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CVII. VERBENACEJE. 
[Vitex. 
9. VITEX, Linn. 
Trees medium to big or more rarely shrubs. Leaves 3- to 
7-foliate, rarely i-foliate; leaflets unequal, mid one largest petiolu- 
late. Flowers blue, yellow or white in terminal panicles or corymbs 
or axillary corymbs. Calyx campanulate or tubular truncate, 
3- to 5-toothed or 2-lipped. Corolla small, 2-lipped, tube long or 
short, upper lip 2, lower 3-lobed, central lower lobe longest. 
Stamens 4, usually exsert. Ovary 2- to 4-celled; style filiform; 
stigma bifid. Fruit a drupe supported by the enlarged calyx. 
Pyrene bony, 4-seeded. Species about 120, tropics and warm 
regions. 
Inflorescence terminal ; flowers usually blue. 
Petioles not winged. 
Shrubs or small trees; leaves membranous, 
white-pubescent beneath. 
Treelet; leaves 3-foliate elliptic 
Sandhill creeping shrub; leaves simple . 
Bush or treelet; leaves trifoliate, lanceolate 
acuminate ..... 
Trees; leaves not grey or white beneath, 
1-foliate, coriaceous. 
Leaves round at base; cymes in glomerate 
whorls ...... 
Leaves shortly, cuneate at base; cymes laxer 
Trees; leaves trifoliate. 
Stiffly coriaceous; panicles stout; flowers 
clustered ...... 
Thin membranous; panicles slender; flowers 
solitary, distant . . . 
Leaves 5-foliate. 
Leaflets sub-sessile; panicle pubescent with 
large bracts ..... 
Leaflets petiolate; panicle laxer hardly 
pubescent; bracts small or o. 
Panicle lax spreading; cymes peduncled . 
Panicle little-branched; cymes in com¬ 
pact sessile whorls .... 
Leaves with broadly winged petioles. 
Leaflets long lanceolate, under 2-5 in. across . 
Leaflets elliptic to obovate, over 3 in. across . 
Inflorescen ce axillary . 
Leaves 3- to 5-foliate; cymes 4 to 5 in. long, 
peduncled lax; flowers white and blue. 
Leaves 3-foliate; cymes short sessile under 2 in. 
long; flowers bright yellow. 
Leaves and cymes pubescent. 
Calyx-lobes oblong lanceolate conspicuous, 
•27 in. long, equal . 
Calyx-lobes short acute, equal *1 in long 
Leaves glabrate; calyx 2-lipped 
(1) V. trifolia 
var. repens 
(2) V. Negundo 
{3) V. holophylla 
(4) V. Clarkeana 
(5) V. coriacea 
( 6 ) V. siamica 
(7) V. pubeseens 
( 8 ) V. heterophylla 
(9) V. urceolata 
(10) V. pteropoda 
(11) V. peralata 
(12) V. glabrata 
(13) V. longisepala 
(14) V. vestita 
(15) V. gamosepala 
(1) V. trifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 638; Gamble, l.c. 842. 
Aromatic shrub or small tree; branches white tomentose. 
