488 Lxix. RUBiACE^, [Pcivetta 



5. P. Schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 389. 

 HuiLLA. — A shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, with numerous stems ; corolla 



•white, contorted in the bud. In wooded thickets between Lopollo and 

 Monino, abundant ; fl. Dec. 1859 ; fr. March 1860. No. 3190. 



6. P. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect branched shrub : branches shortly pubescent or 

 glabrescent, ashy, more or less quadrangular, compressed at 

 the nodes ; branchlets leafy, pubescent-hispidulous with pallid 

 spreading hairs, somewhat compressed towards the extremities ; 

 leaves oblanceolate or obovate, opposite, rounded or obtuse and 

 usually pointed or subapiculate at the apex, gradvially wedge- 

 shaped to the subsessile base, not fully developed at the time 

 of the flower, deciduous, subcoriaceous, dark-green and scabrid 

 with short scattered hairs above, paler and scabrid-tomen- 

 tose beneath, ranging up to 6 in. long by 1| in. broad ; 

 lateral veins about 8 pairs, not conspicuous ; stipules ovate, 

 acuminate-subulate, supra-axillary, hairy at the back, glabrous 

 inside, about | in. long ; flowers white, sweetly fragrant, tetra- 

 merous, about j in. long exclusive of the exsei-ted style, on very 

 short hairy pedicels, many together arranged in opposite dense 

 globular lateral and subterminal abbreviated shortly pedunculate 

 bracteate cymes of 1 to l|in. in diameter mostly in the axils of 

 the leaves of the previous season ; bracts and bracteoles unequal, 

 ovate, hairy on the back, glabrous inside ; common peduncle about 

 i in. long ; calyx campanulate, hairy outside, 1 in. long ; the limb 

 yy in. long, glabrous inside, green, cleft half way ; lobes ovate ; 

 corolla nearly but not quite glabrous outside, shortly salver- 

 shaped ; tube bearded inside about the throat and on the upper 

 part, ~ in. long ; lobes oval w^hen flat, linear-oblong as inflexed at 

 the apex and margins, apiculate, glabrous inside except the 

 base, i in. long, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from above) in the 

 bud, spreading in a star at the time of the flower, inflexed at the 

 tip and along the margin ; anthers 4, sub-linear, glabrous, g- in. 

 long, 2-celled, acuminate at the apex by reason of the prolongation 

 of the connective, erect at the time of the flower, exserted, soon 

 reflexed ; disk glabrous, fleshy, annular ; ovary 2-celled, fleshy ; 

 ovules 2, imposed on the fleshy placentas; style glabrous, exserted 

 to a distance of | in. beyond the expanded corolla, thickened and 

 somewhat club-shaped above, cleft at the apex ; lobes small, 2, 

 stigmatose on the inner side ; young fruit pea-shaped, | in. long, 

 glabrate except the hairy calyx-limb. 



PuNGo Anixjngo. — In rocky thickets about the praasidium, as for ex- 

 ample at Lombeand Caghui ; fl. and young fr. 11 Oct. 1856. No. 3191- 



36. COFFEA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 114. 



1. C. arabica L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 172 (1753) ; Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 180 ; Welw. Apont. p. 549, sub n. 87, and 

 Synopse Explic. p. 9, n. 13 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis p. 199 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 9 or very 

 rarely 12 in. in diameter at the base, straight in the lower part, then 



