VlTEX. 165 



4, 841; Miquel, Fl, ind. bat. II, 858; Hassk., 2e Cat. 

 's Lands PI. tuin, 134. — Shrubs and trees; leaves digitatety 

 composed, with 3 — 7 leaflets, rarely reduced to 2 or 1 ; 

 cymes axillary, sessile or peduncled, short and crowded 

 or larger and lax, sometimes subspicate often composed 

 to a large, terminal panicle; bracts small; flowers white, 

 blue, pink or yellowish ; calyx cupuliform, rarely subcylin- 

 drical, 5-lobed or toothed, sometimes truncate; coro//a-tube 

 cylindrical, short, sometimes somewhat curved, widened 

 towards the throat, often pubescent without, except the 

 lower part; limb spreading, oblique, subbilabiate; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, lower one 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger, 

 entire or undulate, with the throat often villous within; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, usually exsert; anthers with pa- 

 rallel or divergent fissures; style with shortly bifid apex; 

 ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled; ovules high-laterally attached; 

 fruit not included, drupaceous, with one 4-celled and 

 4-seeded pyrene. 



Distribution: in the tropics of both the Old and the 

 New World, some species in the subtropics of Europe 

 and Asia. 



1. a. Calyx regularly 5-to6thed, sometimes subtruncate or 



truncate (Section I Agnus-Castus (Endl.) Briq. 



(= Euagnus Schau.)) 2. 



b. Calyx 2-lipped, 1 lip entire or with 2 small teeth, the 

 other 2-toothed (Section II, Glossocalyx Clarke). 



34. V. gamosepala p. 209. 



2. a. Cymes in large terminal panicles (sect. I, subsection 1 



Terminales Briq.) 3, 



b. Cymes axillary, also in the axils of the lower leaves, 

 sometimes composed to a long, interrupted, leafed, 

 terminal panicle (sect. I, subsection 2 Axillares Briq.) 37. 



3. a. Petioles winged . . 4. 



b. Petioles not winged 5. 



4. a.) ^ 1. V. pteropoda p. 170. 

 b.\ (*2. V. peralata p. 171. 



