JIusscenda] LXix. rubiace^. 453 



small ; calyx hispid-tomentose ; tube campanulate-oblong, about 

 ^ in. long, tipped with 4 erect half -oval or oblong obtu.se lobes 

 ^ to i in. long, and usually with one or two milk-white or 

 sulphur-whitish foliaceous obovate-oblong or sub-orbicular some- 

 what hispid-pubescent enlarged lobe about 2 in. long, but some- 

 times all the 5 calyx-teeth are quite equal ; corolla yellow, narrowly 

 salver-shaped, hispid-tomentose with downward hairs outside ; 

 tube about g to 1 in. long ; limb about | in. in diameter ; fruit 

 ellipsoidal, shortly hipsidulous or subglabrate, about § to | in. long, 

 crowned with the remains of the calyx-teeth. 



HuiLLA. — In dense forests by cataracts near Lopollo, very abundant, 

 in company with Ep'dohium hirsutum L., Osmu/ida regalis L., and 

 species of Rumex, Blyxa, Ertocatdo)/, etc. ; fl. and fr. almost during 7 

 months, Dec. 1859, Jan. and 5 April 1860. No. 1118, and Coll. Carp. 9. 



Related to J/. Afzelii G-. Don, but with longer calyx-teeth. 



2. M. arcuata Lam. ex Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. iv. p. 392 

 (1796) ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 68. 



CazexCtO. — In rather elevated bushy situations from Dalatanda 

 towards the confines of the district of Ambaca, at about 2000 ft. alt., 

 sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1855. No. 1121. 



PuNGo Andongo. — A twining scandent shrub, 3 to 5 ft. long, 

 resembling a jessamine in its habit and flowers ; stems numerous 

 from the crown of the root, sometimes standing erect but mostly 

 climbing as well as the branches ; branchlets erect-spreading ; leaves 

 opposite, evergreen, thinly coriaceous, lurid-green ; stipules gradually 

 acuminate from a broad base, rather fleshy ; flowers pentamerous, 

 handsome, shining with a golden hue ; calyx-teeth all equal, lanceolate, 

 subulate or acute, persistent, crowning the fruit ; corolla golden-yellow, 

 shining ; lobes obovate ; tube cylindrical, double as long as the lobes, 

 densely pilose inside on the upper part, rather naked towards the base : 

 throat tawny-bearded ; style reaching the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 stigma bilobed, the lobes obovate-oblong, somewhat flattened ; fruit 

 baccate. In wooded moist sandy secondary thickets between Luxillo 

 and Cazella : fl. 6 Jan. 1857. No. 1120- In wooded thickets near the 

 cataract of Condo, sporadic and rather rare ; fl. and young fr. March 

 1857. No. 1120&. 



3. M. tenuiflora Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 392 (1849); 

 Hiern, I.e., p. 69. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A very elegant shrub, scandent, with long sarmen- 

 tose branches ; bark fuscous- whitish ; branches and branchlets flexuous- 

 tortuous ; leaves more or less cuspidate at the apex, shortly attenuate 

 or rounded at the base ; calyx green, the enlarged lobe foliaceous, 

 white, soon turning a whitish-sulphur colour ; corolla-tube yellow- 

 greenish ; the limb especially inside coloured brilliant-orange, sub- 

 velutinous ; the throat shaggy and closed with long golden-coloured 

 hairs. In primitive forests among the mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, sporadic ; fl. end of Dec. 1855; f r. April and June 185G. No. 1117. 



Our specimens differ from the type by a less hispid exterior of the 

 corolla-tube, by subglabrate fruit, etc. 



4. M. erythrophylla Schum. & Thonn.in Dansk. Yidensk. Selsk. 

 iii. p. 136 (1828) ; Hiern, I.e. ; Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 198 (1884). 



J/, splendida Welw. m Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 36, t. 13 (1869). 



