Dictycmdra] LXix. rubiace^e. 457 



white obtusely 5-lobed elevated cup-shaped disk ; stamens 5, inserted 

 at the corolla-throat, exserted ; filaments obsolete ; anthers sessile, 

 lanceolate-linear or ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed, acuminate at 

 the apex, several-celled ; the cells 40 to 50, arranged in four rows 

 along the whole internal face of the anther ; ovary covered by the 

 calyx, 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell : style thick, cylin- 

 drical, narrowed at both ends, left far exserted by the turning back of 

 the corolla-limb, densely white-pilose except the base, deeply bifid at 

 the apex, with subulate lobes. In elevated forests and wooded slopes 

 among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta : fl.-bud June and 

 beginning of Aug. 1855 ; fl. Nov. 10th, 1855 ; in Mata de Quisucula, 

 ripe fr. end of April 1866. Native name " Mungolo oamxi."' No. 2561. 

 A moderate-sized tree with evergreen leaves. Virgin forest of Qui- 

 sucula ; fr. April 1856. Coll. Carp. 640. A tree, 25 to 35 ft. high ; 

 trunk 8 to 12 in. in diameter ; structure of the anthers remarkable, 

 honeycombed ; berries resembling in shape the fruit of Psidium. 

 Among the mountains of Central Queta. Coll. Carp. 641 and 641 &. 



17. TARENNA Gaertn. Fruct. i. p. 139, t. 28, f. 3 (1788). 

 Webera Schreb. (1791) ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 86. 



Chomelia L. Gen. PI. edit. 1, p. 55 (1737), non Jacq. (1760). 



1. T. congensis Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 91. 



Chomelia congensis 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI, i. p. 278 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A copiously leafy tree of moderate size, with 

 very patent almost horizontal branches ; calyx 5-toothed ; berries 

 purplish, rather dry, 2-celled, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes ; 

 the cells with about six or seven peltate seeds. In elevated forests, 

 2800 ft. alt. on Mount Cungulungulo ; fr. Feb. 1855. No. 2575. 



18. RANDIA Houst. ex L. ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii, p. 88, 

 1, R, lucidula Hiern, sp, n. 



A bush 6 to 8 ft. high, or a small tree with spreading elongated 

 and often sub-sarmentose nodding branches, glabrous and rather 

 glossy in most parts ; leaves opposite, oval or oblong, acviminate 

 at the apex, obtuse or sub-cuneate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 

 2 to 7 in. long by 1 to 2| in. broad, pallid at least beneath ; 

 lateral veins slender, about five to seven on each side of the 

 midrib ; petiole |- to 5 in. long ; stipules lanceolate or ovate, 

 tapering into a subulate apex, about as long as the petiole, 

 deciduous ; flowers about | in. long just before expansion, penta- 

 merous, on pedicels of g to j in. long, arranged in many-flowered 

 axillary bracteolate cymes about an inch in diameter ; bracteoles 

 ovate or lanceolate, ciliolate, small, deciduous; calyx-limb cup- 

 shaped, nearly glabrous, ^ in. long, broader than the ovary, 

 truncate with five minute ciliolate teeth ; corolla whitish, 5-cleft ; 

 the lobes more or less clothed outside with a pale, very closely 

 adpressed felt, spreading or reflexed in flower, glabrous or nearly 

 so inside, | in. long, ovate, obtuse contorted in the bud ; throat 

 naked, or nearly so ; anthers exserted, linear ; style exserted in 

 consequence of the turning back of the corolla -lobes, clavate 

 above, a little glandular ; fruit globose, 5 to 5 inch in diameter, 

 marked with the scar of the calyx-limb, 2-celled. 



