848 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



7. ViTEX PUBESCENS, Vahl Symb. III. 85 (1794). A large tree, 

 reaching a height of 50 to 60 ft. or more ; bark ash-coloured, fissured ; 

 branchlets quadrangular, brown, lenticellate ; innovations tawny-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; digitately 3- to 5-foliolate, the middle 

 leaflet always largest, the two next large, the basal pair when present 

 much smaller ; leaflets entire, sessile or subsessile, obovate or elliptic 

 or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate 

 at base ; glabrescent on the upper surface except on the nerves, minutely 

 pubescent on the lower surface ; middle leaflet 6 to 8 in. long by about 

 3 in. broad, rest smaller in gradation ; midrib stout ; main nerves 12 to 

 20 pairs, regular, curving gently upwards and connected by prominent 

 nearly parallel transverse nervelets ; petiole 2 to 4 in. long, deeply 

 channelled above ; petiolules when present under "25 in. long. Panicles 

 terminal, densely tawny-pubescent, pyramidal, usually sessile, reaching 

 10 in. in length and 6 to 8 in. in breadth ; rachises sharply quadrangular ; 

 branch peduncles often 3 to 4 in. long ; bracts many, conspicuous, per- 

 sistent, ovate or spathulate, those of main nodes sometimes leaf-like ; 

 bracteoles similar to the bracts but smaller ; pedicels none or very 

 short ; flowers blue or lilac. Calyx campanulate, thickly tomentose, 

 ■15 to -25 in. long; lobes 5 acute. Corolla 2-lipped, gibbous; tube 

 broad, pubescent and glandular without except at the base, villous 

 within at the insertion of the stamens, glabrous below it, about -25 in. 

 long ; upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, the midlobe much the longest, 

 villous within and concave at tip, the others rounded, reflexed. 

 Stamens exsert ; filaments broad and villous at the base ; anther-cells 

 elongate, connected only at tip. Ovary glabrous ; style slender, longer 

 than stamens ; stigma shortly bifid. Drupe black, globose, "2 to -3 in. 

 long, depressed at top, faintly ribbed, 4-celled. Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 XI. 685 ; Blume Bijdr. 812 ; Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. III. 

 401 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. XXI. ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 271 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



II. 861 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 585 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 

 VII. 202 ; Prain Beng. Plants 833. V. arborea, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 46, 

 and Fl. Ind. III. 73 ; Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 18, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. 

 I. 285 ; WaU. Cat. 1747 ; Wight Ic. t. 1465. V. incequifolia, Turcz. in 

 BuU. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. II. 223. 



Penang : Wallich 1747 j^'^i'i ; J- Scott ; Curtis 64. Peeak : at 

 Thaipeng, Wray 139 ; King's Collector 267 ; Scortechini 77, 99, 916. 

 Malacca : Griffith ; Maioigay (K.D.) 1204 ; Derry. Singapoee : 

 Wallick 1747 part; Schomburgk 48; Cantley 17; Bidley. — Disteib. 

 India, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 



8. ViTEX HETEEOPHYLLA, Eoxb. Hort Beng. 46 (1814), and Fl. Ind. 



III. 75 (1832). A large tree, I'eaching 80 ft. in height and 3 ft. in diam. 



