586 cxi. VERBENACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Vitex. 



A medium-sized tree (Maingay). Leave? (all the upper) 3-foliolate, a small leaflet 

 rarely added; leaflets 5 by 2^ in., obtuse, tip usually less than in., with scattered 

 white glands above and yellow beneath, petiolule of the middle leaflet often \ in. ; 

 petiole 1-2 in., not winged. Panicles 8 by 5 in,, terminal, penultimate sometmies 

 added; cymes densely flowered clustered along the branches; bracts in., linear, 

 deciduous. Calyx minutely toothed at flower-time, much enlarged, \ in. diam., 

 roundly 5-lobed in fruit. Corolla \- in. Drupe -\ in., apiculate. This species 

 differs from all the preceding by (inter alia) the large drupe. The inflorescence, 

 calyx, corolla and drupe are so like those of V. sumatrana (Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 567), that it may be a var. of it ; but in V. sumatrana the leaves are mostly 

 5-foliolate and pubescent beneath. 



10. V. coriacea, Clarke ; leaves 3-foliolate coriaceous glabrous, 

 leaflets petioluled oblong entire, panicles terminal fulvous-pubescent, flowers 

 clustered on the elongate branches, calyx T ' n in. 5-toothed. Yitex n. 13, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



MALACCA; G-riffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6065), Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 1203). 



Sranchlets round, tips puberulous. Leaflets 4 by 1| in., obtuse or acute, beneath 

 minutely glandular and with thick elevated nerves, petiolule of the central leaflet 

 -| in., petiole 1-2 in., not winged. Panicles 6 by 3 in., strict, branches elongate 

 ascending; bracts in., oblong, fulvous-pubescent, deciduous; cymes condensed 

 almost to clusters. Calyx fulvous-pubescent, wide funnel-shaped, in flower con- 

 spicuously 5-toothed; in fruit enlarged, cup-shaped, subtruncate. Corolla \ in., 

 fulvous-pubescent, as are the pistil and filaments. Drupe ^ by ^ in., teretely ellipsoid, 

 very smooth. 



11. V. canescens, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 101, and For. Fl. 

 ii. 270 ; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets petioluled ovate or elliptic entire young 

 fulvous-villous, panicles compound fulvous-pubescent branches elongate 

 pedicels whorled. 



ASSAM; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6066), Masters. PEGU; M'Lelland, Kurz. 

 DISTRIB. Ava. 



A tree, 20-30 ft., or a shrub (Griffith) ; innovations fulvous- or dusky-pubescent. 

 Leaves (upper alone seen) 3-foliolate, or (Kurz) 5-foliolate; leaflets 4% by 2 in., 

 mature scabrid or glabrate fulvous-pubescent on the nerve* ; petiolule of the middle 

 leaflet | in. ; petiole 2 in., fulvous-pubescent, not winged. Panicles 12 by 6 in., 

 with numerous elongate spreading branches ; bracts very small, deciduous ; pedicels 

 T2~6 m - Calyx ,'g in., pubescent, very shortly toothed. Corolla % in., fulvous-tomen- 

 tose. Drupe $-% in. diam., globose, smooth. Vitex csnesceus, Wall. Cat. 1757, is 

 not in Wallich's Herbarium ; Kurz does not state whether he intended or guessed his 

 own V. canescens to be the same as Wallich's or no. 



12. V. Wimberleyi, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 271 ; leaves 5-3-foliolate gla- 

 brous, leaflets petioluled elliptically oblong or lanceolate coarsely crenate- 

 serrate, panicles terminal and penultimate puberulous. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; Kurz. 



A small evergreen tree, much resembling V. sumatrana. Petioles 2-3 in., 

 slender, glabrous. Flowers small, clustered or cymulose ; bracts caducous, lower 

 leaf -like, upper linear-oblong as long as the calyces. Calyx g in., subtruncate, velvety. 

 Corolla pubescent ; tube wide, short ; lobes obtuse, lowest much produced. Not seen ; 

 the foregoing is copied from Kurz. Imperfect specimens of a plant collected by me 

 in the Chittagong Hills show similar coarsely crenate-serrate leaflets, but have the 

 petioles winged ; it may be the young state of this species. 



13. V. simplicifolia, Clarke ; leaves 1-foliolate coriaceous glabrous, 

 leaflet lanceolate entire, panicles terminal branches elongate, calyx ^- in. 

 fulvous -hairy pedicelled. Vitex nn. 14 and 11, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



