834 xcvi. VERBENACE^. [Prem7ia 



gigantic rocks to the south-west of the prassidium, near Pedra Sonde ; 

 fl. and young fr. 3 Jan. 1857. No. 5735. In fl. No. 5677. 



The following two Nos. possibly belong to Fremna, but I cannot 

 identify them with any described species ; they are apparently 

 conspecific : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Shrubby ; branches spreading, ascending, glabrate 

 or obsoletely puberulous, cinereous ; branchlets angular, beset with 

 short close pallid stellate hairs ; leaves ternate or opposite, obovate, 

 obtuse and apiculate at the apex, wedgeshaped at the base, thinly 

 coriaceous, dark green and nearly glabrate above, paler and beset with 

 short stellate pale hairs beneath, 2 to 3 in. long by | to H in. broad, 

 entire or subrepand on the very narrowly revolute margin, exstipulate, 

 lateral veins about 6 on each side, slender ; petioles l to f in. long^ 

 hairy at least above ; inflorescence terminal and subterminal, branched, 

 tomentose with pale stellate hairs, bracteate ; bracteoles narrow. Near 

 Quilombo ; fl. not developed, Jan. 1855. No. 5637- 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 4 ft. high ; leaves narrowly elliptical or obovate. 

 In thickets near the Ivantala lake, sporadic ; fl. not developed, end of 

 Feb. 1860. No. 5754. 



6. VITEX Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1154. 



1. V. madiensis Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 134. t. 131 

 (1875). 



V. ca7nporum Biittn. in Verb. Bot. Brandenb. xxxii. p. 35 (1890). 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — In the primitive forest a small tree of 6 to 8 ft., 

 but in secondary thickets a shrub of 1^ to 3 ft. sometimes somewhat 

 erect sometimes almost decumbent ; leaves sometimes simple some- 

 times trifoliolate ; infructescence axillary, cymose ; common peduncle 

 1§ in. long, puberulous ; fruit glabrescent, ^ in. in diameter ; fruiting 

 calyx hemispherical, sub-entire. In wooded sunny places and in rather 

 dry open thickets in Sobata de Mussengue, at Menha-Lula ; fr. May 

 1855. No. 5713. In fl. No. 5728. 



Var. parvifolia. 



Leaves trifoliolate or simple; the middle or only leaflet IJ to 

 2^ in. long by 1 to 1| in. broad ; the lateral ones smaller. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub of 6 to 8 ft., perhaps in the primitive 

 forest a tree ; flowers violet-blue ; fruit like a grape in shape, almost 

 as large as that of F. Ckuhowshu (Welw. herb. nn. 5633, 5645). In 

 the drier secondary thickets of Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. Jan. 1856. 

 No. 5636. 



V. simplicifoUa Oliv., I.e., p. 133. 1. 130, non C.B. CI., is probably the 

 same species, since our specimens include both simple and trifoliolate 

 leaves and both longer and shorter peduncles. 



2. V. Mechowii GUrke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 1G7 

 (22 Dec. 1893). 



V.favescens Rolfe in Bot. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 87 (1894). 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A dwarf shrub, 2 to 3^ ft. high, softly shaggy- 

 tomentose throughout ; branches patent ; flowers violet-blue, or 

 reddish purple, comparatively large. In bushy secondary forests near 

 Cazella, between Zamba and Pungo Andongo ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 5731. A shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, divaricately branched ; flowers 

 lilac like those of rosemary. In sandy thickets between Cazella and 

 Luxillo, sparingly ; fl. 18 Oct. 1856. No. 5697. 



