Fadogia] lxix. RUBiACEiE. 481 



naming of the species ; Hochstetter's plant appears to me lather 

 to belong to Citmera. 



1. F. Cienkowskii Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. p. 47, t. 32 (1868) ; 

 Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 154. 



GoLTJNCrO Alto. — A suffruticose herb, with the habit of a Li/d- 

 maehia ; rootstock woody, very hard, horizontal, occasionally tuberous- 

 swelled ; stems several, cylindrical at the base, 3- to 4-angular above, 

 in the living state more or less glaucous-green, turning hoary in the 

 dried state, 1 to 2 ft. high ; leaves opposite or ternate or rarely 

 quaternate, membranous, dry, rather rigid ; flowers from whitish to 

 greenish ; calyx usually 6-toothed, greenish ; corolla rather fleshy 

 throughout, yellow, the limb 4- or 5-, rarely 7-cleft, the lobes reflexed 

 at the time of flowering ; stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and 

 alternating with them, reflexed in flower ; anthers reddish ; style 

 straight, sub-angular, surrounded at the base by the thick rather 

 broad disk : stigma capitate, with 3 or 4 thick erect ovate obtuse 

 lobes, giving the whole style the appearance of a minute tulip with its 

 scape. In dry elevated sandy-rocky but earthy pastures submitted to 

 annual burnings for the purposes of cultivation, abundant, but only 

 seen near Banza in Sobato Bumba ; fl. middle of Oct. 1855 ; fr. March 

 1856. No. 2566. In rocky-sandy pastures among short herbage 

 between Bumba and Banga Aquitamba ; fr. March 1856. No. 2577- 

 Habit precisely that of a Lysimachia ; flowers yellow ; berries pulpy, 

 black. In Sobato de Bumba ; fr. Oct. 1855. Coll. Carp. 644. 



PuNGO Andon(;o. — On the grassy slopes of Pedras de Guinga, 

 sparingly ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 2578. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, with a woody rootstock, and several stems a foot 

 high or rather more ; leaves beneath with a thick midrib and raised 

 reticulation ; flowers white or whitish ; fruit agreeably acid-sweet. 

 In wooded meadows between Eme and the great lake of Ivantala ; 

 fl. and ripe fr. beginning of March 1860. This includes a form with 

 narrower lanceolate-oblong leaves. No. 2565. In the lower rocky 

 thickets between Mumpulla and Humpata, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 25776. An undershrub, Ih to 2 ft. high, with the habit of a 

 Lysimachia ; stems numerous ; leaves 4-verticillate ; flowers clustered 

 in the axils, yellowish, pentamerous or hexamerous ; berries black- 

 bluish, as large as a good-sized pea, sub-globose, like a whortleberry in 

 taste and shape but a little larger, sweet-acidulous, edible, with 2 to 

 4 renif orm seeds. In the interior brought to the markets by the negroes 

 in December and January and sold for ardent liquors or gunpowder. 

 Native name "Muninghi" (Muningui?) plural ; sing. "Ninghi." At 

 LopoUo ; fr. Dec. 1859 and April 1860. Coll. Carp. 33. 



2. F. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A little shrub, 4 to 8 in. high, glabrous or very nearly so, not 

 spiny ; primary stem decumbent-ascending, sub-terete, dark-ashy, 

 densely branched apparently after the burning of the upper part 

 of the plant ; branches angular and often trigonous above, densely 

 leafy towards the extremities ; leaves mostly ternate, oblanceolate, 

 rounded sub-apiculate or somewhat acuminate at the apex, 

 gradually wedge-shaped towards the subsessile base, firmly and 

 rigidly sub-coriaceous, green on both faces, very slightly paler 

 and obsoletely scaly beneath, 1 to 5 in. long by i to 1 in. broad, 

 sub-erect or making a small angle with the branch ; lateral veins 



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