Fj^emna.] ci. verbenacE/E (baker). 289 



tube scarcely longer than the calyx; lobes small. Stamens included. 

 Style much exserted. 



X^ozamb. ]>ist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan ! 



'K P. angolensis, Giirke in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 1G5. A shrub 

 IG ft. high, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves 2-4-nate, ovate or sub- 

 orbicular, entire, shortly cuspidate, rounded or cordate at the base, 

 sometimes o-O in. long, glabrous on both surf aces. Inflorescence a long 

 thyrsoid panicle ; primary branches dichotomous ; ultimate branchlets 

 finely pubescent, bearing very dense clusters of flowers ; pedicels very 

 short. Flower-calyx j-\r in. long; lobes obscure, minute. Corolla-tube 

 slightly longer than the calyx ; lobes 4, unequal. Stamens reaching to 

 the tip of the corolla-lobes. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola, Welivifsch, 5628 ! 5724 ! Loango. Soi/atix, 159 ! 

 Majakalla country, Mechow, 527. 



4. P. quadrifolia, Schumach. d- Thonn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 

 633. An erect shrub, with shortly pubescent branchlets. Leaves ovate 

 or oblong, some 4-nate, cuspidate, entire or obscurely crenate, 2-4 in. 

 long, rounded or cordate at the base, finely pubescent on both surfaces ; 

 petiole long. Cymes forming a thyrsoid panicle ; branchlets pubescent ; 

 bracts lanceolate, minute ; pedicels very short. Flower-calyx -yV~tV i°- 

 long, pubescent ; lobes very short and obscure. Corolla-tube longer 

 than the calyx ; lobes 4, unequal. Stamens shortly exserted from the 

 corolla-tube. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 485. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea : near Fredrlksberg, Thonning. Lagos : Abeokuta, 

 Barter, 3358 ! Niger Territory, Vogel ! 



5. P. resinosa, Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 637. An erect shrub 

 mth slender white glabrous or slightly pubescent branchlets. Leaves 

 of the flowering shoots petioled, ovate or oblong, entire, obtuse, 

 J-l^ in. long, glabrous or obscurely pubescent beneath, of the sterile 

 shoots sometimes crenate. Panicle small, terminal, peduncled, corym- 

 bose ; pedicels glabrous or pubescent ; bracts ovate, minute. Calyx 

 campanulate, yV in. long, glabrous or pubescent ; teeth small, broadl}' 

 deltoid. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the calyx ; limb bilabiate ; 

 lobes orbicular. Stamens and style included. Drupe black, the size of 

 a small pea. — Holochiloma resinosum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, :'i71. 



Wile Iiand. Nubia : Coast Region, Bent ! near Suakin, at Gebcl Uaratnb, 

 Schweinfurth, 53 ! between Suakin and Berber, at Slngat, Srhweinfurth, 330 ! and at 

 Wady 6-Mareg, Schweinfnrth, 431 ! Eritrea : near Saati, Schweinfurth \ Jiiia, 305 ! 

 Kordofan: Blount Arashkol, Kotschy, 198 ! near Melbes. Kotschii, 41t: Abu Hnrazn. 

 P/'«?i(Z, 132 ! Abu Snun, Ffmd,^2d>\ Wadi Taiarab, P/*««(f, 8161 betucn El Obeid 

 and Melbes, Pfund, 848 ! and witbout precise locality, Kut.scht/, 254 ! 



Also in Arabia. 



0. P. somaliensis. Baker. An erect shrub, 10 ft. high, with 

 slender woody glabrous branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate, 

 1-Uy in. long, obtuse, obscurely crenate, turning black when dried, 



