Pavetta] lxix. rubiace^. 487 



Much resembling P. Baconia, but the calyx-lobes are not imbricate 

 and are persistent on the fruit. 



3. P. Baconia Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 176. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, 12 ft. high, with a widely spreading leafy 



head ; trunk 2 in. in diameter at the base ; branches erect-spreading ; 

 leaves evergreen ; flower-buds greenish ; fruit drupaceous, juicy, either 

 sub-globose or didymous, soft and turning black when ripe, 1- to 

 2-seeded. In the forests of Sobato Quilombo ; fl.-bud and ripe fr. 

 middle of July 1856. No. 3203 and Coll. Carp. 647. 



Cazengo.— A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, with a cofBee-like habit, white 

 flowers, and coriaceous evergreen leaves. In shady forests along the 

 river Luinha, and also between Cambondo and the Luinha ; Dec. 1854. 

 Colonial name "Primo de CafPe." The specimens were given to Wel- 

 witsch by Senhor Pereira, and are without corollas. No. 3188. 



The condition of the specimens renders these determinations some- 

 what doubtful. 



4. P. radicans Hiern, sp. n. 



A small low-growing shrub, about 6 in. high ; the little trunks 

 bending down trailing or decumbent and rooting, glabrate ; 

 branchlets pubescent with short hoary spreading hairs, erect or 

 ascending, leafy towards the extremities ; leaves (perhaps not fully 

 developed on the specimens) opposite, elliptical or somewhat 

 obovate, obtusely narrowed at the apex and apiculate with a 

 cartilaginous tip, unequally narrowed at the base, firmly char- 

 taceous, dark-green and puberulous or hispidulous at least along 

 the midrib above, rather paler or browner and more hairy beneath, 

 1 to 1 ^ in. long by 3 to | in. broad ; lateral veins about 4 on each 

 side of the midrib, inconspicuous ; petiole yV to i in. long, hispidu 

 lous ; stipules ovate, subulate-acuminate, almost connate at the 

 base, hairy at the back, glabrous inside, about |- in. long, deciduous ; 

 flowers white, fragrant, tetramei^ous, about 1 in. long when ex- 

 panded exclusive of the exserted style, on short hoary-pubescent 

 pedicels, few or several together in abbreviated lateral axillary or 

 terminal cymes or terminating short lateral branchlets ; bracteoles 

 small, stipuliform ; calyx i in. long, shortly hairy outside, cam- 

 panulate, somewhat compressed, the limb ^V in. long, 4-cleft, the 

 lobes ovate or deltoid, hairy on both sides ; corolla scattered with 

 pubescent hairs outside, salver-shaped ; tube ^ to 1 in. long, 

 hairy inside, slender ; throat bearded ; lobes oval-oblong, pointed 

 at the apex, about ^ in. long, comparatively glabrous inside, but 

 with some hairs especially near the base, contorted in the bud 

 dextrorsely (as seen from above), spreading or I'eflexed in flower ; 

 anthers linear, about -g- in. long, glabrous, twice as long as the 

 filaments, exserted ; ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary, on fleshy 

 placentas ; style slender, glabrous, entire, exserted nearly ^ in. 

 beyond the expanded corolla. 



HuiLLA. — In thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 3184. 



Nearly related to P. subcana Hiern or to P. canescens DC, it differs 

 from each by its low habit ; in length of flower and breadth of leaf it 

 approaches P. incana. 



