evil. VERBENACEjE. 
631 
V Hex.] 
Leaves 3-foliate, uppermost uni-foliate, light green, white beneath; 
leaflets elliptic or obovate, terminal one largest, 1 to 3 in. long, 
•5 to 1-25 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long. Panicles terminal, white 
tomentose except corolla, 3 to 5 in. long, many-flowered. Calyx 
campanulate, ribbed, white-tomentose, teeth very small. Corolla 
•25 in. long, lavender blue, lower lip larger than upper. Drupe dry, 
black globose, *2 in. through. Hab. Gardens and villages, Singa¬ 
pore, Pasir Panjang; Pulau Ubin (Kunstler). Pahang, Kwala 
Pahang. Malacca, Pulau Besar. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; Salak 
Road (Seimund). Perak (Scortechini). Lankawi. 
var. repens. Woody creeper in sandhills; stem 1 in. through; 
branches erect, 2 to 3 in. tall. Leaves simple orbicular-ovate, 
white beneath. Cymes as in type form, but flowers larger and 
brighter blue. Sea sand common on east coast, Pahang, Pekan; 
Kuan tan (Watson). Kelantan, near river mouth (Ridley). Dis- 
trib. Of type form Indo-Malaya, Australia, Japan; sea-shore wild 
form, same area apparently. The two forms look so utterly unlike 
that they might be easily taken for two species, but the sea-shore 
form taken inland soon becomes the tree form. Native names : 
Lagundi; Langgundi or Langgudi. Use; Medicinal, for con¬ 
sumption. 
(2) V. Negundo Linn. Sp. PL 638; Gamble, l.c. 843. 
Bush about 4 ft. tall; branchlets 4-angled, tomentose. Leaves 
3- to 5-foliate, terminal leaflet, largest 3 in. long, 75 in. wide, 
lanceolate acuminate, white-tomentose beneath; petioles x to 
1*5 in. long. Panicles 1 to 3, terminal, 6 to 12 in. long, with 
numerous short branchlets 1 in. long, white-tomentose. Flowers 
numerous. Calyx campanulate, -05 in. long, teeth acute. Corolla 
pale lavender, -25 in. long or less; lower lobe longest. Drupe 
ovoid, -2 in. across. Hab. Waste ground near cultivation, not very 
common, probably introduced, Singapore, Bukit Timah Road near 
Holland Road Station ; Jurong; Bukit Mandai. Tomoh (Machado). 
Penang, Penara Bukit; Tanjong Bunga (Curtis). Distrib. Indo- 
Malaya. 
Gamble gives this as sometimes a small tree. 
(3) V. holophylla Baker, Kew Bulletin, 1892, p. 25; Gamble, 
l.c. 844. 
Small tree pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, simple ovate-lan¬ 
ceolate or oblong shortly acuminate, base round; nerves sunk 
above, prominent and pubescent beneath; 4 to 12 in. long, 1*5 to 
4- 5 in. wide; petioles 75 to 1-5 in. long, pubescent. Flowers 
sessile in distant whorls in simple spikes, 6 to 7 in. long tomentose. 
Bracts lanceolate or elliptic, *2 in. long, caducous. Calyx cam- 
panulate pubescent, 1 in. long, lobes deltoid. Corolla funnel- 
shaped pubescent outside, villous inside, 2-lipped, -2 in. long. 
Drupe globose or ovoid, 7 in. through. Calyx much accrescent 
