Vitex. | CI, VERBENACEE (BAKER), 319 
Cymes forming a dense terminal panicle, with white branchlets; 
bracts lanceolate, minute. Flower-calyx campanulate, canescent, 5}, in. 
long and broad ; teeth very minute. Corolla lavender-blue, 3-4 in. 
long. Drupe the size of a small pea.—Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 533 ; 
Wight, [c. t. 519; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 583. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Dar-es-salaam, Hildebrandt, 
1254! 
Also in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 
7. V. Buchanani, Baker in Buchanan, Nyasaland plants, 1891, 
15 (name only), and ex Giirke in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 339. Branches 
clothed with dense drab pubescence. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate ; 
leaflets oblong, usually acute, entire or obscurely dentate, cuneate at the 
base, pubescent on both sides, especially beneath ; central leaflet 2—3 in. 
long, distinctly petioled. Cymes forming an ample thyrsoid panicle, 
_with densely pubescent branches. Calyx campanulate, ;4, in. long; 
teeth small, deltoid. Corolla-tube cylindrical, less than twice as long as 
the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens not protruding beyond the 
corolla- lobes. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Monnt Malosa, 4000- 
6000 ft., Whyte! plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 318! 385! 782! 
8. V. thyrsiflora, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 152. A tree; 
branchlets glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate; leaflets dis- 
tinctly stalked, obovate-oblong, cuspidate, almost membranous, green 
and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and slightly pubescent beneath, 
end one 6-8 in. long and 3-34 in. broad at the middle. Cymes forming 
an ample thyrsoid terminal panicle; pedicels short, pubescent ; bracts 
small, linear. Calyx campanulate, } in. long; teeth small, deltoid. 
Corolla-tube twice the length of the calyx; lobes oblong. Stamens 
included. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Abeokuta, Harrison, 5! in the interior, without 
precise locality, Rowland ! 
9. V. Vogelii, Baker. A small tree 15 ft. high; branchlets clothed 
with short whitish pubescence. Leaves in whorls of 3, simple, oblong, 
entire, acute, subcuneate or rather rounded at the base, 4-9 in. long, 
half as broad, subcoriaceous, green, and finally glabrous above, matted 
all over beneath with persistent whitish pubescence; petiole 2 in. 
long. Cymes axillary, peduncled, few-flowered. Flowers not seen. 
Fruit-calyx 4 in. diam.; obscurely lobed. Drupe globose, the size of a 
cherry, 
Upper Guinea. Southern Bornu ; Musgu, Vogel, 97! 
10. V. gomphophylla, Baker. A tree; branchlets glabrous. 
Leaves long-petioled, simple, obovate-cuneate, 2-4 in. long, entire, 
minutely cuspidate, moderately firm, green and glabrous on both sur- 
faces. Cymes lax, few-flowered, lateral, shortly peduncled. Calyx 
