214 VERBENACEZ (Pearson). [ Vitex. 
minutely so within ; stamens inserted below the middle of the tube, 
exserted ; filaments broadened and villous towards the base; ovary 
subglobose, with a glabrous wrinkled surface ; drupe unknown. 
Eastern Recion: Zululand ; by the Umlatusi River, Gerrard and McKen, 
2027! 
4. V. obovata (E. Meyer, Comm. 273); a tree; young branches 
angular, with short internodes, finely tawny-tomentose, later glab- 
rous, with prominent leaf-scars; leaves opposite, petiolate, 5- 
(rarely 3-) foliolate; petiole tomentose, 5-9 lin. long; leaflets 
coriaceous, obovate or elliptic-obovate, very shortly apiculate, 
euneate at the base, subsessile or shortly petiolulate, entire, 
pubescent or tomentose when young especially along the midrib 
and margins, later finely puberulous beneath or entirely glabrous, 
profusely glandular, with 6-10 obscure primary nerves on each 
side, 1-14 in. long, 3-1 in. broad; cymes axillary, pedunculate, 
divaricate, about equal to the leaves, bracteate, tomentose ; 
bracts elliptic or. oblong-linear, narrowed at the base into a 
short petiole, pubescent along the margins below the middle, 
glandular, lower ones 5-6 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad; flowers 
shortly pedicelled, 2-bracteolate ; calyx of the flower campanulate, 
subequally 5-lobed; tube 10-nerved, profusely glandular and minutely 
pubescent without, glabrous within, about 2 lin. long ; lobes rounded 
or subacute, strongly l-nerved, glandular and finely pubescent, 
8] lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad at the base ; corolla-tube glabrous 
below the middle, finely puberulous and profusely glandular 
without, pubescent within above .the insertion of the stamens 
along 2 anterior parallel lines extending to the base of the anterior 
lobe, about 4 lin. long; lobes glandular and finely pubescent on the 
back and along the margins, glabrous within ; posterior lobes reflexed ; 
stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, included ; 
filaments villous, dilated towards the base ; ovary globose-ovoid, 
glandular and pubescent in the upper two-thirds; drupe obconic, 
shortly apiculate owing to the persistent base of the style, finely 
pubescent and glandular, shorter than the accrescent calyx, 22 lin. 
long, 2 lin. in diam. at the apex. Walp. Rep. iv. 87; Schauer in 
DC. Prod. xi. 693, 
Coast Rereion: Komgha Div.; in a valley near the Kei River, below 
1000 ft., Drége ! among rocks near Kei Hill, Komgha, 1500 ft., Flanagan, 578! 
among rocks on a hill between Komgha and the Kei River, 1500 ft., Flanagan 
in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1515! 
5. V. Rehmanni (Giirke in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 818); a 
shrub; branches with short internodes and prominent leaf-scars, 
finely tomentose in the younger parts; leaves opposite, petiolate, 
5- or 3-foliolate; petiole subangular, finely pubescent, }—]2 in. 
long; leaflets subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, acute, subacute, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the 
base, subsessile or on finely pubescent petiolules 1-3} lin. long, 
