684 CXI. VERBENACEiB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Vifex. 



Y. panictdata, Lamk. Did. ii. 612 ; Hoxb. I. c. 71. — Rnmph. Serb. Amh. iv. 

 1. 19. Bheede Mart. Mai. ii. t. 12. 



Throughout India and Ceylon, in the warmer zone a universal plant. Nicobaes ; 

 Kurz. — DiSTBiB. Cabul, E. Asia to the Philippines. 



A shrub or small tree, hardly distinguishable from V. trifoUa but by the points 

 mentioned in the diagnosis. The leaflets are frequently 5, the centre one at least 

 usually distinctly petioluled, the flowers rather smaller. 



Vab. incisa; leaflets crenate-serrate or subpinnatiBd. V. incisa, Lamh. Diet. Mi. 

 611, and III. t. 541, fig. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 364; Moocb. I. u. 72; Wall. Gat. 1746, 

 partly; Schauer I. t. 684.— Throughout India. Distrib. E. Asia. — The extreme 

 pinnatifid form of this var. is Chinese ; the wild Indian examples are crenate-serrate, 

 i.e. intermediate. 



3. v. altissima, Linn.f. Suppl. 294; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets sub- 

 sessile lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubescent beneath, 

 panicles compound falvous-villous, corolla scarcely \ in., drupe 5 in. diam. 

 Hoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 71 ; Wall. Gat. 1755 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 685 ; Daiz. 

 Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 201 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1466 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 252 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 370. 



DiooAN Peninsttia, especially the west side, up to 4O0O ft., common ; Meyne, 

 Wight, &c. 



A very large tree ; shoots tawny-villous or woolly. Leaves 3-foliolate, occasionally 

 5-foliolate (Beddome) ; leaflets 5J by Ij in., mature glabrous above except the miilrib, 

 beneath closely distinctly reticulate and with scattered round yellow glands ; petiole 

 2i in., sometimes somewhat winged upwards. Panicles 3-8 in. diam. ; branches 

 elongate, interrupted, cymes clustered ; bracts -{j-^ in., elliptic. Calyx \ in., fulvons- 

 villous, teeth short, triangular. Corolla woolly. Ovary and young fruit fulvous- 

 villous at the apex. 



Vak. zeylaniea ; taatxire leaves glabrate beneath. V. zey\stnica, Turcz. in Bull, 

 Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 223. V. altissima (forma subglabraj, Thwaiies lEnam. 

 244.— Ceylon; Walker, Thwaites. — Leaves beneath reticulate, the depressions 

 microscopically tomentose, as in V. altissima after all the hair is rubbed oflF. 



4. y. alata, Seyne ; Both Nov. 8p. 316 ; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets 

 snbaessile broadly lanceolate subentire mature glabrate above thinly pubes- 

 cent beneath, wing of the petiole broad cordate at base, panicles terminal 

 compound fulvous-villous, corolla scarcely \ in., drape 5 in. diam. Dah. Sf 

 Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 201, not of Schauer, nor of Kurz. Y. appendioulata. Bottler 

 in Herb. Wall. — Bheede Sort. Mai. y. t. 1. 



Madkas ; Van Moyen ; Tuichecoonum, Bottler. Mtsoee ; ClegTiorn. 



Scarcely differs from Y. altissima but by the wing of the petiole, which is J-| in. 

 wide, continuous, dilated, cordate and subamplexicaul at the base; leaflets 2^ in. wide. 

 — Some branches, apparently of this, collected by Shuter, Law, and Stocks, have 

 some of the leaves 5-foliolate. 



5. V. llmonlfolia, Wall. Cat. 1754,; leaves 3-foIiolate, leaflets sessile 

 ovate entire mature pubescent beneath, petiole broadly winged, panicles long- 

 branched, cymes clustered distant, bracts prominent persistent. Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 271. V. alata, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 68-5, not of Seyne. 



Pegkct and Tbnasseeim ; Wallioh, &o. — Distrib. Ava, Siam. 



A tree; shoots fulvous-hairy or woolly. Leaflets 7 by 2| in., acute at both ends, 

 mature nearly glabrate above, minutely densely fulvous-pubescent beneath ; petiole 3-4 

 ^7 4-1 '}"■ Panicles 18 by 6 in., fulvous-hairy ; branches interruptedly spicate ; 

 bracts J-J in., lanceolate, often imbricate. Calyx i in., very shortly toothed, closely 

 fulvous-strigillose. Corolla \ in., fulvous-villous. Lrupe J in. diam.^ globose, smooth. 

 — The leaves are exceedingly like those of V. pubescens, except that the petiole is 

 wiuged ; the elongated interrupted panicle-branches are quite different. 



