Vitex. | VERBENACER. 269 
VITEX, L. 
Calyx more or less cup-shaped, 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla 
almost 2-lobed-funnel-shaped, with a short tube, the limb unequally 
5-lobed, the lower oe usually much larger than the others and 
lip-like. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the tube, ascending 
and exserted. Ovary 2- or more or less perfectly 4-celled, with a 
solitary ovule in each cell or half cell laterally attached at or about 
the middle ; style filiform, shortly and acutely 2-lobed. Fruit a 
he drupe, the geome separating into 4 (or by abortion 
er) hard, one- ended pyrenes. Albumen none.—Trees or rarely 
nang with opposite, digitately . 7, rarely 1-foliolate leaves. 
Flowers usually small, in cymes, sometimes axillary, but usually 
collected into’ terminal panicles sah simple and spike-like or 
branched. Bracts ery small. 
* Flowers in pan 
O sig Trae Cert without or only with minute subu- 
late bracts. 
All = minutely white or greyish-mealy ; leaves ey at least 
beneath ; leaflets sessile; flower. Prec $8 orn . V. Agnus castus. 
As former, but the median leaflets petioluled ; Pac ef Fainting . VP. Negundo. 
All parts softly and shortly pubescent ; flowers on slender pedicels ; 
median leaflets petioluled . V. canescens. 
Adult parts and leaves (at least above) all glabrous ; leaflets peti- 
oluled V. heterophylla. 
cpa corolla tomentose ; , calyx puberulous leaflets coarsely 
nate . V. Wimberleyi. 
“OO Panicles terminal, with numerous conspicuous ; leafy 
bracts. All parts more or les ss pubescent; leaves 
digita ate ely 3-foliolate ; leaflets sessile. 
Petiole 2s or only slightly and narrowly winged at the apex; 
panicle cymose-branched ; flowers blue . V. pubescens. 
ee e broadly nd leafy wi inged ; panicle spike- slike, “interruptly 
. V. limonifolia. 
"O O @) Panielos axillary, ¢ elongate, lax; leaves 8- foliolate 5 ; 
tes sessile, glabrous, the porte ole winged o 
ey. alata. 
* oe “he axillary ‘dichotomous cymes. Petiole not 
winge 
ub escent ; in —— or tomentose, much 
shorter than the petiole . V. vestita, 
All parts quite glabrous, at least when oda ; cymes glabrous, re- 
peatedly dichotomous, = than the . V. leucorylon. 
1. V. Agnus castus, L. (/. iota, L,; Bedd. Sylv; Made. 
172), -—An evergreen shrub, small or large, or som etimes growing out 
ves very variable, digitately 3-7- rarely 1-foliolate on the same or 
different t plants, on a white-mealy petiole 4-1 in. long; leaflets 
from ovate and at to ovate-lanceolate and even linear, blunt, 
acute or acuminate, in. long, entire to coarsely crenate-serrat 
and almost pifitat Bd-out, on both sides greyish or whitish mealy- 
