" closely white-tomentose, corolla \% in., drupe \ in. diam. black. 



Wall. Cat. 1744; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xl, 684; Wight Ic. t. 519; Bedd. 

 For. Man. 171; Bran/.. Fur. Fl. 369; Kurz For. FL ii. 269; Boiss. FL 



Orient, iv. 535. V. bicolor, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 660 ; Schauer I. c. 

 683 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201. Y. arborea, Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris. 391. 



