374 VEEBENACEAE. 



late, equally 5-dentate. Corolla tubular-furmelform or salverform, the limb 

 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted. Ovary at length 4-celled; style simple; 

 stigma 2-cleft. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy, 3-4-lobed. [Greek, false carpid.] 

 Six known species, of Cuba and the Bahamas. Type species: Vitex ilicifolia 

 A. Eich. 



1. Pseudocarpidium Wrightii Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 182. 1906. 



A shrub or small tree up to 5 m. high, the young twigs and the inflores- 

 cence puberulent, the bark light gray or nearly white. Leaves elliptic to 

 obovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, rounded or sub- 

 cordate at the base, spinulose-dentate, glabrous, shining 'and reticulate-veined 

 above, puberulent at least on the veins beneath, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; 

 panicles peduncled, several-many-flowered, mostly exceeding the leaves; calyx 

 2-3 mm. long, its teeth ovate, acute; corolla violet, about 4 times as long as 

 the calyx; fruit depressed, about 8 mm. broad, its lobes rounded. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros and Mangrove Cay : Cuba. Recorded by 

 Mrs. Northrop as Vitex ilicifolia A. Rich., which it resembles. WRIGHT'S PSEDDO- 

 CARPIDIUM. 



13. VOLKAMERIA L. Sp. PI. 637. 1753. 



A vine-like, spiny shrub, with opposite petioled entire leaves, and white 

 flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla salverform, 

 with a slender tube, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted, somewhat unequal. 

 Style filiform. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a subglobose drupe, the 2 nutlets each 

 2-celled. [In honor of J. C. Volkamer, a Nuremberg botanist, who died in 

 1720.] Only the following species, native of tropical America. 



1. Volkameria aculeata L. Sp. PI. 637. 1753. 



Clerodendron aculecutum Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 500. 1861. 

 Ovieda aculeata Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 118. 1893. 



Climbing to a length of 3 m. or more, or nearly erect, the slender branches 

 densely puberulent, armed with stout oposite spreading spines 8 mm. long 

 or less. Leaves thin, slender-petioled, oblong to elliptic-obovate, obtuse or 

 acute at. the apex, narrowed to the base, 2-5 cm. long; cymes stalked, few- 

 several-flowered; pedicels slender, puberulent, 6-14 mm. long; calyx about 3 

 mm. long, puberulent, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute; tube of the corolla 

 about*18 mm. long, its limb about 12 mm. broad; stamens purple; drupe 4- 

 grooved, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, New Providence and Inagua : Bermuda ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and 

 Martinique ; Jamaica ; continental tropical America. PRICKLY MYRTLE. 



14. CLERODENDRUM [Burm.] L. Sp. PI. 637. 1753. 



Shrubs, vines or perennial herbs, with opposite entire leaves, and flowers 

 in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Corolla 

 salverform or funnelform, the tube mostly longer than the 5-lobed limb. 

 Stamens 4, borne on the corolla-tube, exserted, somewhat unequal. Stigma 2- 

 lobed; ovary 4-celled. Fruit a drupe, enclosing 4, 1-seeded nutlets. [Greek, 

 tree of fortune.] Probably 100 or more species, mostly natives of tropical 

 regions. Type species: Clerodendrum infortunatum L. 



