Flora Medica

ANISOMELES.with prominent veins beneath, wrinkled above, clothed with whitishdown on both sides, but less so than the stem. Flowers collected intoshort, pedunculated, axillary clusters, which spread round the stem,forming whorls, of which the uppermost are so close, as to constitutean uninterrupted spike. Bracteas filiform, pubescent, nearly the lengthof the calyx,1 or 2 to each flower. Calyx 5-cleft, ]0-angled, thicklycovered with long, white, somewhat viscid pubescence. Corolla2-lipped ; upper lip entire, shorter than the stamens, obtuse, white ;under one large. 3-cleft, lateral divisions obtuse, reflexed, the middleone orbicular, 2-lobed, with the sides bent downwards : throat hairy,spotted with purple and marked with a streak of the same colour downthe middle. Stamens ascending, hairy. Anthers deep purple, openingtransversely, the longer ones 1-celled, the shorter ones 2-celled ;thecells transverse. Stigma 2-cleft, with divaricated lobes. Wight.Patients suffering from ague are made to inhale the vapour arising froman infusion of this plant. Copious perspiration ensues, which is keptup for some time by drinking more of the infusion. Wight. The leaveswhich are bitter and astringent are taken in India to assist digestion,and to impart tone to the stomach.VERBENACE^E.Nat. syst.ed. 2. p. 277.VITEX.Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla bilabiate ; the upperlip bifid, the lower trifid, with the middle segment largest.Stamens somewhat protruding;anthers oval, erect. Style filiform; stigma bifid. Drupe globose, 4-celled, 4-seeded.1030. V. trifolia Linn, sp.pl. 890. Roxb. fl.ind. iii. 69.(Burm. zeyl. t. 109. Rheede ii. t. 10. Rumph. iv. t. 18.)Various parts of the East Indies.Young shoots round and villous. Leaves opposite, ternate. Leafletsall sessile, ovate, oblong, entire, hoary underneath the; pair from 1 to 2inches long, and the terminal one much longer ; petioles about an inchlong, and hoary. Panicles terminal, linear-oblong, composed of brachiateand dichotomous ramifications ; every part hoary. Flowerssmall, of a lively light blue colour. Bracts minute. Calyx campanulate,hoary ; mouth slightly 5-toothed. Corolla with the lower lobelonger and undivided; the lower lateral ones turned up against theupper which lip, appears 4-lobed. Stamens as long as the corolla.Ovary round, 2-celled ;style as long as the corolla; stigma of 2 filiformspreading lobes. Drupe round, smooth, when ripe black, size of asmall pea, the stone of the same shape as the drupe, 4-celled. Seedssolitary. Albumen, when the seeds are quite ripe, none. Embryo495