324 Cl. VERBENACES (BAKER). | Vitex. 
dense, long-peduncled, axillary ; branchlets and short pedicels densely 
hairy ; bracts linear-subulate. Flower-calyx campanulate, very hairy, 
4 in. long; teeth obscure. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; lobes of 
the limb small, very hairy outside—Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 
xvi. 69. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5189 ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent! near Tondoa (Underhill), Bittner, 
428. Angola: San Salvador, Bittner, 427! Malange, in pastures, Marques, 10! 
28. V. micrantha, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 170. A small 
tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5-foliolate, moderately firm, green 
and glabrous on both surfaces; leaflets obovate-cuneate, entire, sub- 
sessile, conspicuously cuspidate, end one 2 in. long by less than half as 
broad; main petiole slender, glabrous, 13-2 in. long. Cymes few- 
flowered, long, axillary, distinctly peduncled; branchlets glabrous. 
Calyx campanulate, thinly pubescent, 1, in. long; teeth very small. 
Corolla small, white, silky outside. Fruit-calyx 4 in. diam.—Cummins 1n 
Kew Bulletin, 1898, 76. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 860! Ashanti: Assin- 
yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 74! 
29. V. grandifolia, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 169. A small 
tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5-foliolate, moderately firm, green 
and glabrous on both surfaces; leaflets obovate-cuneate, obtuse or 
cuspidate, entire, nearly sessile, end one 8-12 in. long and half as broad. 
Cymes dense, axillary, shortly peduncled; branchlets finely pubescent. 
Calyx campanulate, pubescent, obscurely toothed, 4 in. long. Corolla 
yellowish, silky outside, 3-4 times the length of the calyx. Fruit the 
size of a small plum, edible, with a calyx 3 in. diam. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 880! Gold Coast ; by the 
River Volta, Rumsey, 14! Lagos, Barter, 20180! Millen, 32! 64! Interior of 
Western Lagos, Rowland ! Niger Delta: sea shore near the River Nun, Barter, 
2098! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 839! 959! 1006! 
; Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauer, 215! Augoni, 70 
miles east of Gaboon, Bates, 550! 
Native name ‘Ore.’ Fruit, a sort of black plum, from which is made rum, said to 
be intoxicating (Millen), 
30. V. ferruginea, Schumach. & Thonn. . Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 
695. A tree 20-25 ft. high ; branchlets clothed with soft ferruginous 
pubescence. Leaves 5—7-foliolate, moderately firm, glabrous and bright 
green when mature, clothed all over beneath with soft ferruginous 
pubescence ; leaflets obovate-cuneate, entire, obtuse or cuspidate, nearly 
or quite sessile, end one 3-4 in. long by half as broad; main petiole 
4—5 in. long, densely pubescent. Cymes very compound, axillary, long- 
peduncled ; branches clothed with short soft brown pubescence. Flower 
calyx j'; In. long, densely pubescent; teeth small. Corolla small, 
pubescent outside. Fruit globose, 4-}in. diam.—I. rufescens, Giirke in 
Engl Jahrb. xviiii. 169. 
Upper Guinea, old Coast : Aquapim Mountains, Zhonning ! 
J OT Gan 
