584 cxi. VERBENACEJG. (C. B. Clarke.) [Vitex. 



V. paniculata, Lamlc. Diet. ii. 612; Roxb. 1. c. 71. Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. 

 1. 19. Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 12. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, in the warmer zone a universal plant. NICOBARS ; 

 Kurz. DISTEIB. Cabul, E. Asia to the Philippines. 



A shrub or small tree, hardly distinguishable from V. trifolia but by the poiuts 

 mentioned in the diagnosis. The leaflets are frequently 5, the centre one at least 

 usually distinctly petioluled, the flowers rather smaller. 



VAB. incisa} leaflets crenate-serrate or subpiunatifid. V. incisa, LamTc. Diet. ii. 

 611, and III. t. 541, fig. 2; Sot. Mag. t. 364; Roxb. I. c. 72; Wall. Cat. 1746, 

 partly; Schauer 1. c. 684. Throughout India. Distrib. E. Asia. The extreme 

 pinnatifid form of this var. is Chinese ; the wild Indian examples are crenate-serrate, 

 i.e. intermediate. 



3. V. altissima, Linn.f. Suppl. 294; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets sub- 

 sessile lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubescent beneath, 

 panicles compound fulvous-villous, corolla scarcely \ in., drupe 5 in. diam. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 71 ; Wall. Gal. 1755 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. (585 ; Dalz. 

 fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201 ; Wight Ic. t. 1466 ; JBedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 252 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 370. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, especially the west side, up to 4000 ft., common; Heyne, 

 Wight, &c. 



A very large tree ; shoots tawny-villous or woolly. Leaves 3-foliolate, occasionally 

 5-foliolate (Beddome) ; leaflets 5| by If in., mature glabrous above except the midrib, 

 beneath closely distinctly reticulate and with scattered round yellow glands ; petiole 

 2 in., sometimes somewhat winged upwards. Panicles 3-8 in. diam. ; branches 

 elongate, interrupted, cymes clustered ; bracts T ' 5 - in., elliptic. Calyx \ in., fulvous- 

 villous, teeth short, triangular. Corolla woolly. Ovary and young fruit fulvous- 

 villous at the apex. 



VAR. zeylanica ; mature leaves glabrate beneath. V. zeylanica, Turcz. in Bull. 

 Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 223. V. altissima (forma subglabra), Thwaites Enum. 

 244. Ceylon; Walker, Thwaites. Leaves beneath reticulate, the depressions 

 microscopically tomentose, as in V. altissima after all the hair is rubbed off. 



4. V. alata, Heyne ; Roth Nov. Sp. 316; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets 

 subsessile broadly lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubes- 

 cent beneath, wing of the petiole broad cordate at base, panicles terminal 

 compound fulvous-villous, corolla scarcely in., drupe 5 in. diam. Dalz. 8{ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201, not of Schauer. nor of Kurz. V. appendiculata, Rottler 

 in Herb. Wall.Bheede Hort. Mat. v. t. 1. 



MADRAS; VanEoyen; Tuichecoonum, Eottler. MYSORE ; Cleghorn. 



Scarcely differs from V. altissima but by the wing of the petiole, which is -| in. 

 wide, continuous, dilated, cordate and subamplexicaul at the base; leaflets 2% in. wide. 

 Some branches, apparently of this, collected by Shuter, Law, and Stocks, have 

 some of the leaves 5-foliolate. 



5. V. limonifolia, Wall. Cat. 1754; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets sessile 

 ovate entire mature pubescent beneath, petiole broadly winged, panicles long- 

 branched, cymes clustered distant, bracts prominent persistent. Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 271. V. alata, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 685, not of Heyne. 



PEGU and TENASSERIM ; Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Ava, Siam. 



A tree; shoots fulvous-hairy or woolly. Leaflets 7 by 2| in., acute at both ends, 

 mature nearly glabrate above, minutely densely fulvous-pubescent beneath ; petiole 3-4 

 by | | in. Panicles 18 by 6 in., fulvous-hairy ; branches interruptedly spicate ; 

 bracts ?- in., lanceolate, often imbricate. Calyx | in., very shortly toothed, closely 

 fulvous-strigillose. Corolla \ in., fulvous-villous. Drupe ^ in. diam., globose, smooth. 

 The leaves are exceedingly like those of V. pubescens, except that the petiole is 

 winged ; the elongated interrupted panicle-branches are quite different. 



