Verbenaceae. 185 
Vitex pubescens Vahl. 
Jitex pubescens is a large evergreen tree with quadrangular 
branches. The leaves consist of five leaflets which are sessile, and 
as the inflorescence, are densely clothed with a soft, tawny pubes- 
cence. The inflorescence is dense, pyramidal, three to five inches 
across. The bracts are persistent. The drupe is small, globose and 
bluish-black. 
This species, of which there is only one specimen in Honolulu, 
in Dr. Hillebrand's garden, is a native of India, Burmah and the 
Andaman Islands. The wood is smooth, gray, hard and close- 
grained. 
Another species of Vitex not definitely identified is a large tree 
with gray bark and very hard wood ; the leaves are three-foliate 
and densely pubescent, as are the young branches. The flowers are 
blue and axillary, the drupe globose and about half an inch in diam- 
eter. It may be identical- with V. vestita Wall. 
Tectona grandis Linn. 
The Teak Tree. 
Plate LXXIII. 
The Teak, when full-grown reaches a height of eighty to one 
hundred feet, has quadrangular branches which are stellately tomen- 
tose. The leaves are very large, especially the young ones or those 
of seedlings, measuring sometimes three feet. The flowering pani- 
cles are terminal, eighteen inches or more in diameter, bearing numer- 
ous flowers, only few of which are fertile; the corolla is only one- 
fourth inch long, and white. The fruit is a drupe two-thirds of an 
inch in diameter, four-celled, with a central cavity which is densely 
hairy ; the calyx, which is persistent and encloses the fruit, is ovoid 
to subpyramidal, membraneous and often reticulately nerved. 
The Teak is a large deciduous tree, indigenous to the peninsulas 
of India, the drier regions of Eastern Java, Sumatra, and is also 
found on a few islands of the Indian Archipelago. In Burmah it 
extends to the twenty-fifth degree of north latitude, but no exact 
information is available in regard to the area under Teak in India ; 
it is estimated, however, that the supply is practically unlimited. The 
most extensive Teak forests occur in upper Burmah and are com- 
mercially the most important of all forests in British possession. The 
Teak does not form natural pure forests except on alluvial soils, 
in which the growth of the Teak is rather rapid, thus giving it an 
