320 CI. VERBENACE^ (baker). [Vitex. 



campanulate, coriaceous, glabrous, subentire, J-J in. diarn. Corolla 

 not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Dantina, on a laterite plateau, 3000-4000 ft. 

 Scott-Elliot, 5389 ! 



11. V. syringaefolia, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 115. A 

 shrub ; branches glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, simple, oblong, 

 acute, entire, rounded at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2-2J in. broad, green 

 and glabrous on bouh surfaces. Cymes sessile, axillary, many-flowered. 

 Fruit-calyx \ in. long, green, glabrous ; teeth small, ovate. Corolla- 

 tube short, cylindrical ; lobes oblong, as long as the tube. 



TTpper Guinea. Interior of Western Lagos, Rowland ! 



12. V. simplicifolia, Oliii. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 133, 

 t. 130, not of C.B. Clarke. A small tree; branchlets woody, glabrous. 

 Leaves simple, ternate, oblong, obtuse or minutely cuspidate, rounded 

 at the base, 6 in. long, 4 in. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous and rather 

 glossy above, pubescent all over beneath ; petiole glabrous, 2 in. long. 

 Cymes few-flowered, axillary, ped uncled. Flowers not seen. Fruit- 

 calyx J in. diam., obscurely toothed. Drupe oblong, the size of 

 a sloe. 



lO'lle Iiand. British East Africa : Madi, Speke Sf Orant, 701/5 ! 



An allied plant gathered by Welwitsch in Angola in the province of Golungo Alio, 

 has occasionally two small accessory leaflets on the lower leaves of the branch. It is 

 a shrub 6-8 ft. high. 



13. V. petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Bot. 264. 

 Branchlets clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 ovate, acute, inciso-crenate, bright green above, paler beneath ; central 

 one 1 in. long. Cymes axillary at tlie apex of the branchlets, shortly 

 peduncled, pubescent, with a flower on a short pedicel at the fork ; 

 bracts small, linear, villous. Calyx cyathiform, pubescent, 5-dentate. 

 Corolla pubescent, twice as long as the calyx. 



IVXozamb. I>lst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zan)besi, at Tete, Peters. 



14. V. tettensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Bot. 264. 

 Branchlets clothed with pale brown pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate, 

 crowded at the apex of the branchlets ; leaflets ovate, petioled, shortly 

 cuspidate, more or less serrate, |-1 in. long, glabrous above, pubescent 

 on the ribs beneath. Cymes peduncled, few-flowered, axillary from 

 the end of the branchlets. Calyx cyathiform, 4-5-toothed, sparsely 

 pubescent. Corolla cylindrical, sparsely pubescent outside. Drupe 

 globose, the size of a pea. 



Mozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, at Tete, Peter."!. 



15. V. dentata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh, Bot. 265. 

 Branchlets villous with white hairs. Leaves remote, 3-foliolate ; leaflets 



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