Gh'umilea] lxix. rubiace.e. 495 



patent, raised beneath ; petioles ranging up to 1 1 in. long ; 

 stipules ovate, acute, connate at base, undivided, | in. long; 

 flowers pentamerous, greenish, about g in. long when expanded, 

 on short puberulous pedicels arranged in compound umbellate 

 shortly pedunculate or sessile puberulous terminal cymes 2 

 to 3 in. in diameter ; common peduncles ranging up to | in. 

 long ; calyx y? i^- ^^ng, puberulous outside ; the limb cupuliform, 

 5-cleft ; the lobes deltoid, glabrous inside ; corolla nearly glabrous 

 outside ; the tube about yV in. long, straight ; the throat densely 

 bearded ; the lobes about ^ in. long, oval, pointed, valvate in the 

 bud, induplicately so at the apex, spreading or reflexed in open 

 flower ; stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla ; 

 glabrous ; anthers ellipsoidal-oblong, exserted, shorter than the 

 filaments, ^^ in. long : disk fleshy, glabrous, prominent, com- 

 paratively large ; style glabrous below, not exserted, about 

 reaching the throat of the corolla ; stigma bilobed ; ovary 

 small, fleshy, 2-celled, sub-turbinate, somewhat compi'essed ; cells 

 1-ovuled ; ovules erect; fruit pea-shaped, ^ in. in diameter, 

 glabrate, 1-celled ; seed solitary ; albumen apparently ruminated. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In dense forests by streams near Catete ; fl. and 

 young fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3208. 



2. G. flaviflora Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, 12 to 15 in. high, as the upgrowth from a 

 ■woody rootstock, or probably growing taller ; stems several, erect 

 or ascending, not much branched, pubescent or puberulous with, 

 whitish short hairs and somewhat angular except the base, com- 

 pressed toward the apex ; middle internodes distant ; leaves 

 opposite, obovate, rounded or retuse and sometimes mucronulate 

 at the apex, wedge-shaped towards the base, thinly coriaceous, 

 shining, deep-green and sparingly scattered with short hairs 

 above, paler and subscabrid mth short hairs along the midrib 

 and venation beneath, ranging up to 4 in. long by 2g in. broad ; 

 lateral veins about 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, slender but 

 clearly marked as well as the reticulation beneath ; petioles ranging 

 up to I in. long ; stipules deltoid, pointed, undivided, connate at the 

 base, hairy at the back ; flowers turning yellow, about | to ^ in. 

 long when expanded, sessile or subsessile, several together in little 

 dense clusters arranged in brachiately branched hemispherical-corym- 

 bose pedunculate hairy terminal cymes about 2 in. in diameter ; 

 common peduncle nearly 3 in. long, compressed, pubescent, with 

 2 caudate bracts at the apex ; bracteoles small, some cavidate ; 

 calyx about ^V in. long, pubescent outside ; the limb cupuliform, 

 4 to 5-cleft, glabrous inside, lobes deltoid ; corolla rather fleshy, 

 i or J in. long when expanded ; the tube cylindrical, straight or 

 nearly so, nearly glabrous outside ; throat densely bearded ; limb 

 spreading ; lobes 4 or 5, ovate, obtuse, ^V to ~ in. long, valvate 

 in the bud, induplicately so and hooded at the apex ; stamens 

 4 or 5, more or less shortly exserted, minutely hairy; anthers 

 oblong, about equalling the filaments which are inserted on the 



