Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke

Shrub 2–4.5 m. or branched tree 3–15 m. tall or even described as a herb to 1.2 m.; bark smooth, yellow-green; young shoots often square, with dense pubescence of short curled and adpressed and rather longer spreading hairs.. Leaves aromatic, 3–5-foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 3.5–18 cm. long, 2–9 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, entire or toothed, ± discolorous, subscabrid above with short hairs or glabrescent but with small yellow glands, sparsely to densely pubescent to subtomentose beneath particularly on the venation and densely dotted with small yellow glands; petiole 4–12.5 cm. long; petiolules 0–2.5 cm. long.. Inflorescences much branched, paniculate, 10–30 cm. long, densely pubescent with short and long hairs and glandular; bracts linear, 2–3 mm. long; pedicels 0–1.5 mm. long, enlarging to 2–3 mm. in fruit.. Calyx 2 mm. long, ribbed, denticulate or shallowly toothed, densely pubescent.. Corolla white or greenish yellow; tube 3–4.5 mm. long, the upper part glandular and tomentose outside; upper lip bilobed with lobes 1–1.5 mm. long, lower lip 3-lobed, 2.5 mm. long.. Style 2–5 mm. long.. Fruit very characteristic, globose, 5–7 mm. diameter, so densely glandular as to appear yellow or yellow-brown but white under the coating; calycine cup 7–9 mm. wide, pubescent and gland-dotted.