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Vitex negundo, Linn. Shrub or small tree with quadrangular branchlets: lfts. usually 5, or occasionally 3, stalked, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, serrate or entire, grayish tomentulose beneath, 1 1/2 - 4 in. long: fls. lilac or lavender, small, scarcely 1/4 in. long, stalked, in rather loose clusters forming slender spikes usually crowded into loose terminal panicles 5-8 in. long; stamens and style slightly exserted. China, India. Tender. Var. incisa, Clarke (V. incisa, Lam. V. laciniata, Hort.). Fig. 3952. Lfts. incisely serrate or almost pinnatifid, 3/4 - 3 in. long; the more extreme form with deeply pinnatifid lfts. and narrow remote segms. may be distinguished as f. multifida, Rehd. (Agnus-castus incisa var. multifida, Carr.). July-Aug. N. China, Mongolia. B.M. 364 (as V. Negundo). This variety is much hardier than the type; it is less showy in bloom than the preceding species, but a graceful shrub of loose and open habit, with handsome foliage.
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