832 BENGAL PLANTS. (Vitex. 
short; limb 5-lobed, central lobe of lower lip usually largest. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, usually exserted ; anther-cells at first 
their bases become suberect. Carpels connate in a 2-celled or 
4-celled ovary ; eis 4; style filiform; stigma shortly 2- fid. 
Fruit a globose or obovoid drupe, resting on the somewhat 
enlarged calyx; endocarp bony, 4-celled o : oe suppression, 3-1- 
celled. Seeds obovate or oblong; albumen 
Panicles terminal, with axillary peduncles sometimes also present in 
the upper leaf-axils :— 
Leaves beneath and panicles closely white-tomentose ; mea blue; 
berries black; leaves glabrate above; shrubs or small t 
Leaves 3- oe and simple; leaflets sessile, ist or Faia 
oblong, en 
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eaves Polo man 3-foliolate ; leaves petioluled, sich 
entire or rarely ¢ Negundo. 
tented beneath m Pion eae or arate tall tre 
Leaves 3-foliolate, with frequently 1-2 smaller teafiot added ; 
leaflets sessile, ovate or oblong, entire, bases of outer leaflets 
— minutely pubescent on both sides ; panicles densely cory™ 
bose, fulvous-tomentose; flowers blue..............-sseeceeeeer ubescens. 
Leaves os foliolate; leaflets petioluled, elliptic or ise entire, 
glabrate, a white glands above and yellow s beneath; 
anicles compound, long-branched, shinly shy pes flowers 
yellow oly “ae blue lower lip ophylla. 
Peduncles all axillary, sometimes short ; leaflets ee ees -— 
Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets entire, lanceolate, matu mete covered 
with minute yellow glands beneath ; aaa long- ek <— 
many-flowered, ashy puberulous; berries globose or cuboid, har@ly 
su cod in. across; flowers vate the tips ae ‘vith 
womens 
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Peto slender, wingless, or very egies winged .......+. pedr uncularts. 
iole wide-winged 
ii 5-foliolate, Sagas not winged; 1 eaflets oblong or ovate, usuall 
one rarely slightly serrate; corymbs rade icate ; berries obovoid, 
nt, large: if ihwéa 3-foliolate (V. glabrata sometimes), leaflets 
ei mature with adpressed hairs benea 
Corymbs glabrous, lax; flowers sessile, hit with violet hairs 
inside lower lip; leaflets always 5, with —? 
midrib beneath otherwi 
Corymbs puberulous, usually dense, generally 
