=The Flowers= are in small, erect panicles which appear in January. They are about ⅜ inch across, tubular with 5 petals, 4 of which are small and white, the fifth larger and pink. There are 2 long and 2 short stamens. =The Fruits= are in pendulous bunches which ripen from December on. They are black and shiny with little brown lenticels on the skin, a black or dark brown flesh and a large stone. They are ¾-1 inch in diameter. The calyx, which enlarges and holds the unripe fruit, dries, shrivels and recedes from the ripe fruit. Bees are greatly attracted by it. =Uses.=—The wood is used for making small canoes and large drums. The fruits are used for making sweetmeats (alewa and madi) and have a taste of honey. The young leaves are eaten with groundnuts, pepper and salt: they are also an ingredient of ink, being mixed with gum and boiled down to a thickened extract. Beehives are commonly placed in the branches of this tree. [Illustration] =VITEX DIVERSIFOLIA= Baker.—_Dunyar biri_. VERBENACEAE. A small tree some 15 feet high, occasionally more, not very common but occurring here and there in Tree savannah and with a very wide distribution. It has little form, being erect and of open growth. Its distinguishing character is the highly scented leaf and the fact that some may be simple and others tri-foliolate. The leaves and branches are in whorls of three, and the fruits like small, oblong editions of those of the well-known _V. Cienkowskii_. =The Bark= is light grey and very thick with soft cork and large rectangular scales. This is, however, largely due to fires. =The Leaves= are 4-5 inches long and 2-3 inches broad with a stalk 2-3 inches long. When there is a single leaf it is rounded ovate, with slightly cordate base, but if tri-foliolate the leaflets are obovate with tapering base. The margins are waved. The upper surface is dark green with hairs scattered all over the surface and the under side is densely covered, especially on the venation, with hairs, this being far more marked when the leaf is younger, when the venation is very prominent, though it is grooved on the upper surface. The leaves are generally in whorls of three at each stem node. When crushed they give off a strong sage-like odour. =The Flowers= are in cymes in the leaf axils, on long stalks, either in whorls of three or pairs. Each has a 5-pointed bell-shaped calyx, an irregular tubular corolla, the lip large and mauve, the remaining lobes greenish and pubescent, 4 stamens pressed up against the top of the corolla and a small, curved white pistil with bifid stigma. =The Fruits= are egg-shaped, about ¾-1 inch long, ripening from green to black, spotted with lenticels and cupped for about one-third of their length by the hairy enlarged calyx. They are fleshy drupes with a hard “stone” containing 4 cells, each with one seed. The flesh is very narrow. [Illustration] =XIMENIA AMERICANA= Linn.—_Tsada_. OLACACEAE.