Vitex.] CI. VERBENACE^ (baker). 319 



Cymes forming a dense terminal panicle, with white branchlets ; 



bracts lanceolate, minute. Flower-calyx cam pan ii late, canescent, y'^- in! 



long and broad ; teeth very minute. Corolla lavender-blue, ;j'-J in. 



long. Drupe the size of a small pea. — Vatke in Linna^a, x'liii 533 • 



Wight, Ic. t. 519 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 583. ' 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usaranio ; Dar-es-s.ilaam, Hildehrandt 

 1254! 



Also in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 



7. V. Bachanani, Baker in Buchanan, Nyasaland plants, 1801, 

 15 {name only), and ex Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 839. Branches 

 clothed with dense drab pubescence. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate ; 

 leaflets oblong, usually acute, entire or obscurely dentate, cuneate at the 

 base, pubescent on both sides, especially beneath ; central leaflet 2-3 in. 

 long, distinctly petioled. Cymes forming an ample thyrsoid panicle, 

 with densely pubescent branches. Calyx carapanulate, jV in. lon«r ; 

 teeth small, deltoid. Corolla-tube cylindrical, less than twice as long as 

 the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens not protruding beyond the 

 corolla- lobes. 



XtKozamb. I>ist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Malosa, 40C!0- 

 6000 ft., Whyte! plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! and witliout precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 318 ! 385 ! 782 ! 



8. V. thyrsiflora. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 152. A tree; 

 branchlets glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate; leaflets dis- 

 tinctly stalked, obovate-oblong, cuspidate, almost membranous, green 

 and glabrous on the upper surf ace, pale and slightly pubescent beneath, 

 end one 6-8 in. long and 3-3J in. broad at the middle. Cymes forming 

 an ample thyrsoid terminal panicle ; pedicels short, pubescent ; bracts 

 small, linear. Calyx campanulate, ^ in. long ; teeth small, deltoid. 

 Corolla-tube twice the length of the calyx; lobes oblong. Stamens 

 included. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Abeokuta, Harrison, 5 ! in the interior, without 

 precise locality, Rowland I 



9. V. Vogelii, Baker. A small tree 15 ft. high; branchlets clothed 

 with short whitish pubescence. Leaves in whorls of 3, simple, oblong, 

 entire, acute, subcuneate or rather rounded at the base, 4-5 in. long, 

 half as broad, subcoriaceous, green, and finally glabrous above, matted 

 all over beneath with persistent whitish pubescence ; petiole 2 in. 

 long. Cymes axillary, peduncled, few-flowered. Flowers not .seen. 

 Fruit-calyx \ in. diam. ; obscurely lobed. Drupe globose, the size of a 

 cherry. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Bornu ; Musgu, Voyel, 97 ! 



10. V. goxnphophyllay Baker. A tree ; branchlets glabrous. 

 Leaves long-petioled, simple, obovate-cuneate, 2-4 in. long, entire, 

 minutely cuspidate, moderately firm, green and glabrous on both sur- 

 faces. Cymes lax, few-flowered, lateral, shortly peduncled. Calyx 



