496 Lxix. RUBiACEiE. [Grumileci 



coi'olla throat ; disk fleshy, cushion-shaped, glabrous ; ovary 

 2 • celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; o wiles erect or ascending; style 

 glabrous at base, minutely puberulous upwards, dilated towards 

 the bilobed stigma, often a little curved ; lobes of the stigma 

 glabrous inside. 



PuNGO AxDoNGO. — Between Cazella and Luxillo ; fl. Jan. 1857. 

 No. 3194. 



3. 6. moninensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershvub, about 18 in. high, often flowering at the top of 

 shoots of 9 to 12 in. high which arise after periodical burnings ; 

 stems sub-terete below, palMd or reddish, glabrate below, puberu- 

 lous above; branches patent, densely puberulous towards the 

 extremities with pallid short thick hairs, leafy ; leaves opposite, 

 obovate or oblanceolate, visually obtuse or rounded at the apicu- 

 late apex, wedge-shaped to the sessile or subsessile base, thinly and 

 firmly coriaceous, deep-green and nearly glabrous above, whitish 

 and squamulose-tomentellous beneath except the reddish venation, 

 11 to 4 in. long by § to 2 in. broad ; lateral veins about 10 on 

 each side of the midrib, starting at about 45° with the midrib, 

 clearly marked by difference of colour beneath ; stipules broadly 

 ovate, bipartite ; flowers white, about ^ in. long when expanded, 

 i in. long before expansion, subsessile, clustered several together 

 in little heads bracteolate at the base, arranged in compound dense 

 pedunculate nearly glabrous terminal cymes 1 to 1 .^ in. in diameter ; 

 bracteoles small, ovate ; common peduncle about 1 in. long ; calyx 

 y2 ill- long, glabrous or nearly so ; the limb cupuliform, 5-cleft ; 

 the lobes deltoid, loosely surrounding the corolla-tube ; corolla 

 white, rather fleshy, the tube funnel-shaped, short, sti-aight, 

 glabrous outside ; the throat densely bearded ; the lobes 5, ovate, 

 nearly \ in. long, valvate in the bud, induplicately so at the apex, 

 spreading in full flower, nearly glabrous outside, faintly squamu- 

 lose-puberulous inside ; stamens 5, glabrous ; anthers linear- 

 oblong, exserted, dorsifixed ; filaments nearly as long as the 

 anthers, inserted at the throat ; ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; 

 ovules ascending, sub-orbicular, compressed ; disk glabrous, fleshy- 

 annular ; style glabrous, about ~ in. long, rather thick and a little 

 curved ; stigma thickly clavate, 2- or rarely 3-Iobed ; fruit rather 

 dry, subglobose, i in. in diameter ; seed i in. in diameter ; testa 

 intruded. 



HuiLLA. — In the wooded thickets of Monino ; fl. and fr. beginning 

 of April 1860. No. 3192. 



4. G, Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A robiist little shrub, a foot high ; stems simple or a little 

 branched, sub-terete glabrate and bare below, somewhat com- 

 pressed puberulous and leafy towards the top ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate, rounded obtuse or shortly pointed and often apiculate at the 

 apex, rounded obtuse or shortly narrowed at the base, chartace- 

 ous, glabrous above or nearly so, usually scattered with vex'y short 

 hairs especially along the principal veins and margin beneath, 



