320 CI. VERBENACEH (BAKER). | Vitex. 
campanulate, coriaceous, glabrous, subentire, 4-4 in. diam. Corolla 
not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Dantilia, on a laterite plateau, 3000-4000 ft. 
Scott-Elliot, 5389! 
1l. V. syringzefolia, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 115. A 
shrub; branches glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, simple, oblong, 
acute, entire, rounded at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, green 
and glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes sessile, axillary, many-fiowered. 
Fruit-calyx } in. long, green, glabrous; teeth small, ovate. Corolla- 
tube short, cylindrical ; lobes oblong, as long as the tube. 
Upper Guinea. Interior of Western Lagos, Rowland ! 
12. V. simplicifolia, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 133, 
t. 130, not of C.B. Clarke. A small tree; branchlets woody, glabrous. 
Leaves simple, ternate, oblong, obtuse or minutely cuspidate, rounded 
at the base, 6 in. long, 4 in. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous and rather 
glossy above, pubescent all over beneath; petiole glabrous, 2 in. long. 
Cymes few-flowered, axillary, peduncled. Flowers not seen. Fruit- 
ealyx 4 in. diam., obscurely toothed. Drupe oblong, the size of 
a sloe. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Madi, Speke & Grant, 701/5! 
An allied plant gathered by Welwitsch in Angola in the province of Golungo Alito, 
has occasionally two small accessory leaflets on the lower leaves of the branch. It is 
a shrub 6-8 ft. high. 
13. V. petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 264. 
Branchlets clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 
ovate, acute, inciso-crenate, bright green above, paler beneath : central 
one 1 in. long. Cymes axillary at the apex of the branchlets, shortly 
peduncled, pubescent, with a flower on a short pedicel at the fork ; 
bracts small, linear, villous. Calyx cyathiform, pubescent, 5-dentate. 
Corolla pubescent, twice as long as the calyx. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, at Tete, Peters. 
14. V. tettensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 264. 
Branchlets clothed with pale brown pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate, 
crowded at the apex of the branchlets; leaflets ovate, petioled, shortly 
cuspidate, more or less serrate, 3-1 in. long, glabrous above, pubescent 
on the ribs beneath. Cymes peduncled, few-flowered, axillary from 
the end of the branchlets. Calyx cyathiform, 4—5-toothed, sparsely 
pubescent. Corolla cylindrical, sparsely pubescent outside. Drupe 
globose, the size of a pea. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, at Tete, Peters. 
15. V. dentata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb, Bot. 265. 
Branchlets villous with white hairs. Leaves remote, 3-foliolate ; leaflets 
