36 ADDISONIA 
tree, monk’s peppet-tree, chaste-lamb tree, sage tree, and tree of 
chastity. The specific name, Agnus-castus, is supposed to mean 
chaste lamb. 
About one hundred species of Vitex are known, distributed mainly 
in the tropical and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. Some 
of them are trees, contributing valuable timber; one of these is 
Vitex Lignum-vitae, the lignum-vitae of Queensland; another is 
Vitex litoralis, known as New Zealand teak or puriri, the timber 
obtained from which is considered indestructible in water. In the 
New World veuche is Vitex capiaia, of Trinidad, Guiana and Brazil, 
known there as “bois lézard’’; another American species is Vitex 
umbrosa, of the West Indies, one of the trees known there as box- 
wood or fiddlewood. 
GrorGcE V. Nasu. 
EXPLANATION OF Pate. Fig. 1.—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Fruit, x 3. 
