480 Lxix. RUBIACE.E. [Ccinthium 



many-flowered, about 1 in. in diameter, tomentose ; flowers 

 pentamerous ; calyx-limb deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes ovate or 

 lanceolate, tomentose on both faces, about ^ in. long after the 

 fall of the corolla ; disk fleshy, glabrous ; ovary tomentose, cam- 

 panulate, 2-celled, very fleshy ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; young 

 fruit obliquely ellipsoidal, sub-glabrate, about 1 in. long, apparently 

 1 -seeded, solitary. 



HuiLLA. — In the open forests of Monino, sporadic : after the fall 

 of the corolla and in young fr., Dec. 1859. No. 2583- 



30. VANGUERIA A. L. Juss. Gen. PI. p. 206 (1789); Benth. 

 &Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 111. 



1. V. infausta Burch. Trav. ii. p. 258, note, and p. 259, fig. 

 (1824) ; liiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 147. 



HuiLLA. — A bush, 10 to 15 ft. high, decussately branched ; leaves 

 ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, deciduous ; flowers from greenish 

 to yellowish ; unripe fruit greenish-purplish with a yellowish tinge, as 

 large as a small hazel-nut. In wooded rocky rather elevated situations 

 near Lopollo ; fl. 15 Dec. 1859 ; fr. 15 Jan. 1860. No. 5351. 



2. V. canthioides Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 408 (1849); 

 Hiern, ^.c, p. 149. 



GoLUNCo Alto. — A bush, 3 to 10 ft. high, sometimes arborescent : 

 the central stem after the fall of the leaves showing from the petioles 

 of the leaves ternate spines which are altogether absent from the 

 circumferential branches ; young leaves membranous, the older ones 

 chartaceous-rigid, early deciduous : flowers greenish ; calyx cam- 

 panulate, with 5 acute short distant teeth : corolla salver-shaped, the 

 tube equalling in length the five segments of the limb which are 

 reflexed at the time of fuU flower : stamens 5, inserted on the 

 bearded throat of the corolla ; anthers ovate-acuminate, brick-red, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally : disk annular, thick ; ovary covered 

 by the calyx, 5-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; style central, rather 

 thick, a little curved below the apex : stigma large, pileiform, green, 

 obtusely lobed at the apex ; young berries green, pentagonal. In 

 shady forests at the base of the mountains of Queta, near Camilungo, 

 rather rare : fr. June 1855. At the great waterfall of the river 

 Cuango : fl. Sept. 1854 ; fl.-bud 11 Oct. 1855 ; fl. May 185(;. No. 6347. 



3. V. umbellulata Hiern, I.e., p. 150. 



PuNtio Andongo. — A shrub, almost arborescent, with sub-scandent 

 branches. In wooded parts of Pedras de Guinga ; after the fall of 

 the corolla and in fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5348. A bush, 10 to 12 ft. high ; 

 branches spreading ; branchlets pendulous-nodding ; young fruit green, 

 sub-globose. In the primitive forests of the Calemba Island ; young 

 fr. 12 March 1857. No. 5349- 



In the absence of the flowers from the specimens, these deter- 

 minations are doubtful; they must be compared, especially the 

 latter No., with V. euonymoides Schweinf. 



31. FADOGIA Schweinf.; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. Ill, 

 excl. syn. 



Pachystiyma Hochst. (1842) has been united with this genus by 

 K. Schumann, and being older has been adopted by him in the 



