588 cxi. VERBENACE/E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Vitex. 



| in., minutely toothed, tomentose or nearly glabrous. Corolla ^ in., woolly without. 

 Drupe obovoid, succulent. In the typical form the leaflets are coriaceous, shining, 

 yellowish beneath, nervation obscure : in V. saligna, Roxb., they are more membranous, 

 the reticulated nervation distinct on both surfaces. A very handsome form with 

 broader leaflets is marked Wallrothia tomentosa by Wight ; but the extreme mem- 

 pranous narrow-leaved V. saligna (Roxburgh's specimen) shows similar hair on each 

 side the midrib beneath. 



17. V. glabrata, Br. Prodr, 512; leaves 5-3-foliolate, leaflets ovate 

 or oblong snbentire mature sparsely strigillose beneath., corymbs divaricate, 

 drape -' v&.^Sfhauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 695; Bentk. FL Austral, v. 68. 

 V. Cunninghftinii, Schauer 1. c. 690. V. leucoxylon, Schauer I. c. 692, partly, 

 Blume Bijd.&l? ;- Kurz f For. Fl. ii. 273 ; Gamble Indian Timbers, 298. V. 

 bombacifolia, Wall. Cat. 1749 ; Walp. Eep. iv. 86. V. pallida, Wall. Cat. 

 1751. Vitex nn: 10 and 18, Herb. 2nd. Or. H.f. $ T. 



From S. ASSAM and CACHAE to MALACCA, frequent. DISTRIB. Siam, Cochin 

 China, Malaya. N. Australia. 



A small tree ; shoots fulvous-tomentose or woolly. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate (in 

 the Indian tree) ; leaflets 5 by 2| in., acute or cuneate at both ends, entire rarely 

 toothed, young very softly hairy or subtomentose, mature with scattered appressed 

 minute hairs beneath ; petiolules |-f in. ; petiole 14 in., not winged. Peduncles 

 long or more often short ; flowers somewhat numerous, mostly shortly pedicelled ; 

 bracts inconspicuous. Cali/x T ' in., minutely toothed. Corolla ^-i in., tomentose, 

 ochroleucous ; lowest segment much the largest, hairy, blue-purple. Filaments 

 minutely hairy. Pistil glabrous. Drupe obovoid, succulent. The typical V. glabrata, 

 R. Br., has leaves usually 3-foliolate and rounder more glabrate leaflets and fewer-fld. 

 corymbs than" the Indian tree ; but some of the examples of V. Cunninghamii appear 

 identical with Silhet specimens. The typical V. bombacifolia, Wallich (Vitex n. 18, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T.), has the leaflets mostly 5, large and broad ; V. pallida,, 

 Walliqh (Vitex n. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T.), has smaller, more hairy leaflets, and 

 short peduncles. 



Subgenus 2. G-lossocalyx. Calyx unequally 2-lipped, deeply 3-toothed. 



18. V. g-amosepala, Griff Notul. iv. 178, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 448, 

 fig. 2 ; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets petioluled ovate or lanceolate entire glabrate 

 except the nerves beneath, cy-mes axillary sessile short. Bentk. in Gen. PL 

 ii. 1154. Vitex nn. 15, 16, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. # T. 



MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6065), Uaingay (Kew Distrib. n. 1202). 



A middle-sized tree; shoots fulvous-hairy. Leaflets 4 by 1| in., somewhat 

 coriaceous, petiolule of the middle leaflet in.*; petiole 1-2 in., not winged. Cymes 

 1-3 in. diam., globose, repeatedly 2-3-tomous, sparingly fulvous-hairy; bracts caducous. 

 Calyx 3 in. ; tube shorter than the lip, ovoid ; upper lip of two oblong segments, lower 

 twice as long, elliptic, entire. Corolla nearly \ in. ; tube narrow, glabrate, with many 

 yellow glands, limb small. Anther-cells divaricate as in Vitex type (Griffith's drawing 

 shows them very young). Drupe in., ovoid,. glabrous. The corolla as well as the 

 inflorescence shows the affinity to V. vestita. 



UNKNOWN SPECIES. 



VITEX ? AXILLAKIS, Wall. Cat. 1760, from Tavoy, is not in Wallich's Herbarium. 



VITEX HAYN&A, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46, from Chittagong (name only), is probably 

 one of the species described in Fl. Ind., under which Roxburgh has omitted to record 

 the earlier name. 



ViTiX SCABRA, Wall. Cat. 1758, from Ava (Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 695), is 

 represented by a branchlet and leaves only in Wallich's Herbarium. 



