Vitex] XCVI. VERBENACE^. 835 



The following perhaps belongs here : — 



PuNGO AxDONGo. — A patently branched, bushy tree, 10 ft. high, 

 ■with trifoliolate leaves and violet-coloured flowers ; fruit obovoid, 

 1 J in, long, with perfected seeds. At Candamba by the river Cuanza ; 

 fr. March 1857. Coll. Carp. 847. 



3. V. angolensis Giirke, I.e. 



HuiLLA.— At Mumpulla, fl. Oct. 1859; fr. Feb. 1860. No. 5758. 

 Flowers violet in colour. In the Empalanca thickets, sporadic ; fl. 

 Jan. 1860. N"o. 5757- 



4. V. Welwitschii Giirke, I.e., p. 166. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — An elegant, densely leafy tree, 12 to 25 ft. high 

 or in the primitive forest probably taller ; leaves evergreen ; flower 

 violet in colour ; drupes (not quite ripe) almost globose, in shape and 

 size like those of a Queen Claude plum, juicy, at first greenish yellow, 

 afterwards dusky purple. In secondary woods close to the declivities 

 of the river Cuango, at the foot of the Queta mountains ; fl. June 1855 

 and March 1856 ; young fr. Aug. 1855. No. 5644. 



This is perhaps the plant referred to by Welwitsch, Apontam. p. 585, 

 n. 15, as a scarcely described species of Vitex or allied genus, occurring 

 in the Golungo Alto primitive forests, and being a beautiful tree with 

 widely spread crown, palmately 5- to 7-foliolate leaves, violet-coloured 

 flowers, and large edible fruit prettily purple in the living state and 

 greedily searched for by the negroes and wild birds. 



5. V. cuspidata Hiern, sp.n. 



A tall tree, in old age leafy only at the top ; timber excellent ; 

 branches spreading, minutely squamulose, smooth ; branchlets 

 opposite, softly tomentellous, patent, tawny-shaggy at the tips ; 

 leaves opposite, spreading, digitately 3- to 5-foliolate; common 

 petioles 2 to 4 in. long, slender, more or less tomentellous ; central 

 leaflet obovate, acutely cuspidate at the apex, wedgeshaped at the 

 shortly petiolulate base, thinly coriaceous, deep green rather 

 glossy and more or less furnished with scattered minute tubercles 

 or scales above, subferruginous and softly tomentellous especially 

 along the midrib and spreading lateral veins beneath, entire, 

 2i to 4^ in. long by 1 to 1| in. broad ; the lateral leaflets smaller ; 

 infructescence axillary, lax, divaricately branched, equalling or 

 exceeding the leaves ; common peduncle 3 to 4^ in. long, rigid, 

 rather slender, tomentellous or obsoletely so ; bracteoles narrow, 

 deciduous, hairy; unripe fruit ovoid, obtuse, subglabrate, ^ in. 

 long, 1^ in. broad, i in. thick ; fruiting calyx subhemispherical, 

 shortly puberulous or obsoletely so, i in. long, the lobes unequal, 

 shallow. 



Golungo Alto. — In the more elevated forests among the mountains 

 of Serra de Alto Queta ; young fr. April 1856. No. 5665 and Coll. 

 Carp. 849. 



The foliage in shape somewhat resembles that of V. Welwitschii. 



6. V. Guerkeana. 



V. rufescens Giirke, I.e., p. 169; non A. Juss. in Ann. Mus. 

 Paris, vii. p. 77 (1806). 



Golungo Alto. — A tree, 25 to 35 ft. high ; head widely spreading, 



