PITTIER—PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 485 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no, 537283, collected on the trail 
from Norosi to Tiquisio, Lands of Loba, Department of Bolivar, Colombia, 
April or May, 1916, by H. M. Curran (no. 181). 
Vitex berteroana Pittier, sp. nov. 
A tree (?); branchlets, petioles, and rachis of inflorescence more or less 
puberulous or glabrescent. 
Leaves 5-foliolate, the petioles broad, flattened and shallowly canaliculate, 
8 to 3.5 em. long, the petiolules glabrous, canaliculate, 2 to 7 mm, long; leaflet 
blades obovate or ovate, abruptly cuneate-attenuate at the base, obtuse, sub- 
emarginate or abruptly narrowed to a very short, obtuse or acute acumen at the 
apex, perfectly glabrous above, the costa impressed, the main veins prominulous, 
the lesser veins minutely prominulous-reticulate on both sides; blade of the 
middle leaflet 8 to 9 cm. long, 4.5 to 5 cm. broad, those of the lateral leaflets 
smaller. 
Cymes in subcylindric panicles, these about 12 em. long (the length of the 
leaves) and 3 cm. in diameter, the peduncles axillary and subterminal, 4 to 6 
em. long; lateral branchlets not more than 2.5 em. long; bractlets acicular, 
hairy, up to 2 mm. long, caducous; lateral pedicels slender, pubescent, 2 to 3 
mm, long, bearing at the apex 2 small caducous bractlets ; central pedicel stout, 
1 to 1.5 mm. long; calyx broadly cupulate, 5-toothed, sparsely and minutely 
pubescent, the teeth densely hairy at the tips, the 8 inferior ones longer and 
more approximate than the 2 superior ones, the sinuses rounded; corolla large 
and broad, 13.5 mm. long, purplish blue, the tube about 4 mm. long, over 2 mm, 
broad, glabrous at the base outside, minutely pilosulous above, within more or 
less hairy at the insertion of the stamens and on the side corresponding to the 
inferior median lobe; lobes obtuse, the inferior median one orbicular, 6.5 mm, 
long and 8.5 mm. broad, almost glabrous without, long-barbellate at the base 
within (the margin sinuate-lobulate), the lateral and superior lobes much 
smaller, entire, pubescent without, glabrous within; stamens didynamous, ex- 
serted, the longest ones about 6 mm. long, the filaments covered with long hairs, 
the anther cells ovate-fusiform, strongly divergent; ovary globose, finely pubes- 
cent, the style 7 mm. long, sparsely eovered with long hairs. 
Drupe not seen. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 704075, collected in the forests of 
Santa Marta, State of Bolivar, Colombia, by H. H. Smith (no. 2107). 
This species is characterized by its short-petiolate leaves, with leaflets abso- 
lutely glabrous and apparently quite developed at the blossoming time, and by 
the large flowers and the hairy style. Except that it belongs to the group with 
cylindrical panicles, it does not seem to be very closely related to any of the 
species known from northern South America. 
Vitex capulin Pittier, sp. nov. 
A tree, 6 to 10 meters high; young branchlets furfuraceous-pubescent. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, 5-foliolate, the petioles canaliculate, more or less pub- 
erulous, 3.5 to 5 cm. long; petiolules puberulous, deeply canaliculate, 1 to 4mm. 
long; leaflet blades ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, cuneate at the base, obtuse, 
acute, or subacuminate at the apex, glabrous on both faces, the costa and 
primary veins subimpressed and the reticulation indistinct on the upper face, 
the lower face pale, with the veins and venules prominulous, the reticulation 
close but minute and delicate; blade of the middle leaflet 8 to 10.5 cm. long, 
8.5 to 4.5 cm. wide, those of the lateral leaflets much smaller. 
Panicles axillary, aS long as the leaves or longer (up to 15 cm. long), ovate, 
the lower branch longer, the peduncles 3.5 to 7 cm. long, more or less puberul- 
ous; bractlets ovate, acute, 2 to 2.6 mm. long, puberulous without, caducous or 
