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ramulis ultimis teretibus, fulvo-pubescentibus; foliis petiolatis, rotundatis, breviter 
apiculatis, basi truncatis v. late cuneatis, lateribus late crenatis, supra hispidulo-pubes- 
centibus, subtus precipue in nervis venulisque reticulatis hirsutis; cymis pedunculatis 
velutino-pubescentibus in paniculas terminales dispositis ; calycis laciniis ovatis, acumi- 
natis, tubo turbinato; corollæ tubo 23 poll. longo, gracili, pilosulo, filamentis exsertis. 
Folia 23-3 poll. longa, 2-3 poll. lata; petiolus 3-1 poll. longus. Bracteæ lineares, acuminate, 
pubescentes. Calyx i-i poll. longus, laciniis 1 poll. longis. Corolle limbi laciniæ obovate v. 
oblongæ. 
Hab. Karagué, 1862 (Clerodendron no. 2, App. Speke’s Journ. 644). 
ГА shrub not above 2 feet high. Its branches are pithy and covered with velvet-like down; young 
shoots have a rich purple-velvet colour. Leaves 8 by 3 inches; between round and rhomboid in shape, 
they grow irregularly upon the stem, and have crenate edges; their texture is soft, and colour deep 
green. Calyx of five deeply divided, equal, green sepals, much broader than the white corolla, which 
is six times the length of the calyx. "The pistil is longer than the stamina; and all extend beyond the 
flower. Its straight branches being very pithy, are used by the natives as sucking-tubes, or “ meereeja," 
in the same way as we use straws when taking American drinks, Found in flower at Karagué in March 
1862.—J. А.С.) 
Plate LXXXIX. fig. 1. Calyx and pistil ; fig. 2. Ovary; fig. 8. Anther; fig. 4. Trans- 
verse section of ovary; fig. 5. Stigma. 
6. OYcLoNEMA MYRICOIDES, Hochst., DC. Prod. xi. 675. Var. foliis verticillatis, 8-4- 
pollicaribus, cuneato-ellipticis v. ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, margine integris v. supra 
medium paucidentato-serratis, pagina superiore scabrula х. sapi inferiore fulvo- 
 pubescente. 
Hab. Usui, Nov. 1861 (Cyclonema, sp., App. Speke's Journ. 644), Col. Grant I . 
I should scarcely have ventured to refer these specimens to the Abyssinian species were it not that a 
form as divergent from the type, but glabrous and with opposite leaves, had ec? во referred Бу Пт. 
Schweinfurth (C. myricoides, var. glabrata, Schweinf. in hb. Matamma). 
[This is common on waste ground at 2° 41! S. lat., where it was flowering in November. Тһе 
flowers are of a light purple colour; and the berry is Бесім! А. 6.1 
Я. VITEX SIMPLICIFOLIA, Oliv., sp. nov. Ramis teretiusculis v. obtuse tetragonis, gla- 
brescentibus, novellis pilosulis ; foliis sæpius simplicibus, ternatim vertieillatis, longiuscule 
petiolatis, late ellipticis, breviter apiculatis, distanter erenato-dentatis, coriaceis, supra 
glabrescentibus, subtus pubescenti-hirtellis, reticulatis ; pedunculis axillaribus gracilibus, 
petiolo subæquilongis; cymis paucifloris; calyce fructifero late dentato; fructu ob- 
ovoideo v. ellipsoideo, obtuso, glabro. 
Frutex. Folia 4-7 poll. longa, 23-44 poll. lata, petiolus 2-23 poll longus. Calyz fructifer 4 poll. 
latus, pilosulus. Fructus (in sicco) 3-4 poll. longus. 
Hab. Madi, Feb. 1863 (Vitex no. 1, App. Speke’s Journ. 644), Col. Grant! 
To the same species I refer specimens collected in Musgu, Central Africa, by E. Vogel, with leaves 
tawny pubescent-tomentose beneath. I have not seen flowers. 
— [This shrub has a rich perfume about it. Fruits in February at 8° 15! N. lat. Leaves single, stalked, 
say 6 by 4 inches, in whorls of threes. Fruit is a plum, shaped like a date, but half its size; smooth 
skin, now green, but yellow when ripe; its taste is rather acrid, Only met with here, and called the 
genuine “ m'thalassee" (or Vitex), which, the natives tell me, never attains the size of a tree.— 
J.A.G] 
