470 LXix. RUBiACEiE. \Tricalysia 



PuNGO Andongo. — A graceful tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; branches 

 erect-spreading ; leaves coriaceous, glossy ; stipules interpetiolar, 

 with a broad base and long acumen at the apex ; fruit bright scarlet, 

 ovoid globose, but little fleshy, crowned at the apex with the hardened 

 calyx-limb, based with the calyculus, 2-seeded : seeds ovate-orbicular, 

 convex on one side, on the other slightly concave, the margin on one 

 or both sides involute after the fashion of cofifee seeds. In deep shady 

 bushy valleys within the prsesidium ; sporadic ; ripe fr. middle of Jan. 

 1857. No. 3125. In bushy rather shady places at the sides of the 

 gigantic rocks of the pra;sidium ; fr. and fl.-bud Jan. 1857. No. 3126^. 

 A tree 5 to 7 ft. high ; trunk slender, erect ; head pyramidal ; branches 

 spreading ; bark of the trunk and branches whitish ; leaves coriaceous ; 

 fruit scarlet, at the base of the gigantic rocks of the prpesidium, on the 

 western side ; fl.-bud beginning of Jan. 1857. No. 3126. A tree, 

 7 to 9 ft. high ; trunk straight ; head obtusely pyramidal ; bark 

 whitish ; leaves thinly coriaceous, evergreen, rather glossy. At the 

 bottom of the gigantic rocks of the presidium, sporadic ; young fi'uit 

 beginning of Dec. 1856. No. 3127. 



7. T. benguellensis Welw. m.s. in Herb. 



An ornamental shrub, 2 to 6 ft. high, erect ; branches and 

 branchlets patent, decus.sate, leafy, glabrescent, towards the ex- 

 tremities reddish and puberulous ; bark ashy ; leaves oblanceolate 

 or obovate-oblong, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, glabrate or pubei'ulous beneath, deep- 

 green above, paler beneath, coriaceous, 1 to 2 in. long by | to 4 in. 

 broad ; mai-gins sub-recurved ; lateral veins few, inconspicuous, 

 .sometimes with tufts of short hairs in the angles where they start 

 from the midrib ; petiole very short or obsolete, often hairy ; 

 stipules entire from a short ovate or truncate connate base 

 subulate, y^^ to g in. long ; flowers whitish, about \ in. long when 

 expanded, clu.stered about three together in very abbreviated 

 opposite axillai-y approximated cymes, subsessile, bracteolate at the 

 base ; bracteoles calyculate, beset Avith short rigid whitish hairs, 

 falling short of the calyx ; calyx small, campanulate, somewhat 

 compressed, including the ovaiy —^ in. long, persistent, the limb 

 y ^ in. long, cupshaped, haiiy on both faces, truncate, 6-toothed at 

 the apex ; corolla salver-shaped, the tube narrower than the 

 calyx-limb, glabi-ous both inside and out, i in. long ; throat 

 glabrous ; limb 6-partite, the segments \ in. long, oblanceolate- 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, not much narrowed towards the 

 base, hairy outside, glabrous inside, spreading in full flower ; 

 .stamens 6, exserted, glabrous ; filaments lanceolate-linear, 

 flattened, y\ in. long, inserted at the base between the corolla - 

 lobes ; anthers linear, § in. long, dorsifixed at the middle ; disk 

 fleshy, glabrous, short, annular-cup-shaped ; style \ in. long, erect, 

 straight, slender, glabrous, bifid abovit a quarter way down ; 

 ovary 2-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; berry pea-shaped, 5 to \ in. in 

 diameter, scarlet, glabrous, crowned with the hairy urceolate 

 calyx-limb, 2-seeded or rarely by abortion 1-seeded. 



Bumbo. — A shrub with white flowers. In wooded parts of Serra da 

 XeLla ; fl. with scarcely any leaves, Oct. 1859. Apparently this species. 

 No. 3124. 



