484 Lxix. RUBiACEiE. [Cuviera 



corolla-lobes around the ring of hairs ; rigid, exserted ; filaments 

 compressed-cylindrical, fleshy, curved-patent at the time of 

 flowering ; anthers ovate, cordate, introrse, 2-celled, obtuse at the 

 apex, basifixed ; cells separate at the base, cohering at the apex 

 longitudinally, yellow ; ovary adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled; disk a little elevated, flat; style thick, columnar, 

 rosy, densely pilose ; stigma mitriform, large, obtuse, stigmatose 

 and cleft at the apex ; fruit oblique, deeply furrowed, about 

 1 in. long, crowned with the more or less persistent calyx-limb 

 or with its remains. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In rather dry places, among tall grasses and in 

 thickets, among the mountainous forests of Alto Queta ; fl. April and 

 May 1855 ; fr. end of August 1855. No. 2564. Coli.. Carp. 648. 



33. ANCYLANTHOS Desf. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 112 {Ancylanthus). 



1. A. rubiginosus Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iv. p. 5, t. 2 (1818); 

 Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, p. 153 (1859); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. iii. p. 158. 



A.ferrugineus Welw. in Andr. Murr. Journ. Trav. i. p. 29 (1868). 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, branched from the base, 

 at first sight looking exactly like an Azalea ; leaves soft, rather 

 thick, scarcely coriaceous, fully developed only after the flowers ; 

 flowers rather rigid, rather dry, bright brick-red. In rocky thickets, 

 from the prsesidium to the district of Ambaca ; abundant : fl. Nov. 1856; 

 fr. Feb. 1857. No. 3159. 



2. A. fulgidus Welw. ex Hiern, I.e., p. 159. 



Ancylanthus (sp.), Welw. in Arch. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Genev. 

 1861, p. 202. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, rather densely virgate-branched ; 

 stems sparingly and patently branched ; branches rufous -tomentose ; 

 corolla brilliantly orange-red. In wooded thickets from Mumpulla to 

 Lopollo ; fl. Oct. 18511. No. 3160. At Lopollo in front of Senhor 

 Kneissman's house : fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 18G0. No. 3161. 

 A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with handsome flowers. In thickets ; fr. Jan. 

 1860. Coll. Carp. 87. 



Perhaps only a variety of the last species. 



3. A. cinerascens Welw. ex Hiern, I.e. 



Pungo Axdongo. — An erect, patently branched shrub, about 4 ft. 

 high, the young parts cinereous-tomentose throughout. Berries from 

 yellow to reddish, but little juicy. In the denser forests of Mutollo 

 near the prsesidium ; fi\ Jan. 1857. No. 3162 A slender shrub, 3 to 

 4 ft. high ; fruit pulpy, red-velvety ; seeds larger than in .1. rubiginosus 

 Desf. In forests by the river Mangue ; fr. 31 Jan. 1857. Coll. 

 Carp. 659. 



4. A. cistifolius W^elw. ex Hiern, I.e. 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect, sparingly branched shrub, 1^ to 3 ft. 

 high. In the forests composed of Mimoseae by Serra de Pedras de 

 Guinga, sporadic : fr. Jn. 1857. No. 3163- 



