492 LXix. RUBiACE.i;. [Jiutidea 



outside, glabrous inside, ciliate, with lanceolate-linear sub-acicular 

 segments ; corolla-tube slender, | to f in. long, thinly hairy out - 

 side, glabrous inside ; the limb deeply 5-clef t, spreading ; the 

 lobes lanceolate or ovate, pointed, ^ in. long ; anthers 5, inserted 

 near the middle of their backs on shorter filaments about the 

 throat of the corolla, alternating with its lobes, — to jjj in. long, 

 linear-oblong, glabrous, erect, half exserted ; disk narrow, fleshy, 

 glabrous, annular; ovary 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; 6vules on fleshy 

 placentas ; style glabi'ous, slender, x-eaching nearly as high as the 

 anthers, narrowly clavate and stigmatose towards the entire apex ; 

 berries globose, j in. diameter or rather larger, rather dry, 

 glabrous, crowned with the persistent hirsute erect calyx-limb, 

 1 -celled, 1 -seeded; seed globose, about 4 in. diameter; albumen 

 deeply ruminated. 



PuNGO Andongo. — By thickets along streams near Cazella within 

 the praBsidium, rather sparingly ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3166- 

 In similar places ; fl. middle of Nov. 1856, rather rare. A form with 

 the corolla-tube abbreviated, § in. long (half as long as in the previous 

 No.). No. 3167. 



38. MORINDA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 117. 



1. M. citrifolia L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 176 (1753) ; HierninOHv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 191. 



Var. lucida Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 406 (1849) (sp.). 



Barra no Bengo. — A small tree in the form of a bush with 

 branches hanging down and with white flowers. In palm-groves by 

 the river Bengo, near Santo Antonio ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1853. 

 No. 4755. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A beautiful leafy tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, remark- 

 able for the peculiar lustre of its foliage and the abundance of its 

 white fragrant flowers ; trunk a foot in diameter at the base ; 

 branches spreading ; branchlets nodding-ascending : leaves coriaceous. 

 At the borders of palm-groves along the banks of the river Delamboa, 

 rather rare ; fl. and young fr. May 1855. No. 4764. A small tree. 

 Compare also with the next species. Coll. Carp. 658. 



Prince's Island. — A small tree, apparently evergreen ; branches 

 patent, red ; branchlets and leaves bright-green ; flowers whitish, 

 fleshy. In forests about Pico Papagaio ; fr. Sept. 1 853. Native name 

 "Guigo.' No. 4756. 



According to a note of Welwitsch, the name of this tree in Golungo 

 Alto is " N-golo-mugi," and its trunk reaches the size of 2^ to 3 ft. in 

 diameter, especially in the virgin forests of Capopa ; the timber is 

 generally used by the negroes for the building of their huts. 



2. M. longiflora G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 545 (1834); Hiern, ^.c. 

 Golungo Alto. — A subscandent evergreen shrub ; leaves and 



flowers more or less fleshy ; flowers completely herbaceous-green 

 except the internal face of the corolla-lobes which is snow-white. 

 Near Ponte de Felix Simoes, sparingly; fl. Nov. 1854. No. 4767. A 

 shrub, sometimes prostrate with the flowering branchlets ascending, in 

 other cases climbing with the branches and branchlets hanging down ; 

 flowers hexamerous, very sweetly fragrant, scented like jessamine ; 

 calyces concrete at the base, diverging in a radiating manner from one 



