Vitex] XCVI. VERBENACE^. 837 



a shrublet of 2 ft. freely flowering and fruiting ; flowers violet-bluish. 

 On rather dry bushy slopes and in reed-beds among the Queta 

 mountains ; :fl. May 1855. Nos. 5634, 5635- Roadway leading to 

 Cubata de Tindandolo ; fl. April and May 1855. A form with the 

 leaflets softly and shortly pilose beneath. No. 5695. 



Var. ? pumila. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Pedras de Guinga ; in fl. and young fr. 

 No. 5668. A small subglabrous shrub, 1^ to 3 ft. high ; stems 

 numerous, simple, erect ; leaves 3- to 5-foliolate, coriaceous ; flowers 

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

 rather rare ; fl. March 1857. No. 5747. 



The type specimen of the above species in the National Herbarium 

 is too imperfect to warrant certainty of identification with our 

 specimens ; the Pungo Andongo plants belong perhaps to a distinct 

 species from those of Golungo Alto. 



9. V. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



Closely branched ; branchlets ascending, obtusely angular, 

 somewhat tawny or ashy, more or less tomentellous with pallid 

 short soft hairs ; leaves mostly ternate, 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 pilose -tomentose with pallid hairs, densely cymose, shorter 

 and narrower than the leaves ; common peduncle |^to 1^ in. long ; 

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

 ultimate pedicels very short ; flowers numerous, |^ to ^ in. long ; 

 calyx hairy 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 |- to i in. long, above hairy outside, nearly glabrous 

 below both inside and out, oblique at the top ; the limb unequally 

 5-partite ; the lowest lobe rounded, Jg- 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-tube ; anthers short, just exserted ; style 

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

 microscopically glandular, bifid at the top ; ovary small, 4-celled, 

 as glabrous as the style. 



HuiLLA. — In the wooded parts of the Catumba country among tall 

 bushes ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5759. 



10. V. andongensis Baker & Hiern, sp. n. 



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

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



