486 Lxix. RUBiACE.E. [Pcivetta 



scarcely bifid at the tip ; fruit depresso-subglobose, glossy, about 

 I in. in diameter, 2-celled, 2-seeded, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx-limb. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In dense thickets at the borders of primitive 

 forests at the base of the very lofty mountain of Cungulungulo ; with 

 imperfect fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3187. 



PrxGO Anuongo. — In densely shaded parts of Mata de Cabondo, 

 within the praesidium, not uncommon ; fl. end of Dec. 185f). No. 3185- 

 Mata de Cabondo ; fr. April 1857. No. 3186. 



This species is allied to P. Cooperi Harv. 



2. P. nitidula Welw, ms. in Herb. 



A very elegant bush or little tree of 12 to 15 ft. with the habit 

 almost of a Lavrus, or in secondary thickets a shrub of 4 to 6 ft., 

 very much branched, glabrous and rather shining throughout 

 except the inflorescence and the base of the stipules inside ; 

 branches roundly quadrilateral, somewhat compressed towards the 

 extremities ; leaves narrowly elliptical, pointed or apiculate at 

 the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, rigid, dark-green 

 and glossy above, paler and brownish-subglaucescent beneath, 4 to 

 6 in. long by 1 to 1| in. broad ; margin narrowly revolute ; lateral 

 veins 9 to 12 on each side of the midrib, slender, not conspicuous; 

 petioles ranging up to about 4 in. long ; stipules broadly ovate, 

 supra-petiolar, nearly connate at the base, keeled-subulate, about 

 \ in. long, hairy at the base inside ; flowers rather large, hand- 

 some, rosy-white or pale-purple, slightly aromatic, nearly | in. 

 long when expanded exclusive of the ex.serted style, tetiamerous, 

 on short rather thick bracteolate puberulous pedicels, arranged 

 many together in rather dense corymbose-hemispherical usually 

 sessile cymes 2 to 4 in. in diameter, terminating the branches; 

 calyx puberulous ; the limb quadrifid half way down, shortly hairy 

 on both sides, campanulate-hemispherical, about yV in. long ; the 

 lobes roundly deltoid, somewhat keeled and keeled-apiculate ; 

 corolla between funnel-shaped and salver-shaped, glabrous outside ; 

 the tube about ^ in. long, widening upwards, thinly hairy inside, 

 densely bearded at the throat; lobes 4, about |^ in. long, oval- 

 oblong, keeled-emarginate at the apex, contorted dextrorsely (as 

 seen from above) in the bvid, spreading or reflexed in full flower ; 

 anthers about \ in. long, linear, glabrous, longer than the fila- 

 ments, exserted ; disk fleshy, elevated, glabrovis ; ovary 2-celled, 

 somewhat compressed, the cells 1-ovuled; ovules imposed on the 

 fleshy placentas ; style about | in. long, glabrous below, slender, 

 projecting about § in. beyond the expanded corolla, gradually 

 thickening upwards into the narrowly clavate hairy stigma, 

 bidentate at the apex ; unripe fruits numerous, subglobose, slightly 

 turbinate at the base, crowned at the apex with the persistent 

 puberulous calyx-limb, \ in. in diameter, glabrate or nearly so, 

 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



PuNGO Anpongo. — In rocky shady places, and in wooded thickets 

 within the praesidium, especially by the streams Cazella and Cabondo, 

 abundant ; fl. from Oct. to April; nearly ripe fr. April 1857. No. 3189. 



