Oldenlandia] lxix. rubiace^. 441 



herbaceous exposed elevated situations at Empalanca ; fl. and fr. 

 April 1860. No. 3082. 



3. 0. sipaneoides K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 417. 



PuNCio Andongo. — An erect or ascending tender herb ; leaves deep- 

 green, membranous ; flowers beautifully azure-blue. In the caves of 

 the elevated rocks of Tunda Quilombo within the praesidium, fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1857. (Capsule dehiscing loculicidally at the apex ; seeds 

 numerous, angular.) No. 3075. 



Var. asperuloides Hiern. 



A weak, slender, erect, herbaceous -green, sub-glaucescent, , 

 annual herb, with the habit of an Asjyeriila, 3 to 8 in. high, 

 simple or with a few spreading or ascending branches, glabrate 

 except the youngest parts ; stem quadrangular or towards the base 

 two-edged; internodes longer than the leaves; leaves ovate or 

 lanceolate, sub-apiculate, not acuminate, broad near the cuneate 

 base, thinly membranous, with 4 or 5 slender not conspicuous 

 veins on each side of the slender midrib, |^ to 1 in. long by ^ to 

 I in. broad ; petiole ^V ^o 1^ "^- ^^^S^ spreading, slender ; stipules 

 from a broad shortly sheathing base narrowed into a long subulate- 

 acuminate ciliolate apex, rather shorter than the petiole ; inflores- 

 cence terminal axillary or opposite to a leaf, slender, simple or 

 somewhat branched, usually with a subsessile flower at the point 

 of dichotomy or subspicate, few-flowered, ranging up to about an 

 inch long ; pedicels mostly very short, but ranging up to | in. 

 long ; bracteoles very small, subulate ; flow-ers azure-blue, i to § in. 

 long ; calyx-limb 4-partite, — ^° tV ^^ 1°^§ ^^^ flower, enlarging 

 to |- to |- in. long in fruit, persistent; segments sub -linear in 

 flower, slightly spathulate in fruit, equal or nearly so ; corolla -tube 

 slender, salver-shaped, ^ in. long, straight; limb quadrifid, funnel- 

 shaped, g in. in diameter ; stamens 4 ; anthers linear-oblong, just 

 exserted at the mouth of the corolla, dorsifixed near the base ; 

 filaments very slender, about as long as the anthers ; style exserted 

 rather beyond the anthers ; ovary campanulate, shorter than the 

 calyx-limb ; capsule depresso-globose, somewhat flattened, 2-celled 

 PuNGO Andongo. — In very shady caves at the summit of the ranges 

 of rocks within the prsesidium, in company with Begonia rostruta 

 Welw. ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3076. 



4. 0. huillensis Hiein, sp. n. 



A hispid-pubescent perennial herb, 6 to 12 in. high ; rootstock 

 thick, woody, branched, giving ofi" from its crown numerous stems 

 spreading in all directions ; stems simple or branched above, rather 

 slender, somewhat quadrangular and between the angles sulcate ; 

 leaves ovate oi' lanceolate, apiculate at the apex, obtusely narrowed 

 or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, herbaceous- 

 green, rather dull, with 3 to 6 inconspicuous lateral veins on each 

 side of the midrib, ^^ to 1| in. long by g to ^ in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to | in. long, spreading ; stipules truncate, pluri-setose ; 

 flowers at first whitish, turning azure-blue, ^ to f in. long, arranged 

 in compound terminal hemispherical cymes of about an inch in 

 diameter ; ultimate pedicels short or very short ; calyx-limb 



