Vitex
in botany, the typical genus of Viticeæ, calyx short, campanulate, Europe. It has digitate leaves, with five to seven leaflets, fragrant flowers, and five-toothed; corolla irregular, five-lobed, somewhat labiate; stamens four, didynat its base by the calyx, and containing four one-seeded cells. V. agnus-castus is the chaste tree, a native of southern Europe. It has digitate leaves, with five to seven leaflets, fragrant flowers, and matic taste. V. trifolia, the wild pepper, and Burma. The roots yield a sweet, greenish oil. It is believed that an oil form of albumen and casein, and not a globular fruits with an acrid and arospecial product of organic chemistry. The vitellus consists of highly-concen- is a small tree or shrub, wild in India trated protoplasmic or albuminous matter, along with mineral substances, and it contains the nutritive matter from which the early tissues of the ter, along with mineral substances, and it contains the nutritive matter from which the early tissues of the the egg yolk resembles milk in its nature.