VERBENACEAE. — VITEX 373 



0.6-2.5 m., flowers lavender); Patung Hsien, thickets, side of streams, 

 alt. 600-900 m., July and December 1907 (No. 790; bush 1-2.5 m. 

 tall, flowers lavender); Changlo Hsien, roadsides, etc., alt. 600 m., 

 June 1907 (No. 2701; bush 2-2.5 m.; flowers lavender); without pre- 

 cise locality, A. //e?ir?/ (No. 92). Southern Szech'uan: between 

 Tehpu and Lomapu, alt. 1500-2000 m., May 9, 1914, C. Schneider 

 (No. 1139; bush 1 m.; fruits). Yunnan: Yuan-chiang, alt. 750 m., 

 A. Henry (No. 13210; shrub 2 m. tall, purple flowers); Yunnan Fu, 

 A. Henry (No. 9750); Yangtsze Valley, between Likiang and Chung- 

 tien, moist places, alt. 1500 m., August 6, 1914, C. Schneider (No. 

 2196; bush 1-1.25 m.; flowers blue). Formosa: South Cape, A. 

 Henry (No. 905); Bankinsing, A. Henry (without No.). 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 0202 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Vitex cannabifolia Siebold & Zuccarini is often referred as a synonym to this 

 species, but, though undoubtedly very closely related to V. Negundo, it is easily 

 distinguished by the greenish and glabrescent under surface of the leaves with 

 the midrib and veins covered with short more or less spreading hairs. To V. 

 cannabifolia I refer the specimens from Chekiang, Fokien, Hongkong and Kwang- 

 tung which I have seen. 



Here may be added a note on a variety not collected during the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum Expeditions. 



Vitex Negundo, var. incisa Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 584 (1885). 



Vitex chinensis Miller, Diet. No. 5 (1768). 1 



Vitex incisa Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. II. 612 (1788). — Poiret, Tab. Encycl. 

 Meth. III. 92, t. 541, fig. 2 (1823). — Schauer in De CandoUe, Prodr. XI. 684 

 (1847). — Bunge in Mem. Sav. Str. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, II. 126 

 (Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 52) (1833). — Debeaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 XXXI. 346 (Fl. Tche-fou, 113) (1876); XXXIII. 59 (Fl. Tien-tsin) 

 (1879). — Franchet, Me7n. Soc. Nat. Cherbourg, XXIV. 241 (Cat. PI. 

 Tche-fou) (1882); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Pans, s6r. 2, VI. 112 (PI. David. I. 

 232) (1883). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XXXI. 82 

 (1886); in Mel. Biol. XII. 516 (1886). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 XXVI. 257 (1890). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 549 (1900). — Gilg & 

 Loesener in Bot. Jahrb. XXXIV. Beibl. LXXV. 62 (1904). — Pavolini in 

 Nuov.Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 432 (1908). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 594, fig. 384 m-n, fig. 385 r-t (1911). 



Vitex Negundo Curtis in Bot. Mag. XI. t. 364 (non Linnaeus) (1797). 



Vitex laciniatus Hort. ex Schauer in De Candolle, Prodr. XI. 684 (pro synon.) 

 (1847). 



Agnus castus incisa Carridre in Rev. Hort. 1871, 415. 



Western Szech'uan: Tung River valley, July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 4308"; bush 2 m.); same locality, alt. 1400 m., July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4308; 

 bush 1-2 m.). Northern Shensi: without precise locahty, 1897, G. Giraldi. 

 Chili : near Peking, August 1865, S. W. Williams (Herb. Hance, No. 11435) : same 



» Figured in Miller, Fig. PI. II. 183, t. 275 (1760). 



