Vitex] XCVT. VERBENACE^. 837 



a shrublet of 2 ft. freely flowering and fruiting : flowers violet-bluisb. 

 On rather dry busby slopes and in reetl-beds among the Queta 

 mountains ; fl. May ISo;'). Nos. 5634, 5635- Koadway leading to 

 Cubata de Tindandolo ; H. April and May 1"^.'>'>. A form with the 

 leaflets softly and shortly pilose beneath. No. 5695- 



Var. ? pumila. 



PuNco AmiOm;<). — Pedras de (iuinga ; in (1. and young fr. 

 No. 5668. A small subglabrous shrub, l.V to ;'. ft. high; stems 

 numerous, simple, erect; leaves 3- to .")-f()liolate, coriaceous; flowers 

 becoming violet in colour. In wooded thickets near Podra de Guinga, 

 rather rare ; H. March ]8."»7. No. 5747. 



The type specimen of the above species in the National Herl)arium 

 is too imperfect to warrant certainty of identification with our 

 specimens : the Pungo Andongo plants belong perhaps to a distinct 

 species from those of ( rolungo Alto. 



9. v. huillensis lliem, sp. n. 



Closely branched ; branchlets ascending, obtusely angular, 

 .'ioniewhat tawny or a.shy, more or less tomentellous with pallid 

 .sliort soft hairs ; leaves mostly ternato, digitately 3- to 5-foliolate ; 

 common petiole 1 to 2 in. long, pilose-tomentellous ; central leaflet 

 obovate, often narrowly so, shortly acuminate pointed or rounded 

 at the apex, wedgeshaped or obtuse at the base, thinly and 

 firmly coriaceous, yellowish green and somewhat scabrid above 

 with very short deciduous hairs arising from minutely tubercular 

 persistent bases, pallid and softly and shortly pilosulous beneath, 

 entire, 2 to 3' in. long by 1] to 1;,' in. broad, shortly petiolulate ; 

 lateral veins about 10 on each side of the midrib, .slender, midrib 

 prominent beneath ; lateral leaflets smaller ; inflorescence axillary, 

 softly pi lo.se -tomentose w^ith pallid hairs, den.sely cymose, shorter 

 and narrower than the leaves; common peduncle -j to lA in. long ; 

 bracts very narrow, subulate, ,\ in. long or shorter, deciduous ; 

 ultimate pedicels very short ; flowers numerous, ] to 1 in, long ; 

 calyx baiiy outside, glabrous inside, obliquely campanulate in 

 flower, .somewhat enlarged and hemispherical in young fruit, 

 shortly 5-lobed ; the lobes subdeltoid, pointed, somewhat unequal ; 

 corolla-tube J- to i in. long, above hairy outside, nearly glabrous 

 below both inside and out, obli(iue at the top ; the limb unequally 

 5-partite ; the lowest lobe rounded, ^\y in. long, suberect or 

 .spreading, hairy outside near the base, glabrous above and inside ; 

 the other lobes smaller ; the throat glabrous or nearly .so ; 

 stamens 4, subdidynamous ; filaments pilosulous, inserted about 

 the middle of the corolla-tuVje ; anthers short, just exserted ; style 

 I in. long, equalling the longer .stamens, slender, glabrous or 

 microscopically glandular, bilid at the top ; ovary small, -tcelled, 

 as glabrous as the style. 



Hr 1 1. 1. A. — In the wooded parts of the Catumba countrv among tall 

 bushes : fl. and yoiuig fr. Dec. 18.0U. No. 5759. 



10. V. andongensis Uaker <fc lliern, sp. n. 



Branches woody, tawny, scarcely tetragonal, pilose and leafy at 

 the apex ; glabrate below ; leaves opposite, digitate, quinque- 



