468 LXix. RUBIACE.E. [Triccdysiu 



corolla- throat densely bearded ; anthers exserted ; connective pro- 

 duced at the apex with a subulate appendage ; style level with the 

 anthers ; stigma deeply bilobed. Gabriel's coffee tree. No. 3118. 

 An evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches straight, spreading, 

 decussate, with a whitish bark ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, 

 paler beneath : flowers white, fragrant : corolla contorted in aestivation. 

 In hilly bushy rocky places at the back of Alto das Cruzes ; fl. Feb. 

 1854 : unripe fr. April 1854. No. 3119. A shrub of 5 to 7 ft., 

 evergreen, forming the densest thickets ; branches decussate, whitish ; 

 stipules acuminate : leaves coriaceous, rather glossy, from pale 

 yellowish to greenish and paler beneath ; fruit as large as a small 

 pea or a peppercorn, greenish purple when unripe, crowned with the 

 remains of the calyx-limb. In hilly, sandy and rocky places, not far 

 from Quicuxe, abundant : unripe fr. May 1854. No. 3120. A shrub ; 

 stems csespitose, erect, 4 to 6 ft. high, patently branched ; leaves 

 evergreen ; berries clustered, as large as a small pea, at first green, 

 soon turning to bluish-green, at length black, 2-celled ; seeds 2 or 3 

 or rarely 4 in each cell, or very rarely solitary in one of the cells. 

 On bushy plains near Quicuxe ; fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 3121. A shrub, 

 4 to 5 feet high ; branches whitish ; leaves evergreen : fruit baccate, 

 black, pruinose. In thickets between Quicuxe and MutoUo, sporadic ; 

 seeds July 1854. Probably this species. Coll. Carp. 134. 



3. T. glabra K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 445 (1896). 

 PuxGO Andongo. — A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 6 in. in 



diameter at the base, unbranched to the height of 5 ft., then with 

 spreading branches and nodding branchlets ; flowers white : corolla 

 densely bearded at the throat : anthers produced at the apex of the 

 connective into an apiculus ; style filiform, gradually thickened 

 upwards, obsoletely bilobed, the lobes stigmatose. In deep, shaded, 

 wooded valleys amongst the gigantic rocks of the prgesidium at Catete, 

 sporadic ; fl. Nov. 1856, No. 3117- 



The above No. is the type of the species ; the two following 

 Nos. appear also to belong to the species : — 



PuNGo Andongo. — A graceful and ornamental tree, 6 to 8 ft. high, 

 much branched ; branches spreading ; leaves coriaceous, shining, very 

 bright green ; unripe fruit green, 3- or 2-celled, crowned with the 

 calyx-limb, bracteate at the base. In elevated rocky parts of the 

 pnesidium, in Pedra de Cabondo : young fr. end of April 1857. No. 

 3091. A tree of 5i ft., with the habit of the genus or of a tangerine 

 orange tree ; head sparse : leaves bright-green, persistent, pallid beneath ; 

 unripe fruit greenish. Near the top of Pech-a de Cabondo in rocky 

 situations within the prcesidium ; only one branch seen in fr. April 

 1857. No. 3129. 



4. T. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust shrub, with the habit of a Coffea ; branches divaricate, 

 sub-terete, glabrate, dark-ashy ; branchlets .scandent or pendulous- 

 nodding, often alternate, leafy and densely be.set towards the 

 extremities with whitish rigid short hairs, somewhat angular ; 

 leaves elliptical, more or less narrowed at each end, firmly 

 papery, glabrous except the principal veins and ciliolate margin, 

 green above, rather paler beneath, flat, 2| to 4 in. long by Ij to 

 V- in. broad ; lateral veins 4 or .5 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender; petiole hairy, i to | in. long; stipules entire, ovate. 



