Flora of the Malayan Peninstda. 843 



ally when 1-foIiolate), obtuse or acute at apex, rounded or cuneate 

 (especially the terminal, if 3) at base ; upper surface glabrous, lower 

 densely white-tomentose ; margins entire ; end leaflet 1 to 3 in. long, 

 •5 to 1-25 in. broad, lateral leaflets smaller ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 

 inconspicuous ; petiole slender, -5 to 1 in. long. Panicles terminal, 

 oblong, white-tomentose, reaching 1 to 5 in. in length ; the rachis sub- 

 quadrangular ; cymes opposite, up to 1 in. long, brachiate ; bracts 

 linear, minute ; flowers lavender to blue. Calyx sessile, campanulate, 

 •075 to -1 in. long; tube ribbed from the teeth, white-tomentose; 

 teeth 5, regular, acute, very small. Corolla -25 to -35 in. long; tube 

 scaly-pubescent without, villous within at the insertion of the stamens ; 

 upper lip of 2 short rounded lobes, lower of 3 lobes, the lateral 

 lobes -06 in. long, the midlobe longest, -125 in. long, villous, hairy 

 within and usually incurved. Stamens exsert ; filaments hairy-villous 

 near the base ; anther-cells curved. Ovary rounded, depressed, glandu- 

 lar-dotted. Drupe ellipsoid, depressed at top, '2 in. in diam., 

 slightly ribbed, glandular-dotted, half-enclosed in the somewhat en- 

 larged calyx. Linn. f. Suppl. 293 ; Lamk. Diet. II. 613 ; Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. III. 69 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2187 ; Wall. Cat. 1743 ; Schauer in DC. 

 Prodr. XI. 683 ; Blume Bijdr. 812 ; Miq. El. Ind. Bat. II. 859 ; Benth. 

 in Fl. Austral. V. 66 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CLXXII ; Brandis For. Fl. 370 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 583 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 356 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 428 ; Prain Beng. Plants 833 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 

 VII. 200. V. ovata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 257 ; Lamk. I. c. ; Hook. & Arn. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. 206, t. 47. V. repens, Blanco Fl. Filip. 513. V. incisa, 

 Wall. Cat. 1746 {partly, not of Lamk.). V. Agnus castus var., Kurz 

 For. Fl. II. 269. " Lagondium vtdgare," Eumph. Herb. Amb. IV. 48, 

 1. 18. " Garanosi," Eheede Hort. Mai. II. t. 11. 



Peeak : Scortechini 644, 1459. Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1206 ; Hervey. Singapoee : at Pulau Obun, Kunstler 57. 

 — DisTRiB. India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, North Australia, 

 Japan. 



2. ViTEX Negundo, Linn. Sp. PL 638 (1753). A large shrub or 

 small tree ; bark thin, grey ; branchlets quadrangular, covered with an 

 appressed hairy tomentum. Leaves membranous ; 3- to 5-foliolate, the 

 terminal leaflet petiolulate (up to '75 in. long), the lateral leaflets 

 shortly petiolulate (usually about "25 in.), sometimes nearly or quite 

 sessile ; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; upper 

 surface nearly glabrous, lower densely white-tomentose ; margins entire 

 or sometimes coarsely crenate ; end leaflet 2 to 4 in. long, -5 to 1'25 in. 

 broad, lateral leaflets shorter ; main nerves about 15 pairs with a few 

 secondary nerves between ; petiole slender, 1 to 1'5 in. long, white-tomen- 



