Vitex.] CI. vERBENACE.t; (haker). o21 



ovate, petioled, shortly cuspidate, furnished with a few large teeth, 

 '^-2}^ in. long, half as broad, bright green and glabrous above, pale 

 beneath with a hairy midrib. Cymes axillary, peduncled ; branchlets 

 pubescent; bracts linear, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, spai-sely 

 pubescent, with 5 very acute teeth. Corolla hairy, three times the 

 length of the calyx. r3rupe small, obovoid. 



IVIozainb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi. :;t Tete, Peiers ! 



K). V. Kirkii, ^ff^er. A shrub or small tree; branchlets finely 

 pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous 

 above, pubescent beneath ; leaflets shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse, 

 entire, end one 1-U- in. long; main petiole under 1 in. long. Cymes 

 very lax-flowered, axillary, often 2-3-nate from the apex of the 

 branchlets ; pedicels pubescent ; bracts linear, minute. Calyx campanu- 

 late, pubescent, yV in. long; teeth minute, deltoid. Corolla pink, ^ in. 

 long; lower lip much longer than the upper. Drupe globose, the size 

 of a large pea. 



IMEozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk ! 

 Britisli Centi-al Africa : Northern Zarabesia ; Borunin, Menyharth, 87 



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17. V, polyantha. Baker. A shrub or small tree; branchlets 

 short, clothed with short drab pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate, moderately 

 firm, dark green and glabrous above when mature, paler and pubescent 

 all over beneath; leaflets oblong, acute, entire, sessile, 1— 1 i in. long; 

 main petiole slender, 1-2 in. long. Cymes very numerous, axillary, 

 shortly peduncled, congested; pedicels densely hairy, very short. 

 Calyx campanulate, densely pubescent, j.r in. long, minutely toothed. 

 Corolla small, very pubescent. 



Srile Xiand. British East Africa: Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



18. V. flavescens, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 87. A shrub ; 

 branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, entire, 2-3 in. long, densely pubescent, especially 

 beneath. Cymes axillary, long-peduncled, few-flowered; branches 

 pubescent; bracts minute. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, | in. long; 

 teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 small, orbicular. Stamens much longer than the lobes.— T. Mec/ioirii, 

 Glirke in Engl. Jahrb.xviii. 1G7 ; Henriquesin Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. (!!>. 



IiO\(rer Guinea. Angola, W^eltcifsch, b7 31 I Malange, in pastures, J/cr^o/r. 247, 

 Marques, 8 ! 



19. V. tangensis, Gio-ke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ('. :VM). A .shrub 

 15-20 ft. high ; branchlets clothed with yellowisli hairs. Loaves dis- 

 tinctly petioled, P)-foliolate ; leaflets distinctly stalked, oblong-l.mceolate, 

 2-3 in. long, acute or acuminate, entire, glabrous above, pubescent and 

 dotted beneath. Cymes dense, axillary, peduncled ; pedicels pubescent ; 

 bracts lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, clothed with yellowish pubes- 



