Oardenia] lxix. rubiace.e, 463 



GOLUNGO Alto. — In the primitive forests of Quibanga, rather 

 rare ; fl. beginning of July 1856. No. 3098. In the more elevated 

 dense primitive forests of Mussengue, rare ; fr. not yet ripe, middle of 

 Dec. 1855. No. 3099. 



Cazengo. — In the elevated primitive forests of Machahula 

 (Muxaiilo), at 2000 to 2500 ft. alt., sporadic in company with Cofea 

 <irabica L. ; unripe fr. Jan. 1855. No. 3100. 



Nearly related to G. iii-cell/formis Hiem, of which the corolla is 

 unknown ; the calyx, however, somewhat differs. 



20. MACROSPHYRA Hook. f. inBenth. & Hook. f. Gen. ii. p. 86. 



1. M. brachystylis Hiern, sp. n. 



A stout scabrid shrub, or occasionally a small tree 5 to 8 ft. 

 high with a slender trunk and spreading branches, the vipper 

 branches showing a scandent tendency, elongated, sarmentose; 

 both the leafy and the flowering branchlets developed from 

 very viscid coriaceous-scalelike imbricate buds ; leaves opposite, 

 ■crowded at the extremities of the branchlets, more or less oval, 

 shortly pointed at the apex, usually obtuse at the unequal base, 

 membi-anous bvit juicy, rough to the touch on both faces, dull- 

 green above, rather paler or browner beneath, 3 to 9 in. long by 1| 

 to 6 in. broad; lateral veins spreading, 9 to 12 on each side of 

 the midrib, rather slender ; petiole long, ranging up to 3 in., 

 scabrid; stipules ovate, entire : flowers 1| to 2| in. long, hand- 

 some, resembling those of a Bignonia, fasciculate on short 

 peduncles at the tips of the branchlets ; calyx-limb rather fleshy 

 or membranous, campanulate, 5-cleft, glabrous below ; lobes ovate 

 or lanceolate, sub-equal, ciliolate ; corolla ^ to 2 in. long, funnel- 

 shaped, fleshy, thickly coriaceous, fragile, sordid-purple or inside 

 from orange to blood-red and striate-spotted, 5-fid, glabrous or 

 nearly so ; lobes oval, rounded at the apex, recurved or spreading ; 

 anthers 5, linear, included, ^ in. long, inserted a little below the 

 throat of the corolla, sessile or subsessile, glabrous ; style glabrous 

 or nearly so, 1 in. long, included, terminating in the subglobose 

 bilobed stigma, ^ in. in diameter ; ovary 1 -celled ; fruit ellipsoidal- 

 oblong, glabrous, 3 in. long, li in. in diameter, 1 -celled, crowned 

 with the remains of the calyx-limb ; seeds numerous, embedded 

 in adhesive pulp; pericarp thin, coriaceous; placentas ap- 

 parently 4. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In dense forests near N-delle ; abortive fl. Feb. 

 1856. No. 3101. In secondary woods by the river Delamboa ; few 

 fl. Dec. 1854. The same little tree was subsequently visited at various 

 times and seasons, but not again found in flower. No. 3102. 



Ambaca. — In thickets near streams between Izanga and N-gombe, 

 rather rare ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 3104. 



PuNGO Andongo. — By rocky thickets within the prsesidium, rather 

 rare ; fr. Oct. 1856. No 3103. 



The inclusion of this species enlarges the generic character in 

 consequence of the short style ; the stigma, hoAvever, in shape 

 agi'ees with Maa'osjyhyra rather than its next ally Gardenia. The 

 two following Nos., not represented by flowers or fruits, perhaps 

 belong to this species : — 



