482 LXix. RUBiACE.E. [Faclocfia 



4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, shghtly reddish (as well as the 

 net-veins) but scarcely conspicuous ; stipules ovate or lanceolate, 

 i to I in. long, entire, deciduous ; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 

 puberulous or glabrate, about 1 in. in diameter ; common peduncle 

 \ to !V in. long ; pedicels ranging up to i in. long ; bracteoles 

 lanceolate, small ; calyx i to i in. long, the limb 5-partite ; 

 segments lanceolate-oblong, apiculate, somewhat unequal, -^^ to Jrr 

 in. long, glabrate or obsoletely puberulous, persistent ; disk 

 glabrous or obsoletely scaly ; ovary shortly campanulate, slightly 

 compressed, glabrous, fleshy, 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; ovules 

 pendulous ; young fruit sub-globose, somewhat compressed, about 

 \ in. in diameter, umbilicate at the apex and crowned with the 

 persistent not accrescent calyx-lobes. 



HuiLLA. — In bushy pastures on the left bank of the river of 

 LopoUo, sporadic ; after the fall of the corolla and in young fr. Jan. 

 1860. No. 2584. 



3. F. fuchsioides Welw. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 85, 

 t. 50 (1873) ; Hiern, I.e., p. 155. 



PuN(;o Andonho. — Berries reddish. In Mata de Mangue ; ripe fr. 

 Jan. 1857. Only one specimen found, No. 2567''- A herb almost 

 suffrutescent or an undershrub, a foot high ; rootstock thick, fleshy- 

 woody ; stems few, erect ; leaves thick, fleshy with the nerves purple 

 beneath ; flowers wine-purple, afterwards turning red, rather fleshy, 

 green-yelloAvish inside, with reflexed limb ; stigma remarkable, as in 

 the genus ; fruit red. In the sandy forests of Cazella, on the left 

 bank of the river Lutete near the confines of the district of Ambaca, 

 very rare, in company with a dwarf Meliacea [Nelanoregain alata 

 0. Kuntze, Welw. No. 1301) and Sexamum angoletise'Wel'w. No. 1645 ; fl. 

 18 Oct. 1856. No. 2568- In sandy forests at Luxillo, sparingly : fr. 

 Feb. 1857. A form with small fruit i to ^ in. in diameter ; leaves 

 opposite or ternate, marked with red veins. No. 2568/>. 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub or shrubliy herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, 

 caespitose or at least with several stems ; rootstock thick, hard-woody, 

 horizontal or obliquely descending ; stems strict, scarcely woody, 

 purplish or reddish, cylindrical below, obtusely trigonous from the 

 middle to the apex, verticillately leafy ; leaves mostly ternately or 

 quaternately or rarely 5 — 6-verticillate, softly coriaceous, lanceolate- 

 ovate or elliptical, entire, glabrous or more or less shaggy ; petiole 

 short, articulate with the stem ; stipules interpetiolar, entire ; peduncles 

 axUlary, typically ternate-verticillate and 3-flowered, blood-red; pedicels 

 as long as the common peduncle or shorter ; flowers handsome ; calyx 

 blood-red ; the tube obconical, adnate to the ovary ; the limb superior, 

 patellifovm, truncate ; corolla coriaceous or fleshy-membranous, blood- 

 red, like that of a fuchsia ; the tube long, shaggy inside ; the throat 

 naked ; the lobes of the limb 6 to 8, valvate in the bud, arching- 

 reflexed in full flower, yellowish inside ; anthers 6 to 8 corresponding 

 to the number of the corolla-lobes, sessile or subsessile, inserted 

 in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes, linear, exserted, all alike ; 

 ovary inferior, 6 to 8-celled ; the cells one-ovuled ; style simple, 

 conical, surrounded at the base by the epigynous disk, gradually 

 narrowed, exserted ; stigma precisely crown-shaped, broadly truncate 

 both at top and bottom, stigmatose around the circumferential sides, 

 broadly G- to 8-radiate or even somewhat 6- to 8-lobedat the apex and 



