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ed. VIII (1768)- V. integerrima MILL. I.e.— V. triphylla ROYLE, III. Bot. 

 Him., 299 (1839).— V. variifolia SALISB., Prod. 107 (1790).— V. repens 

 BLCO., Fl. Fil. ed. I, 513 (1837) (= var. ß ?).— V. rotundi folia L. f. Suppl., 294. 



Var. a. trifoliolata SCHAUER, DC. Prodr. XI, 683; Verb. 182.- 

 Var. trifoliata CHAM., Linnaea VII, 107.— A shrub, sometimes tree-like, up 

 to 1100 M. in alt.; terminal leaflet sometimes somewhat petioluled. 

 In Herb. Bog. also from : 



Timor: FORBES n. 3726.— Banka: BÜNNEMEYER.— Sumatra: 

 BüNNEMEYER n. 2975, 5649; 4439; LöRZINQ n. 5776; etc. Borneo: 

 LABOHM n. 1962. 



This plant supplies the inhabitants with many remedies; rubbing with the leaves 

 is considered to be a remedy against fever and lumbargo; a decoction of the young 

 fruits with salt against tooth-ache; the fruits against an illness of native neat and horses ; 

 a decoction of all parts against fever. In order to accelerate the ripening of the rice, 

 the natives plant this shrub near it; in arrogating the rice-fields they add the leaves 

 to the water, in order to drive away the rice-caterpillar (mal.: „buwat kaluwar 

 ular padi"). 



Native names, except Legundi or Ligundi : Salagundi (Sum.), Batang 

 Lagundi (Lamp.), Gérjdarasi (Lamp.). 



Transition — FORMS to var. ß are the following specimens, most of 

 them near the sea-shore, the common habitat of the var R, whilst the 

 var a also occurs frequently in the inland. 



Java: BACKER n. 15230, Tegal, dry plain behind the beach (leaflets 

 smaller, with more rounded apex, more freguently 1- foliolate) ; ID. n. 4550, 

 Tjilatjap, on the beach (just intermediate between var. a and p);BEUMÉE 

 n. A. 92, Parang Tritis, south of Djocjacarta, at the foot of the sand-hills. 

 — These forms, however, occur also in the mountain-regions: KOBUS n. 

 164, Tosari, Mt. Tengger; ZOLLINGER n. 2559 Mt Tengger; MOUSSET n. 

 1118, Wonosari 1100 M. in alt.— Madura: BACKER n. 21149 and 19895, 

 near the sea-shore. 



Var. (3 unifoliolata SCHAUER 1. c. Verb. 182.— Kar. simplicifolia 

 CHAM. 1. c— Vitex ovata THB. Fl. Jap, 257; HOOK, et ARN., Bot. Beech. 

 Voy., t. 47. 



In Herb. Bog also from : 



Java: BACKER n. 2880, Patjitan. — Madura: BACKER ns. 19976, 

 21226, 19583.— Mangoli: HULSTIJN n. 213.— All of them plants cree- 

 ping on the sea-shore. 



Distribution of the species : Mauritius ! Réunion ! Brit. India ! 

 Ceylon! Malacca! Siam ! Hainan! S.-China! Korea! Andamans! Malay 

 Archipelago! Philippines! Formosa! Liuchiu-isl ! Japan ! Polynesia! 



10. Vitex pubescens VAHL, Symb. bot. III, 85 (1794); Verb. 183.- 

 V. arborea ROXB. Fl. Ind. III, 73 (1832); Jack, Descr. Mal. Pl., Cale. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. IV, n. XIII, 40. — V. articulata Steud. Nom., ed. II. II, 777 

 (1841).— V. bracteata MlQ. 1. c. II, 826 (1856). — V. digiîata WIGHT ex 

 STEUD. I.e.— F. heterophylla Bl. (not of ROXB.) ey MlQ I.e. II. 862.— 

 V. inaequiolia TURCZ., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. XXXVI, II, 223 (1863).— 

 V. latifolia BLCO., Fl. Fil. ed. I, 514 (1837). — V. latifolia LAM. Encycl. II, 



