Tricalysici] LXix. rubiace.«. 467 



25. TRICALYSIA A. Kich. ; Benth. t Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 95. 

 Kraussia llarv. ; Benth. & Hook, f., Z.c, p. 95. Diplocrater 

 Hook. f. ; Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 96. 



1. T. cacondensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A dwarf much -branched tree or shrub, from about 6 in. high 

 upwards ; branches glabrescent, palKd or ashy, sub-terete ; 

 branchlets somewhat quadrangular, puberulous at the extremities, 

 leafy ; leaves narrowly elliptical obovate or oblanceolate, obtusely 

 narrowed, rounded or scarcely apiculate at the apex, yellowish- 

 green, wedge-shaped at the sub.sessile base, rigidly coriaceous, 

 glabrescent, 1 to 3 in. long by i to 1 in. broad ; margin narrowly 

 revolute ; lateral veins 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, not 

 conspicuous, reticulate ; stipules from a short broad connate base 

 subulate-acuminate, g to | in. long, puberulous at first, gla- 

 brescent ; flowers nearly ^ in. long before expansion, about j in. 

 long when expanded, subsessile, several together in opposite much 

 abbreviated axillary little cymes, bracteolate, pentamerous ; 

 bracteoles broad or calyculate, rounded-apiculate or truncate, 

 puberulous, ciliolate, falling short of the calyx ; calyx (including 

 the ovary), g in. long, green, the limb y^ in. long, deeply divided ; 

 segments ovate, rounded at the apex, glabrous everywhere except 

 the ciliolate margins ; corolla wdiite, glabrous outside, the tube 

 ^ in. long, tubular funnel-shaped, pilose inside on the upper 

 half up to the throat ; lobes -^ in. long, glabrous on both sides 

 except inside near the base, ciliolate about the apex, oval, rounded 

 at the apex, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from above) in 

 aestivation, spreading in full flower ; anthers 5, glabrous, exserted, 

 dorsifixed, lanceolate-linear, appendaged at the apex, ^ in. long ; 

 filaments glabrous, flattened, —^ in. long, inserted just below the 

 base of the corolla-lobes and alternating with them ; disk annular- 

 cupular, fleshy ; ovary glabrous, campanulate, somewhat com- 

 pressed, narrower than the calyx-limb, 2-celled ; style yg- in. long, 

 glabrous, cleft at the apex ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell ; 

 placentas fleshy ; fruit i-ed, subglobose or elHpsoidal, :^ to j in. 

 long, glabrous, somewhat ribbed vertically, 2-celled, tipped with 

 the persistent calyx-limb, bracteolate at the base. 



HuiLLA. — A dwarf tree ; anthers with a long subulate apiculus. By 

 the road to Quipaca, past the fortress near Ferrao ; fl. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 3112. In bushy pastures on the right bank of the river of 

 LopoUo, among shrubby Mimosas ; young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3113- 

 In thickets on the right bank of the river of Lopollo ; fr. end of 

 March 1860. The specimens afford evidence of the fruiting branches 

 , being shoots spi-ung up from the burnt stems of a previous season. 

 No. 3114. 



The same species was collected at Caconda in Nov. 1877 in fl. by 

 Anchieta, n. 109, and at the same place in Jan. 1878 in fr. by Capello 

 and Ivens, n. 16; it is there called by the natives " Onjamba " 

 or " Ojamba.'' 



2. T. buxifolia Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 119. 

 LoANDA. — A shrub with the habit of the genus ; flowers white, 



strictly pentamerous ; calyx-limb rather loose, with obtuse lobes ; 



