838 xcvi. VERBENACE^. [Vitex 



foliolate ; central leaflet broadly elliptical oval or somewhat ovate, 

 shortly and acutely acuminate or only apiculate at the apex, 

 somewhat narrowed or obtuse at the base, thinly coriaceous, 

 entire, yellowish green (in the dry state) and nearly glabrous 

 above, pallid and shortly tomentellous beneath, 2^ to 61 in. long, 

 by 1^ to 3J in. broad ; lateral veins 10 to 20, slender, spreading- 

 ascending ; lateral leaflets rather smaller ; common petiole 4 to 

 8 in. long, robust, slightly or obsoletely tomentellous; central 

 petiolule J to 1 j- in. long, somewhat or obsoletely tomentellous ; 

 lateral petiolules rather shorter; inflorescence axillary, divaricately 

 and dichotomously cymose, sometimes with a single shortly pedi- 

 cellate flower in the forks, shorter than the leaves, shortly tomen- 

 tellous ; peduncle 1|- to 4 in. long; ultimate pedicels mostly very 

 short ; bracts narrow, tomentose beneath, f in. long or shorter, 

 deciduous ; flowers numerous, mostly crowded, about 4 in. long, 

 calyx |- in. long, cup-shaped, subtruncate, scarcely or irregularly 

 toothed, pallid and tomentellous outside, glabrous inside, some 

 what increased in fruit; corolla about J- in. long; the tube 

 obliquely funnel-shaped, J in. long, glabrous below; the limb 

 unequally 5 -partite ; the lobes obtuse and rounded at the apex, 

 shortly tomentellous at the back, glabrous inside ; the lowest 

 lobe i in. long, suberect ; the other lobes shorter, spreading or 

 reflected ; the throat hairy ; stamens 4, subdidynamous, inserted 

 at the throat of the corolla, glabrous ; anthers short, first ex- 

 serted ; young fruit egg-shaped, i in. long, glabrate, received at 

 the base in the cup of the persistent calyx. 



PuNGO Andongo.— In fl. and young fr. Dec. 1856. No. 5696. 



This species difiers from V. cuneata Thonn. by the subtruncate 

 calyx. The following perhaps belongs here : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect little tree, 2 to 6 ft. high, divaricately 

 branched at the apex. In thickets at Condo and Quisonde ; fr. March 

 1857. Fruit obovoid-oblong, i in. long or rather more. Called 

 *' Muxillo cafele." Coll. Carp.^848. 



11. V. oxycuspis Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. ined. 



"A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; branchlets glabrous ; leaves 

 3- to 5-foliate, membranous, green and glabrous on both sides ; 

 leaflets obovate-cuneate, irregularly crenate, with a large linear 

 cusp, distinctly stalked ; end one G to 8 in. long by less than half 

 as broad ; main petiole 2 to 3 in. long ; cymes lax, long-peduncled, 

 axillary ; branchlets glabrous ; flower-calyx campanulate, glabrous, 

 ^^7 in. long ; teeth short, deltoid ; corolla glabrous, three times the 

 length of the calyx ; fruit unknown." — Baker MS. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A low bush, probably a young state of a tree ; 

 trunk erect ; branches slender, glabrous, erect-spreading : leaves 5- to 

 3-foliolate, membranous, glabrous ; leaflets narrowly elliptical, acumi- 

 nate, coarsely serrate-dentate, somewhat shining, green above, sub- 

 glaucous beneath, H to 4| in. long by ^ to 1^ in. broad ; petiole h in. 

 long or less. In secondary woods in the Eastern Queta mountains ; 

 without fl. or fr. Feb. 1856. No. 5671. 



This species is founded on a specimen collected by Mann, n, 2243. 



