Tricalysia] lxix. rubiace^. 471 



HuiLLA. — la rocky thickets about Lopollo and in elevated places 

 in Morro de Lopollo, at an altitude of 5000 to 5500 ft., everywhere ; 

 fl. Nov. 1859 ; nearly ripe fr. end of March 1860. No. 3122. On 

 declivities from Lopollo towards Humpata, sporadic ; rather young fr. 

 beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 3123. 



Nearly related to T. djicrensis Schweinf., but differs by the 

 wedge-shaped base of the leaves, etc. 



26. CREMASPORA Benth.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 108. 



1. C. africana Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 412 (1849); Hiern 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 126. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A slender climber shrub, with obovoid- ellipsoidal 

 drupes. At the banks of the river Lombe ; fr. 9 March 1857. 

 No. 3110. 



27. POLYSPH^RIA Hook.f.; Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. PL ii. p. 127. 

 1. P. neriifolia K. Schum. in Engl. Ost-Afrik. C, p. 383 (1895). 



Var. subnutans Hiern. 



A slender glabrous tree, 7 to 10 ft. high, with the habit of a 

 Coffea ; bi^anches spreading ; bark pallid ; branchlets somewhat 

 drooping, deep-green ; leaves lanceolate -oblong, shortly or scarcely 

 glossy, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or unequally narrowed at 

 the base, thinly coriaceous, 4 to 7 in. long by 1 to If in. broad ; 

 lateral veins patent, slender, numerous, inconspicuous ; margin 

 often wavy ; stipules supra-axillary, ovate, apiculate, deciduous ; 

 fruits (vmripe) globose, green, \ in. in diameter, subsessile, 

 clustered a few together in the upper axils, crowned at the apex 

 with the shortly hairy remains of the quadridentate calyx -limb, 

 bracteolate at the base ; bracteoles small, stipuliform. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the shadiest parts of the Calemba Islands 

 in the river Cuanza ; young fr. 11 March 1857. No. 3111. 



28. PENTANISIA Harv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 104. 



1. P. cserulea Hiern, sp. n. 



A perennial herb, glossy, glabrous, bright herbaceous-green, 

 with the habit of a Thymus, scarcely a foot high ; rootstock 

 woody ; stems numerous, erect, gradually more branched in the 

 upper part, cylindrical at the base, flattened-angular or com- 

 pressed above, yellowish-green, turning reddish in the dried state ; 

 leaves sub-linear or linear-oval, apiculate at the apex, narrowed 

 towards the se.ssile or subsessile base, opposite, herbaceovis, | to 

 1| in. long by y!jj to I in. broad, uninerved or with a few incon- 

 spicuous lateral veins ; stipules from a short broad base adnate to 

 the petiole or leaf -base with two or three lanceolate or subulate 

 tips ; flowers about j in. long, sessile, in dense terminal very 

 abbreviated sub-capitate cymes ; calyx-limb 5-clef t, three of the 

 teeth small subulate, the two others foliaceous much larger 

 similar to the leaves ; corolla salver-shaped, the tube very slender 

 throughout, about | in. long, violet-coloured ; the limb 5-partite ; 

 segments spreading in full flower, valvate in the bud, about |- in. 



