Hymenodictyoii] lxix. rubiace^. 437 



HuiLLA. — In the more elevated wooded rocky but little shady parts 

 of Morro de Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1859 ; fr. March 1860. No. 3033. 



5. CORYNANTHE Welw. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. Pi. ii. p. 36. 

 1. C. paniculata Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 37, t. 14 



(1869) ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 43 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 194. 



Rubiacea, Welw. Synopse Expl. p. 7, n. 2 (1862). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very useful and magnificent tree, 40 to 60 ft. 

 high, with the habit of Phillyrea latifolia L. ; trunk straight, very 

 rarely bent, 1 to 2| ft. in diameter near the base ; wood very dense, 

 excellent, of fine grain, white, hard, durable, used in housebuilding and 

 for many other purposes ; branches rather erect, the lower ones usually 

 directed downwards on the adult tree, leaves opposite, coriaceous, but 

 little glossy (or in the dried state glossy-green above), evergreen ; 

 flowers thyrsoid, collected in terminal panicles, white, slightly fragrant, 

 much frequented by bees, rather fleshy ; calyx oblong-campanulate, 

 green, 5-toothed, inferior, persistent, including the ovary ; corolla white, 

 hypocraterif orm, shaggy at the throat, spreading in flower, with a fleshy 

 subturbinate tube inserted on the throat of the calyx, with a 5-clef t 

 limb and gibbous ovate lobes valvate in aestivation, and having a long 

 club-like whitish appendage below their hooded tops ; stamens 5, alter- 

 nating with the corolla-lobes, exserted ; filaments sub-obsolete ; anthers 

 rigid, fleshy, linear-oblong, subsessile at the throat of the corolla, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, attached at the middle of the back ; 

 cells a little diverging below, subulate and empty at the apex ; ovary 

 ovoid-conical ; style thickly filiform, central, filling the whole cavity of 

 the corolla-tube, exserted at the time of flowering, white ; stigma 

 ovoid, obtuse, thick, rather compressed, longitudinally furrowed, 

 white ; capsule fuscous, bi-sulcate, mucronate with the persistent 

 calyx-teeth. Forming extensive forests in nearly aU the more elevated 

 parts of Quilombo and Mata de Alto Queta ; fl. Jan. to May, fr. 

 March to July, 1855 and 1856 ; about Montalegre (Cungulungulo), 

 Feb. 1855. Native name " Mangue," the Portuguese name is " Mangue 

 do Monte " or " Paco de Grolungo Alto." No. 1508. 



It occurs also in similar situations in the districts of Cazengo and 

 Dembos. On the bark of this tree grew the Lichens nn. 130, 139, and on 

 its wood the Fungus n. 366. 



6. CROSSOPTERYX Fenzl ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 41. 

 1. C. Kotschyana Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. (vi.) p. 46 (1839) : 



Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 44 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 194 

 (1884). 



C. africana Baill. Hist. PI. vii. p. 489 (1879). Rubiacea, Welw. 

 Apont. p. 590 [n. 96]. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A loosely branched tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 

 4 to 6 in. in diameter near the base ; branches elongated, erect-spread- 

 ing ; branchlets dilatate-flattened at the nodes from which the inflores- 

 cence arises ; leaves bright-green, sub-tomentose beneath, deciduous ; 

 capsule 2-valved, dehiscing at the apex, 2-celled ; cells many-seeded ; 

 seeds surrounded with a fringed wing. In rough places at the borders 

 of the primitive forests of Alto Queta ; scarcely ripe fr. June 1856. 

 No. 3034. A shrub of 12 ft., with spreading branches, and leaves 

 deciduous at the time of fruiting. Structure of the fruit very curious. 

 At Catomba ; fr. July 1856. Coll. Carp. 633. 



