Vitex. | CI. VERBENACEX (BAKER). 321 
ovate, petioled, shortly cuspidate, furnished with a few large teeth, 
2-2} in. long, half as broad, bright green and glabrous above, pale 
beneath with a hairy midrib. Cymes axillary, peduncled; branchlets 
pubescent; bracts linear, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, sparsely 
pubescent, with 5 very acute teeth. Corolla hairy, three times the 
length of the calyx. Drupe small, obovoid. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, at Tete, Peters ! 
16. VW. Kirkii, Baker. A shrub or small tree; branchlets finely 
pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous 
above, pubescent beneath; leaflets shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse, 
entire, end one 1-14 in. long; main petiole under 1 in. long. Cymes 
very lax-flowered, axillary, often 2-3-nate from the apex of the 
branchlets ; pedicels pubescent; bracts linear, minute. Calyx campanu- 
late, pubescent, 54, in. long; teeth minute, deltoid. Corolla pink, 4 in. 
long; lower lip much longer than the upper. Drupe globose, the size 
of a large pea. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Tete, Kirk ! 
British Central Africa: Northern Zambesia ; Boruma, Menyharth, 872! 
17. V. polyantha, Baker. A shrub or small tree; branchlets 
short, clothed with short drab pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate, moderately 
firm, dark green and glabrous above when mature, paler and pubescent 
all over beneath; leaflets oblong, acute, entire, sessile, 1-14 in. long ; 
main petiole slender, 1-2 in. long. Cymes very numerous, axillary, 
shortly peduncled, congested; pedicels densely hairy, very short. 
Calyx campanulate, densely pubescent, ;), in. long, minutely toothed. 
Corolla small, very pubescent. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
18. V. flavescens, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 87. A shrub ; 
branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets 
oblong, obtuse, sessile, entire, 2-3 in. long, densely pubescent, especially 
beneath. Cymes axillary, long-peduncled, few-flowered ; branches 
pubescent ; bracts minute. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, } in. long ; 
teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; lobes 
small, orbicular. Stamens much longer than the lobes,—/”, Mechowit, 
Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 167 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 69. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 5731! Malange, in pastures, Mechow, 247, 
Marques, 8 | 
19. V. tangensis, Giirke in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 339. A shrub 
15-20 ft. high; branchlets clothed with yellowish hairs. Leaves dis- 
tinetly petioled, 3-foliolate ; leaflets distinctly stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 
~3 in. long, acute or acuminate, entire, glabrous above, pubescent and 
dotted beneath. Cymes dense, axillary, pedunclec ; pedicels pubescent ; 
bracts lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, clothed with yellowish pubes- 
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