466 Lxix. RUBiACEiE. \0xyanthu8 



on each side of the midrib, slender ; petiole i to t in. long ; 

 stipules ovate or lanceolate, acute, entire, connate at the base, 

 h to I in. long, pallid, persistent; flowers very slender, 4 to 5 in. 

 long, whitish, several together in comparatively short axillary 

 cymes ; pedicels g to § in. long ; bracts like the stipules but 

 much smaller, deciduous ; bracteoles subulate ; calyx-limb small, 

 shortly cup-shaped with 5 lanceolate or subulate lobes ^^ to ^ in. 

 long; corolla-lobes 5, linear-oblong, f to 1 in. long, spreading; 

 anthers 5, exserted, J^ in. long; ovary 1 -celled; style exceeding 

 the corolla-tube by | to | in., narrowly clavate at the apex ; fruit 

 subglobose, somewhat pyriform, scarcely an inch long, about f in. 

 in transverse diameter, 1-celled; seeds rather numerous, about 

 ^ in. long. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Queta ; fr. July 1855. No. 2582/j. 



PuxGo Andoxgo. — In the wooded parts of Barranco de Songue, 

 rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 2582. 



23. SHERBOURNIA G. Don in Loud. Encycl. PL, Suppl. ii., 

 p. 1323 (1855). 



Amaralia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI, ii. p. 90. 



1. S.foliosaG. Don in Loud. Encycl. PI., Suppl. ii., p. 1322(1855). 



Gardenia bignonieeflora Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 13 (1859). 

 Amaralia hignonicejlora Welw. ex Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 iii. p. 112. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing to a great height ; 

 branches purple ; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, faintly green above, 

 pale-green beneath, narrowed or occasionally cordate at the base : 

 flowers handsome, 2 inches long, fleshy-coriaceous, almost like those of 

 a Bifjnonia in shape, hoary outside when dry, solitary, axillary, some- 

 what nodding ; peduncle short ; calyx f oliaceous, lax, purplish ; corolla 

 rose-violet, purple inside, silky-shining outside, turning ashy in drying, 

 the tube cylindrical at the base, widening shortly above the base, 

 almost an inch in diameter, the limb 5-lobed, lobes broad, rounded- 

 obtuse, spreading and then turned l)ack ; stamens 5 ; fruit (not quite 

 ripe) ovoid-oblong, green, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb : 

 cells many-seeded. In the dense primitive forests of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, sporadic ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1854. No. 2571- 



PuNc;o Andongo. — A shrub or small tree with elongated, sub- 

 sarmentose branches, and broad opposite leaves ; flowers rather large, 

 orange-coloured variegated with dark purple ; corolla thickly coriaceous. 

 In bushy wooded parts of the district ; seeds, 1856 and 1857. Coll. 

 Cakp. 642. 



According to Welwitscb, Apont., I.e., the fruit is 1-celled, elongate- 

 ellipsoidal, 1 to 1| in. in diameter, 3 to 3| in, long. 



24. POUCHETIA A. Rich. ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, PI. ii. p. 92, 



1, P. africana DC. Prodr. iv. p. 393 (1830) ; Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop, Afr. iii. p. 117. 



Pkince's Island. — In bushy places along a stream by the lower 

 slopes of Pico de Papagaio ; fr. Sept. 1853. No. 1251. 



