Vitex.] 



CI. VERBENACE/E (bAKER). 



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1. V. chrysoclada, Bojer ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. G94. A 

 shrub about a yard high ; branchlets densely clothed with short stiff 

 drab or brown hairs. Leaves simple, shortly petioled, oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, acute or cuspidate, entire or crenate, 2-6 in. long, thinly pubes- 

 cent above, densely pubescent beneath, with raised brown main veins. 

 Cymes forming a short dense terminal panicle ; branchlets densely 

 pubescent ; bracts large, linear, villous. Flower-calyx canipanulate, 

 pubescent, ^ in. long; teeth minute. Corolla pubescent, twice as long 

 as the calyx. Drupe the size of a pea. — Engl. Hochgebirgstl. Trop. Afr. 

 o57. Premna Zanzibar ensis, Yatke in Linna3a, xliii. 581 ; Giirke in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 338. 



Wrile Ziand. British East Africa : Mombasa Island, Bojer ! Ribe, Wakefield ! 



XMCozamb. I>ist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Hagamoyo, Kirk ! Dar-es- 

 salaam, Hildehrandt, 1167a! Usambara ; Taiiga, Hoht, 2178! T'u/ken.t. 160! 

 Amboni, Hohf, 2570! Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! 



2. V. sulphurea, Baker. A shrub or small tree ; branchlet+i pubes- 

 cent. Leaves simple, opposite, distinctly petioled, oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, entire, acute, moderately tirm, green and finely pubescent on 

 the main ribs on both sides when mature, 3-5 in. long. Cymes forming 

 an ample lax thyrsoid terminal panicle ; branches densely clothed with 

 short stiff drab pubescence ; bracts lanceolate. Flower-calyx campiinu- 



