Canthium'] LXix. RUBiACE-ii:. 473 



PuxGO Andongo. — In little woods by streams on the elevated rocks 

 of Tunda Quilombo : after the fall of the corolla and in young fr. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 5350^ 



2. C. virgatum Hiern, sp. n. 



A much branched erect %Ti"gate glossy shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high ; 

 branches subterete, glabrate, whitish ; branchlets somewhat com- 

 pi-essed and shortly hairy towards the extremities, glabrescent, 

 patent, sometimes abbreviated and almost spiniform ; leaves 

 opposite, ovate or oval, obtusely naiTowed or acuminate and sub- 

 apiculate at the apex, obtuse rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 coriaceous, rigid, glabrous, shining and with venation and reticu- 

 lation in relief on both faces, deep-green above, paler-green 

 beneath, 1 to 2 in. long by 4 to 1 in. broad ; lateral veins 3 or 4 

 on each side of the midrib, slender, not conspicuous ; petiole very 

 short ; stipules from a very short broadly ovate or sub-truncate 

 base subulate ; flowers white, white-rosy in bud, greenish in young 

 Inid, fragrant, pentamerous, ^ in. long before expansion, yV in. 

 long when expanded, glabrous outside, on short glabrate pedicels 

 arranged in abbreviated axillai-y cymes ; calyx green ; limb .small, 

 repand-quinquedentate, ciliolate ; corolla deeply 5-clef t ; segments 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, valvate in the bud, reflexed in full flower ; 

 tube short, pilose inside ; throat bearded ; stamens 5, insei-ted in the 

 sinuses between the coi'olla-segments, glabrous, exserted ; anthers 

 lanceolate-oblong ; disk glabrous ; ovary turbinate-campanulate, 

 very small, fleshy, 2-celled : style filiform, exserted, glabrous ; 

 stigma thick, mitriform, truncate and hollowed at the base, deeply 

 bilobed at the apex ; ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. 



LoAXDA. — In dry hilly wooded situations among scattered bushes by 

 roadside near Quicuxe in company with plants of Strychnos, and at 

 Imbondeiro dos Lobos, not uncommon ; fl. 25 March 1858, and fl.-bud 

 May 1854 and 1859. No. 4752. 



3. C. kraussioides Hiern, sp. n. 



A much branched, sarmentose, evei'green, glabrous, glossy 

 shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; branchlets spreading, quadrangular, 

 opposite ; leaves opposite, elliptical or lanceolate, often subacumi- 

 nate, narrowed to an obtuse or apiculate apex, unequally wedge- 

 shaped or obtuse at the base, coriaceous, glossy deep-green and 

 slightly yellowish-green above, paler yellowish-green beneath, 2 

 to 3 in. long by | to 1^ in. broad ; lateral veins 3 to 6 on each 

 side of the midrib, inconspicuous ; margins narrowly revolute ; 

 petioles ^ to ^ in. long ; stipules from a broad ovate connate base 

 subulate, about equalling the petiole ; flowers white, pentamerous, 

 i to y in. long when expanded exclusive of the glabrous exserted 

 style, f to I in. long inclusive of it, numerous, on puberulous 

 pedicels of i to i in. long, arranged in an umbellate or sub-um- 

 bellate manner in subsessile or very shortly pedunculate axillary 

 opposite cymes ^ to 1 in. in diameter ; calyx campanulate, ^^ to 

 y^ in. long, glabrous outside or nearly so ; limb short, quinque- 

 dentate ; teeth small, lanceolate, minutely ciliolate ; corolla-tube 

 sub-glabrous outside, pilose inside, |- to i in. long ; throat bearded ;, 



