Lantana] 



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pyrenes, should be mentioned: 1. L. nodiflora, Rich. (Wakem, Sind), common in moist 

 places throughout India, a spreading annual often rooting from the nodes, 1. spathu- 

 late. sharply serrate. •_!. L. geminata, Humb. Bonpl. Kuntli. Indigenous in tropical 

 America, common in Lower Bengal and elsewhere. Very similar to Lantana indica, 



2. VITEX, Limi. : PI. Brit. Lad. iv. 583. 



Trees or shrubs. 1. opposite, digitately 3-5-foliolate. Hairs thin peri- 

 cellular, not stellate, in some species round thin-walled trichomes ('glands) on 

 the underside of 1. Calyx campanulate, truncate or shortly 5-toothecl, corolla 

 small, tubular, limb 2-lipped, usually hairy outside aud the lower lip bearded. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, anther-cells at first parallel, afterwards divaricate. 

 Ovary 2— 1-celled, ovules 4, style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe supported by 



Fio. 175. — Vitex altissima, Linn. f. J. 



the more or less enlarged calyx, endocarp bony, I— 4-celled. Species 60, 



tropica] and subtropical, in both hemispheres. 

 A. Inflorescence usually 8 terminal thyrsus. 



1. V. Negundo, Linn.; Wight fc. t. 519. Vern. Miunan. W'ana, Pb.; 

 siiiirnli. Ningori, Nisinda, Hind.: Nirguda, Lingur, Mar.; Vavili, Tel.; 

 Lakki, .Y» /■•/.■/. Kan.; Nochi, Tam. 



A large shrub or small tree, Btrongly scented^ branchlets, underside of I. 



and inflnresceni lot bed with short grey or white pubescence. Leaflets 3 or 5, 



lanceolate, entire, toothed or pinnatind, the central .''>-l in. long, on pet.J-1 in., 

 the lateral smaller, on petiolules up to \ in. long. PI. small, bluish-purple, 

 in opposite cymes, forming an elongated terminal thyrsus, often compound at 

 the base, calyx-teeth triangular or oblong, half or one-third the length of tube, 

 corolla \ 1 in. long, very hairy in the throat, distinctly 2-lipped. 



