PLaTE 2705. 
VITEX MOOIENSIS, H. H. W. Pearson. 
VERBENACESH. Tribe VITICER. 
V. mooiensis, H. H. W. Pearson (sp. nov.); a speciebus africanis 
omnibus panicula terminali pialuio guia: 
Arbor humilis, ramis subangularibus sulcatis glaberrimis vel novellis 
minute puberulis. Folia opposita, rarius subopp , simplicia, 
membranacea, elliptica vel ov basi cuneata, apice obtus a vel 
subacuta, marginibus integra vel rarius ad deitate: 
serrata, glaberrima vel rarius in nervis te pubescentia vel scabrido- 
minu 
pubescentia, venis primar os lateralibus undulatis utrinque 3-5 patenti- 
adscendentibus distinctis, 3-1 poll. longa, 5-7 lin. lata, petiolis tenuibus 
glabris 2 -3 lin. longis, su a ta. me |—3-flore, edunculis 3— 
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oppositis minute pubescentibus instru ; bractesz: lineari-subulate, 
circa 1} lin. longe. Flores breviter “pedicellat, “albidi. Calyx per 
anthesin subcampanulatus, ad medium subequaliter 5-sectus, glandu- 
losus, minute puberulus, prominenter nervatus, 2-2} lin. longus, mox 
paulo accrescens ; segmenta oblonga, subacuta, 4-3 lin. lata. Corolla 
subbilabiata, 4 lin. longa; tubus brevis, curvatus, extus obscure 
uberulus, intus supra medium villosus, circa 2 lin. longus ; labium 
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tenuis, glaber, apice ‘brovicer bitidus. Drupa pyriformis, glabra, e 
calyce paulo accrescente exserta, 3 lin. longa, 15-2 lin. lata. //, 4. W. 
Pearson in Dyer, Flora Capensis, v 212. 
Soutn Arrica: Natal ; near the Mooi River, Gerrard and McKen, 
1238. 
Var. Rudolphi, H. H. W. Pearson (var. nov.). Rami novelli 
pukescentia fulva vestiti. Folia verticillata vel opposita, pubescentia, 
petiolis pubescentibus suffulta. Calyx =p pubescens, dentatus, 
tubus 1-14 lin. longus ; dentes circa } lin. long 
