MoHnda] lxix. rubiace^. 493 



centre : the limb cupuliform, truncate, fleshy, hard, loosely surrounding 

 the corolla-tube, herbaceous-green ; corolla resembling a jessamine in 

 shape as well as fragrance, fleshy, rigid, herbaceous-green outside ; the 

 lobes snow-white inside, spreading in a stellate manner during the time 

 of flowering, at length reflexed ; fruit rather dry, the syncarpium 

 an inch in diameter. At the borders of forests close to the river 

 Delamboa ; fl. Jan. 1855 ; also by the Ambaca road at Camilungo ; fr. 

 Sept. 1855. No. 4758. An evergreen climbing shrub with white 

 fragrant flowers ; at Sange, fr. August 1855. Coll. Cakp. 656. An 

 evergreen climbing shrub ; flowers very fragrant with an aroma like 

 that of a jessamine. In wooded situations near Sange ; fr. July 1857. 

 Coll. Caep. 657. These specimens from the carpological collection 

 must also be compared with the previous species. 



39. MYRSTIPHYLLUM P. Browne, Hist. Jam. p. 152 (1756). 



Psychotrophum P. Browne, I.e., p. 160, pro parte, t. 17, f. 2. 

 Psychotria L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 929 (1759) ; Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 123, excl. syn. part. Myrstiphyllon 

 Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 505 (1763). Chasallia vel Chassalia 

 Comm. ex Poir. in Diet. So. Nat. viii. p. 198 (1817). Chasalia 

 DC. Prodr. iv. p. 531 (1830); Benth. & Hook, f., Ic, p. 126. 



1. M. cristatum. 



Psychotria cristafa Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. p. 205. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, rather an undershrub and tortuously 

 sarmentose on the ground with erect branches when growing in very 

 shady situations, but in open and less shady places climbing on trees 

 though to no great height ; leaves fleshy-coriaceous, brittle, very 

 glossy above ; flowers white ; pedicels fleshy, ventricosely jointed, 

 pale-rosy ; calyx green ; corolla pentamerous, the tube gibbous, fleshy ; 

 the throat naked ; the lobes induplicate-angular towards the apex ; 

 anthers 5, deep-violet in colour, at length exserted in consequence of 

 the turning back of the corolla-limb which is spotted with yellow 

 inside ; filaments inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; style 1, 

 terminating in a bifurcate stigma ; the lobes rather thick, yellowish, 

 subspathulate. In forests and their densely bushy outskirts, amongst 

 the eastern mountains of Queta, Jipepe ; not yet in full fl. end of Dec. 



1855. No. 3200. A shrub climbing widely but not high; berries of 

 a green-violet colour when not quite ripe. In thickets near Banza 

 in Sobato Bumba, rather rare ; fr. July 1855. No. 3201. A low 

 prostrate shrub ; flowering branchlets ascending ; flowers cymose, 

 milk-white ; peduncles rosy, fleshy ; berries turning black -blue, as 

 large as a good-sized pea, apparently 2-seeded. Capopa ; fr. April 



1856. Coll. Carp. 645. 



2. M. nigropunctatum. 



Psychotria nigropimctata Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 207. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A low little shrub ; stem ascending ; leaves 

 subcoriaceous, rather glossy ; flowers whitish. In very shady parts of 

 Mata de Pungo, sparingly ; fl. Dec. 1856, No. 3195- Our specimens 

 differ a little from the type by the extremities of the stem and lower 

 face of the leaves being minutely puberulous, etc. 



3. M. reptans. 



Psychotria reptans Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 418 (1849) ; 

 Hiern, I.e., p. 211. 



