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puberulous or above glabrescent or quite glabrous ; flowers small, 
pale bluish or white, almost sessile or shortly pedicelled, in little 
cymes, forming a longer or shorter white or greyish mealy panicle 
in the axils of the uppermost leaves and at the end of the branchlets ; 
calyx white-mealy, somewhat truncate, broadly 5-toothed, the 2 
upper teeth approximated; corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
puberulous outside ; drupes the size of a small pepper-kernel, bluish 
black, supported by the calyx. 
Var. 1, Agnus castus; leaves usually 5-7-foliolate, the leaflets 
sessile or nearly so, more or less linear to linear-lanceolate, entire, 
acuminate ; flowers nearly 4 in. long 
Var. 2, trifolia (V. trifolia, L.): leaves usually 3- or 1-foliolate 
on the same or separate individuals ; leaflets broader and more or 
less obovate or oval, sessile or nearly so, acute or bluntish. 
aB.—Only var. 2: not unfrequent in the savannahs and savannah forests 
of the larger rivers, as Irrawaddi and Sittang.— Fl. Fr. C.S.—1.—SS.— AIL 
2. V. canescens, Kz.—A tree (25—35-+4 10—12+1—8), shed- 
ding leaves in H.S., all softer parts shortly and softly greyish or 
yellowish pubescent; leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, on a shortly 
tomentose petiole 1-2 in. long; leaflets usually shortly petioluled 
(the median ones usually on much longer petiolules), from ovate an 
ovate-lanceolate to elliptical and elliptically lanceolate, acuminate or 
acute, tapering at the base, 2-3 in. long, entire or rarely crenate- 
serrate, membranous, while young on both sides densely and softly 
short-pubescent, above turning roughish puberulous ; flowers small, 
white, on slender 1-2 lin. long shortly tomentose pedicels, clustered 
and forming greyish or somewhat tawny short-tomentose compou 
or simple lax panicles above the scars of the fallen leaves and at the 
end of the branchlets; calyx greyish tomentose, about a line long, 
5-toothed ; corolla twice as long, tomentose outside ; drupes obovoid, 
Has.—Frequent in th d fi district.—F. Fr. 
March. Ape) - Bae DE ra dry forests of the Prome distri ‘i 
hylla, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (30—50 ae 
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foliolate, on a puberulous glabrescent petiole 1-24 in. long ; leaflets 
ts the size of a pea, supported by the more or less explanate 
yx. 
