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Central Africa : Nyasaland; Magomero, Meller, 5! Lake Nyasa, Kirk! Shire 
Highlands, Buchanan, 80! Karonga, Scott ! 
“ Fruit the size of a cherry ; black plum of Sierra Leone, ‘ Edi’ of Nupe ; edible.” 
(Barter). 
48. V. Poggei, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 168. A shrub, with 
glabrous branchlets. Leaves long-stalked, 5-foliolate ; leaflets shortly 
stalked, oblong ; end leaflet 6-7 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, acute or 
acuminate, coriaceous, quite glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes long- 
peduncled, axillary, lax, few-flowered; pedicels short; bracts linear. 
Calyx campanulate, pubescent, } in. long ; teeth deltoid, half as long as 
the tube. Drupe globose, pubescent at the apex. 
Tropical West Africa. Without locality, probably from Lunda or Angola, 
Pogge, 1255. 
49. V. mossambicensis, (iirke in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 340. A 
shrub or tree. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate ; leaflets shortly stalked, 
ovate, 13-2} in. long, acuminate, rounded at the base, entire, mem- 
branous, glabrous above, bearded in the axils of the veins beneath. 
Cymes with a long peduncle, lax, axillary, Calyx tubular-campanu- 
late, minutely toothed, pubescent upwards. Corolla-tube short; upper 
lip bearded. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Carvalho. 
50. V. Welwitschii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 166. A small 
tree, 12-20 ft. high; branchlets clothed with short pubescence. Leaves 
5-foliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous above when mature, 
finely pubescent beneath ; leaflets obovate-cuneate, entire, conspicuously 
cuspidate, shortly stalked, end one 3-4 in. long by half as broad ; main 
petiole 2-3 in. long. Cymes dense, axillary, many-flowered, shortly 
peduncled, Calyx campanulate, } in. long, densely pubescent. Corolla 
small, violet. Fruit unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in the province of Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5644 ! 
51. V. amboniensis, Giirke in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 340. A 
shrub; branchlets clothed with yellowish hairs. Leaves long-petioled, 
»-foliolate ; leaflets long-stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 2-33 in. long, very 
acuminate, narrowed to the base, entire, glabrous above, pubescent and 
gland-dotted beneath. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 in. long, mucronate, glabrous, 
Spotted with white. Ambon, Hotel, 2578' 
Mo . . an East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2578. 
Portuguese Hest "Aftiea between Lupata and Tete, Kirk, 2! British Central Africa : 
Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 762 ! 
52. V. andongensis, Baker. A tree; branchlets clothed with 
Short drab pubescence. Leaves 5-foliolate, subcoriaceous, green and 
glabrous above when mature, clothed all over with drab pubescence 
beneath ; leaflets oblong, acute, entire, all distinctly stalked, end one 
