Call 



Callicarpa.] LX. VERBENACE^E. 369 



with short soft stellate hairs. Leaves ovate or ovate -lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, entire, glabrous above, blade 6-12, petiole 1-2 in. long; main 

 lateral nerves 8-12 pair. Flowers lilac or light purple, with an unplea- 

 sant smell ; cymes large, spreading, twice the length of petiole, common 

 peduncle as long as petiole or longer. 



Burma (common on deserted toungyas on the hills between Sitang and Sal- 

 ween). Hills of eastern Bengal, Nepal. Baraitch forests of Oudh. Kamaon, 

 ascending to 4000 ft. A small tree in Oudh, 25 ft. high, stem 18 in. girth. Fl. 

 May, June. Bark soft, grey. Wood whitish, hard, close-grained, polishes beau- 

 tifully. 



C. longifolia, Lam. Syn. C. lanceolaria, Koxb. 1. c. 395 ; East Bengal, Burma, 

 Indian Archipelago, Queensland ; pubescent, often glabrate, has serrate, lanceo- 

 late, membranous leaves, flowers in loose cymes with slender branches. Will 

 probably be found in the Gorakhpur forests. 



6. LANTANA, Linn. 



1. L. alba, Miller. Syn. L. indica, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 89 j Wight Ic. 

 t. 1464. L. colling, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 141. L. dubia, Koyle 

 111. t. 73. 



A shrub ; branches 4-sided, hoary or pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate, crenate, pubescent or hirsute, blade 1-3 in., petiole J in. long. 

 Flowers white light purple or yellow, scentless, in pedunculate axillary 

 bracteate heads or short spikes, peduncles as long as leaf, bracts ovate, 

 hirsute or villous. Calyx minute. Corolla-tube curved, \ in. long, limb 

 oblique, spreading horizontally, divided into 4 unequal lobes. Drupe 

 smooth, globose, dark violet, as large as a pea, enclosed by the enlarged 

 but thin transparent calyx ; nut 2-celled. 



Plains of North India. Sub-Himalayan tract, ascending to 3000 ft. Sindh, 

 Dekkan, Nilgiris, Ceylon. Fl. April-June. 



7. VITEX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, digitate, usually of 3 or 5 leaflets. 

 Calyx 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla-tube short, limb spreading, 5-lobed, 

 lowest lobe larger than the others. Stamens 4, in pairs, ascending and 

 exserted. Ovary 2- or 4-celled, 1 ovule in each cell ; style filiform, shortly 

 and acutely 2-lobed. Fruit a succulent drupe, putamen separating into 

 4 hard 1 -seeded pyrenes. 



1. V. Negundo, Linn, j Wight Ic. t. 519 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 70. 

 Syn. V. bicolor, Willd. V. incisa, Lam. Vern. Marwan, moraun, 

 maura, mora, wana, banna, bana, torbana, biuna, Pb. ; Shivari, shiwari, 

 sliawali, mewri, N.W.P. ; Nirgunda, Bombay. 



A small tree or large shrub ; branchlets, under side of leaves or inflor- 

 escence hoary with short grey pubescence. Leaflets 3 or 5, lanceolate, 

 shortly petiolate, entire toothed or pinnatifid, the central one 3-4 in. 

 long, the lateral ones usually smaller; common petiole 1 in. long. 



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