Canthium] lxix. rubiace.e. 475 



of Medusa, 1 to 2 in. in diameter ; calyx turbinate and adnate 

 below to the ovary, glabrous except the ciliolate short truncate or 

 obscurely dentate limb ; corolla from whitish to sulphur-coloured; 

 the tube campanulate, glabrous outside, ^ in. long or a little 

 longer ; throat bearded ; lobes 5, ovate, obtusely pointed, glabrous 

 on both faces, about as long as the tube, valvate in the bud, 

 reflexed in full flower ; stamens 5, shortly exserted, glabrous ; 

 anthers oblong ; disk glabrous or minutely puberulous ; ovary 

 glabrous, 2 -celled; ovules solitary, pendulous; style glabrous, far 

 exserted ; stigma shortly calyptriform ; fruit subglobose, glabrous, 

 i to f in. in diameter, and sometimes longitudinally furrowed 

 on opposite sides, green, marked at the apex with the remains of 

 the calyx-limb, 2-celled ; seeds cinnamon-red, didymous or solitary, 

 GOLUNGO Alto. — By thickets along the margins of primitive forests 

 near Cambondo and Trombeta ; fl. Dec. 1855 and Jan. 1856, No. 3150. 

 Cambondo ; fr. 1 July 1856. According to Senhor Lima of Dalatando 

 called " Quicange-quiangilla." No. 3151. Cambondo ; very young fr. 

 Feb. 1855. No. 3152. A subarborescent shrub, with a coffee-like 

 habit, the sarmentose branches elongated, sometimes nodding or almost 

 scandent ; drupaceous fruit greenish ; seeds cinnamon-coloured. 

 Cambondo; fr. beginning of July 1856. Native name '' Qui^-anga 

 Quiangilla." Coll. Carp. 646. 



7. C. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A considerable tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with a broadly spreading 

 more or less pyramidal head ; trunk straight, obtusely more or less 

 tetragonal, 12 to 15 in. in diameter, never spiny; wood white, 

 hard ; branches and branchlets patent, tetragonal, glabrous or 

 glabrescent ; branchlets bisulcate, green ; leaves opposite, usually 

 oblong or oval-oblong, obtusely acuminate or cuspidate at the 

 apex, obtuse rounded or more or less deeply cordate at the base, 

 chartaceous-coriaceous, rather flaccid, glabrescent, shining above, 

 palHd bright-green without gloss not at all reddish (as at length 

 they become in the dried state) beneath, devoui^ed with gi-eat 

 avidity by insects, very large, often a foot and a half in length ; 

 lateral veins 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, depre.ssed above, 

 in clear relief beneath ; petiole short, ranging up to | in. long ; 

 stipules broadly ovate, obtuse, ranging up to Ig in, long, deciduous, 

 glabrescent and glossy at the back ; flowers whitish -yellowish or 

 of a pale-sulphur colour, ^ in. long before expansion, about i in. 

 long when expanded exclusive of the exserted style, pentamerous, 

 glabrous outside, on puberulous or subglabrous pedicels of -^-^ to 

 ^ in., arranged in compound axillary cymes 2 to 3 in. in diameter ; 

 common peduncle glabrous, 4 to 1 in. long, repeatedly dichotomous, 

 compressed or almost 2-edged, somewhat deflexed ; bracteoles 

 successively smaller, the smallest ciliolate shortly hairy inside ; 

 calyx shortly campanulate, a little compressed at the base, 

 occasionally bi-gibbous, the Limb short and shoitly dentate, 

 minutely or obsoletely ciliolate; corolla-tube g in. long, densely 

 hairy inside ; the throat bearded ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 ^ in, long, faintly tomentellous inside, valvate in aestivation, 



