Vitex.] CI. VERBENACE^ (baker). 329 



Central Africa : N^asalaud ; jVlagomero, Meller, T) \ Lake N^asa, Kirk! Shire 

 Highlands, Buchanan, 80 ! Karoiiga, Scott I 



" Fruit the size of a cherry ; black plum of Sierra Leone, ' Kdi ' of Xupe ; edible." 

 (Barter). 



48. V. Poggei, Gilrke in Enyl Jahrb. xviii. 1G8. A shrub, with 

 glabrous branchlets. Leaves long-stalked, 5-foliolate ; leaflets sliortly 

 stalked, oblong ; end leaflet G-7 in. long, 2~'2l in. broad, acute or 

 acuminate, coriaceous, quite glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes long- 

 peduncled, axillary, lax, few-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts linear. 

 Calyx campanulate, pubescent, \ in. long ; teeth deltoid, half as long as 

 the tube. Drupe globose, pubescent at the apex. 



Tropical "West Africa. Without locality, probably from Luiida or Angola, 

 Pogge, 1255. 



40. V. mossambicensis, Gilrke in Engl. Pji. Ost-Afr. C. 340. A 

 shrub or tree. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate ; leaflets shortly stalked, 

 ovate, 1|-2J in. long, acuminate, rounded at the base, entire, mem- 

 branous, glabrous above, bearded in the axils of the veins beneath. 

 Cymes with a long peduncle, lax, axillary. Calyx tubular-campanu- 

 late, minutely toothed, pubescent upwards. Corolla-tube short : upper 

 lip bearded. 



Mozamb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Carvalho. 



50. V. Welwitschii, Gilrke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. !()(;. A small 

 tree, ] 2-20 ft. high ; branchlets clothed with short pubescence. Leaves 

 5-foliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous above when mature, 

 finely pubescent beneath ; leaflets obovate-cuneate, entire, conspicuously 

 cuspidate, shortly stalked, end one 3-4 in. long by half as broad ; main 

 petiole 2-0 in. long. Cymes dense, axillary, many-flowered, shortly 

 peduncled. Calyx campanulate, ^ in. long, densely pubescent. Corolla 

 small, violet. Fruit unknown. 



^O'wer Guinea. Angola : in the province of (iolungo Alto, IVelwitsch, 56-14 I 



51. V. axnboniensis, Gierke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 340. A 

 shrub ; branchlets clothed with yellowish hairs. Leaves long-petioled, 

 5-foliolate ; leaflets long-stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 J in. long, very 

 acuminate, narrowed to the base, entire, glabrous above, pubescent and 

 gland-dotted beneath. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 in. long, mucronate, glabrous, 

 spotted with white. 



IVXozainl). Bist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, JloUf, 2578! 

 Portuguese East Africa : between Lupata and Tete, Kirk, 2 I British Central Africa : 

 Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 762 ! 



52. V. andongensiSy Baker. A tree ; branchlets clothed with 

 short drab pubescence. Leaves 5-foliolate, subcoriaceous, green and 

 glabrous above when mature, clothed all over with drab pubescence 

 beneath ; leaflets oblong, acute, entire, all di.stinctly stalked, end ono 



