212 VERBENACES (Pearson). [ Vitex. 
Section 2. AxILLAREs. Cymes axillary, simple or 
panicled. . 
Fruiting calyx cup-shaped, minutely toothed : 
Leaves opposite ; levflets usually serrate ... (2) harveyana,. 
Leaves in whorls of 3; leaflets entire ... ... (3) geminata. 
Fruiting calyx campanulate, 5-lobed or -toothed : 
Adult leaflets glabrous (or glabrescent) above : 
Petiole less than 1 in. long; leaflets obo- 
vate or elliptic-obovate, less than 1 in. 
broad vee wee “be ee we 
Petiole about 1 in. long; leaflets oblong- 
elliptic, less than lin. broad... as 
Petiole about 1} in. long; leaflets oblong- 
elliptic or obovate, more than 1 in. broad (6) reflexa. 
Adult leaflets tomentose or pubescent above : 
Cymes exceeding the petioles: 
Leaflets canescent or finely tomentose... (7) Zeyheri. 
Leaflets lanate-tomentose on the 
principal nerves beneath _... ... (8) Wilmsii. 
Cymes shorter than the petioles... .. (9) girkeana. 
(4) obovata. 
(5) Rehmanni. 
1. V. mooiensis (H. H. W. Pearson in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2705 
ined.) ; a low tree; branches subangular, glabrous, with prominent 
leaf-sears ; leaves opposite (rarely alternate), simple, petiolate, thin, 
membranous, ovate or elliptic, subacute or obtuse, cuneate at the 
base, entire or sometimes coarsely serrate towards the apex, entirely 
glabrous or finely scabrid-pubescent on the nerves, eglandular, with 
3-5 distinct primary lateral nerves on each side, 3-1 in. long, 
5-7 lin. broad; petiole slender, glabrous, somewhat thickened at the 
base, 2-3 lin. long; eymes 2-flowered, shortly pedunculate, loosely 
panicled ; panicle simple, racemose, terminal, pedunculate, slender, 
bracteate, with 3-4 nodes, 1-21 in. long ; peduncle and axis minutely 
pubescent along 2 opposite lines; bracts linear-subulate, about 
11 lin. long ; flowers shortly pedicelled, white; calyx of the flower 
5-lobed to the middle, glandular, minutely puberulous, promi- 
nently nerved, 2-21 lin. long; lobes oblong, subacute, }—} lin. 
broad ; corolla-tube short, cylindric, curved, obseurely puberulous 
without, finely villous within above the middle, about 2 lin. long; 
posterior lip erect, shortly 2-lobed ; anterior lip 3-lobed ; stamens 
inserted about the middle of the tube, shortly exserted ; anther- 
cells horizontal, spherical, divaricate, dehisving by longitudinal slits ; 
filaments glabrous; ovary globose, glandular towards the apex ; 
drupe pear-shaped, glabrous, exserted from the slightly accrescent 
calyx, 3 lin. long, 1}—2 lin. broad. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; near the Mooi River, Gerrard § McKen, 1238! 
2. V. harveyana (H. H. W. Pearson); a shrub, 6-8 ft. high ; 
branches with distant nodes, tetragonal, striate, adpressed-puberulous 
or -pubescent when young, especially at the nodes ; leaves opposite, 
petiolate, 3- (rarely 5-) foliolate; petiole slender, terete, adpressed- 
puberulous, }—1 in. long; leaflets subcoriaceous, obovate, shortly 
