490 Lxix. RUBiACE^. [Coffea 



loosely investing the cotyledons, quite smooth. In moist forests, often 

 in company with C. arahka, at the banks of the river Delamboa ; ripe 

 fr. JulylSyS. Coll, Carp. 651. Mata de Cacarambola : seeds August 

 1855. Coll. Carp. 652. Berries didymous-round, black-purple. In 

 forests near Morro de Cacarambola, in company with palms : seeds 

 July 1855. Coll. Carp. 653. 



Cazengo. — Berries when ripe as large as a good-sized pea, somewhat 

 didymous, very black with a very slight redness, 1 or 2-seeded ; near 

 the river Delamboa ; nearly ripe fr. June 1856. Also in Golungo 

 Alto. No. 3178. 



4. C. hypoglauca Welw. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, 

 i. p. 173, and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 183 ; Ficalho, I.e., p. 205. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; head lax ; 

 branches quite patent ; leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, glaucous 

 beneath. In wooded situations near Catete, Baranco grande in Sobato 

 de Catete ; unripe fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3174. A tree of 15 ft. or more, 

 with the habit precisely of C. arahica ; trunk 2| ft. (?) in diameter at 

 the base ; branches patent ; leaves few-nerved and glaucous beneath ; 

 unripe berries green, as large as a small-sized pea. In shady forests 

 between Catete and Pedra Pungo : unripe fr. Feb. 1857. No. 3175. 

 A small tree, 8 ft. high, with the habit of C. arahica ; trunk straight, 

 slender ; berry 2-celled and 2-seeded or in some cases 1 -celled and 

 1 -seeded the septum and the second seed being abortive ; seeds 

 furrowed on the face (or according to Welwitsch flat and without a 

 furrow on the face in the case of a nearly ripe fruit). In wooded 

 places near Catete at the river Tangue. wild ; nearly ripe fr. May 1857. 

 No. 3176. 



5. C. jasminoides Welw. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, 

 i. p. 175, and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 185 ; Ficalho, I.e., p. 205. 



Golungo Alto. — A sarmentose twisted shrub ; flowers precocious, 

 snow-white, subpendulous, very sweetly fi-agrant. In very shady 

 forests on the right-hand side of the road leading from Ponte de Luiz 

 Simoes, towards Camilungo ; with leaves without fl., and fl. without 

 leaves, Dec. 1854. No. 3169. Ponte do Felix Simoes, Camilungo : 

 with leaves and fr. beginning of June 185(5. No. 3170. Flowers 

 white, a little purplish, very fragrant ; corolla hexamerous and 

 pentamerous. Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. without foliage, Jan. 1855. 

 No. 3171. A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, erect but with the branches more 

 or less sarmentose, leafless at the time of flowering, very much 

 branched ; branches decussate, spreading horizontally : habit of a 

 Ja.wiinum, which it resembles also in the shape and the very pleasant 

 fragrance of its flowers ; calyx relatively small, completely hidden by 

 bracts, investing the ovary, urceolate ; the limb erect, crenate-lobed ; 

 the lobes 7 or 8, short, broad, rather rigidly membranous, rounded- 

 obtuse at the apex ; corolla funnel-shaped, salver-shaped, white, usually 

 rosy-red outside ; the tube slender, sub-cylindrical, equal, about an 

 inch long, naked inside ; the limb spreading, G- or 7- or very rarely 

 5-partite ; the segments oljlong, rather obtuse, erect-patent ; stamens 

 equal in number to the corolla-lobes or very rarely 8, inserted a little 

 below the throat of the corolla, included ; anthers incumbent but 

 erect on account of the shortness of the filaments, attached by the 

 middle to the very short filaments ; style deeply bifid at the apex, 

 with spreading thick lanceolate-spathulate obtuse lobes stigmatose on 

 the inner side. In the densest thickets of forests, with its ultimate 

 branches quasi-scandent among neighbouring shrubs, near Camilungo 



