834 xcvi. VERBENACE^. [Prejrnio- 



gigantic rooks to the south-west of the prsesidium, near Pedra Sonde ; 

 fl. and young fr. 3 Jan. 1857. No. 5735. In fl. No. 5677. 



The following two Nos. possibly belong to Premna, but I cannot 

 'identify them with any described species; they are apparently 

 conspecific : — 



GOLUNGO Alto. — Shrubby ; branches spreading, ascending, glabrate 

 or obsoletely puberulous, cinereous ; branchlets angular, beset with 

 short close pallid stellate hairs ; leaves ternate or opposite, obovate, 

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

 coriaceous, dark green and nearly glabrate above, paler and beset with 

 short stellate pale hairs beneath, 2 to 3 in. long by j to 1;^ in. broad, 

 entire or subrepand on the very narrowly revolute margin, exstipulate, 

 lateral veins about 6 on each side, slender ; petioles |^ to f in. long, 

 hairy at least above ; inflorescence terminal and subterminal, branched, 

 tomentose with pale stellate hairs, bracteate ; bracteoles narrow. Near 

 Quilombo ; fl. not developed, Jan. 1855. No. 5637. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 4 ft. high ; leaves narrowly elliptical or obovate. 

 In thickets near the Ivant&la lake, sporadic : fl. not developed, end of 

 Feb. 1860. No. 5754. 



6. VITEX Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1154. 



1. V. madiensis Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 134. t. 131 

 (1875). 



V. ccumporum BUttn. in "Verb. Bot. Brandenb. sxxii. p. 35 (1890). 



GOLUNGO Alto. — In the primitive forest a small tree of 6 to 8 ft., 

 but in secondary thickets a shrub of 1 J to 3 ft. sometimes somewhat 

 erect sometimes almost decumbent ; leaves sometimes simple some- 

 times trifoliolate ; infructescence axillary, cymose ; common peduncle 

 If in. long, puberulous ; fruit glabrescent, J in. in diameter ; fruiting 

 calyx hemispherical, sub-entire. In wooded sunny places and in rather 

 dry open thickets in Sobata de Mussengue, at Menha-Lula ; fr. May 

 1855. No. 5713. In fl. No. 5728. 



Var. parvifolia. 



Leaves trifoliolate or simple; the middle or only leaflet 1|- to 

 2|^ in. long by 1 to 1| in. broad ; the lateral ones smaller. 



GoLtTNGO Alto. — A shrub of 6 to 8 ft., perhaps in the primitive 

 forest a tree ; flowers violet-blue ; fruit like a grape in shape, almost 

 as large as that of V. CienkowskU (Welw. herb. nn. 5633, 5645). In. 

 the drier secondary thickets of Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. Jan. 1856. 

 No. 5636. 



V. simpUci/oUa Oliv., I.e., p. 133. 1. 130, non C.B. 01., is probably the 

 same species, since our specimens include both simple and trifoliolate 

 leaves and both longer and shorter peduncles. 



2. V. Mechowii Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 167 

 (22 Deo. 1893). 



V.Jlavescms Eolfe in Bot. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 87 (1894). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A dwarf shrub, 2 to 3J ft. high, softly shaggy- 

 tomentose throughout ; branches patent ; flowers violet-blue, or 

 reddish purple, comparatively large. In bushy secondary forests near 

 OazeUa, between Zamba and Pungo Andongo; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 5731. A shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, divaricately branched ; flowers, 

 lilac like those of rosemary. In sandy thickets between Cazella and 

 Luxillo, sparingly ; fl. 18 Oct. 1856. No. 5697. 



