. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Lantana] LXXXIL VERBENACEJS 503 pyrenes, slioiild be mentioned: 1. L. nodiflora, Eicli. (WaJcem, Sind), common in moist places tlirougliont India, a spreading annual often rooting from the nodes, 1. spatlm- late, sharply serrate. 2. L. geminata, Hiimb. Bonpl. Knntli. Indigenous in tiopical America, common in Lower Bengal and elsewhere. Very similar to Lantana indica. 2. VITEX, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 583. Trees or shrubs, L opposite, digitate
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Lantana] LXXXIL VERBENACEJS 503 pyrenes, slioiild be mentioned: 1. L. nodiflora, Eicli. (WaJcem, Sind), common in moist places tlirougliont India, a spreading annual often rooting from the nodes, 1. spatlm- late, sharply serrate. 2. L. geminata, Hiimb. Bonpl. Knntli. Indigenous in tiopical America, common in Lower Bengal and elsewhere. Very similar to Lantana indica. 2. VITEX, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 583. Trees or shrubs, L opposite, digitately 3-5-foliokte. Hairs thin plnri- cellular, not stellate, in some species round thin-walled trichomes (glands) on the underside of 1. Calyx campanulate, truncate or shortly 5-toothed, corolla small, tubular, limb 2-lipped, usually hairy outside and the lower lip bearded. Stamens 4, didynamous, anther-cells at first parallel, afterwards divaricate. Ovary 2~-4-celled, ovules 4, style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe supported by. Fig, 175.—Yitex altissima, Linn. f. J. the more or less enlarged calyx, endocarp bony, l~4-celled. Species 60, tropical and subtropical, in both hemispheres. A. Inflorescence usually a terminal thyrsus. 1. V. Negundo, Linn.; Wight Ic. t. 519. Vern. l/anoan, Wana^Vh,] Shitvali, Ningorij Ntsinda, Hind.; 'Nirguda^ Lingicr, Mar.; Yaaill^ Tel.; Lakki, NuJcM, Kan.; Isfochij Tarn. A large shrub or small tree, strongly scented, branchlets, underside of 1. and inflorescence clothed witli short grey or white pubescence. Leaflets 3 or 5, lanceolate, entire, toothed or pinnatifid, the central 3-4 in. long, on pet. ^-1 in., the lateral smaller, on potiolules up to |- in. long. Fl. small, bluish-purple, in opposite cymes, forming an elongated "terminal thyrsus, often compound at the base, calyx-teeth triangular or oblong, half or one-tbird the length of ti^be, corolla |~| in. long, very hairy in the throat, distinctly Please note that these images are
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