Sabicea] lxix. rubiace^e. 455 



No. 4744. A low suffruticose herb, extensively and intricately 

 climbing ; flowers white. In secondary thickets at the base of the 

 mountains of Queta, at Zengas ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 4745. 



The following No. repi^esented by a specimen without corollas 

 is doubtfully placed here : — 



Sierra Leone. — A widely climbing shrub ; calyx-lobes foliaceous, 

 lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx-tube. In mountainous forests 

 near Freetown : young fr. after the fall of the corolla, Sept. 1853. 

 No. 3085. 



14. HEINSIA DO. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 77. 



1. H. jasminiflora DC. Prodr. iv. p. 390 (1830); Hiern in Oliv. 

 PI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 81. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very much branched shrub ; leaves not 

 coriaceous ; stipules emarginate, with 2 horns ; flowers in small cymes 

 on long peduncles 1, 2, or mostly 3 together, but little fragrant ; calyx- 

 tube obconical, obtusely 5-ribbed, adnate to the ovary ; the limb 

 superior a little longer than the tube, 5-partite ; the segments 

 foliaceous, broadly lanceolate, spreading-erect, scarcely shorter than 

 the exserted corolla-tube, with subulate glands inside at the base ; 

 corolla salver-shaped, brightly white, the limb 5-cleft ; lobes ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, longitudinally pervaded with wavy lines, fringed on 

 the margin, spreading horizontally ; throat closed with rigid yellowish 

 hairs ; stamens 5, attached at the middle of the very hairy corolla- 

 tube ; anthers linear, dorsifixed, 2 -celled, included, densely surrounded 

 with the hairs of the corolla-throat ; ovary 2-celled ; style seated on 

 the elevated disk ; exserted by | in. ; stigma bilobed, occasionally tri- 

 lobed ; lobes foliaceous, oblong ; ovules indefinite. By streams in 

 wooded situations in Sobato de Bumba, along the high road leading to 

 Bango Aquitamba, abundant, fl. 12 Dec. 1854 ; between Bango and 

 Quisucula, nearly ripe fr. May 1856. No. 2562. 



2. H. benguelensis Welw. ex Benth. & Hook, f . , I.e. ; Hiern, ^.c, p. 82. 

 HuiLLA. — An undershrub, 6 in. high ; stems several from a woody 



rootstock, erect decumbent or prostrate-ascending, rigid ; leaves ever- 

 green, lanceolate, shortly petiolate, pubescent on both faces, hirsute 

 along the nerves beneath ; flowers fragrant ; calyx herbaceous-green, 

 closely surrounded at the base with bracts in pairs ; calyx-lobes 

 furnished at the base inside with red subulate glands ; corolla milk- 

 white, pubescent-tomentose outside and chiefly on the tube inside ; 

 anthers included to a great extent but scarcely exserted at the apex, 

 attached about the middle to the very short filaments ; disk with 

 several (8 — 10 ?) ribs and a hairy crown ; ovary 2-celled ; style simple, 

 glabrous below, somewhat hairy from the middle towards the apex ; 

 stigma large, bilobed ; lobes ovate-oblong, rather compressed, densely 

 hairy on the outer face, stigmatose on the inner ; ovules indefinite, 

 densely clustered in a viscid mass. In rocky-sandy thickets between 

 Humpata and Mumpulla, at an elevation of 4200 to 4500 ft., sporadic, 

 in company with species of Thesium, ThymelaeaceaB and Thunbergia 

 angolensis S. Moore ; fl. Oct. and beginning of Nov. 1859. No. 2563. 



3. H. tomentosa Welw. ms. 



An undershrub, softly and loosely tomentose, decumbent-erect 

 from a woody rhizome ; stems simple or sparingly branched at 

 or a little above the base, sub-quadrangular, sub-glabrate and 



