■Siphonanthus] xcvi. verbenace^. 843 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A low shrub, occasionally climbing with long 

 sarmentose branches ; calyx coralline, white, persistent ; corolla from 

 greenish to whitish, deciduous ; berries black, shining. In secondary 

 woods near Calolo and Muria ; fl. and unripe fruit, Sept. 1854. No. 

 5630. At Quibolo ; fl. Aug. 185G. Xo. 5659. In fl. No. 5680. 



9. S. formicarum. 



Clerodendron formicarum Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 179 

 (22 Dee. 1893). C. triplinerve Kolfe in Bol. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 87 (1894). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In dry hilly places on the lower ranges of the 

 Queta mountains : fl. and fr. Nov. 1854. No. 5622. A shrublet, some- 

 times 1 to 2 ft. high and standing erect, sometimes climbing to the 

 height of 4 to 5 ft. ; leaves ternate : flowers white In sunny thickets 

 among the Queta mountains ; fl. June and July 1856. No. 5661. 



10. S. costulata Hiern, sp. n. 



Glabrate on most parts, except the minutely puberulous inflo- 

 rescence; branches woody, rather slender, subterete or slightly 

 compressed at the nodes, lenticellate, leafy towards the extremities ; 

 leaves opposite, spreading, oval, subelliptical or somewhat obovate, 

 obtusely acuminate and apiculate at the apex, rounded or obtusely 

 or obliquely narrowed at the base, entire or undulate-subrepand 

 on the very narrowly revolute margin, sometimes unequally 3- 

 nerved at the base, thinly coriaceous, rather glossy, somewhat 

 paler beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by J to 2| in. broad ; veins and 

 reticulation slender ; petioles J to | in. long, transversely rugose, 

 the older ones usually articulate and bent at a right angle near 

 the base, the lower part thicker and often persistent, the upper 

 part (or the leaf -base) often bent again at the apex ; inflorescence 

 paniculate, obtusely pyramidal, many-flowered, bracteate, about 

 2 to 3 in. in diameter, 4 to 6 in. long, terminating the branches 

 or branchlets ; the primary divisions patent, rather lax, opposite, 

 slender ; the ultimate pedicels J to i in. long, slender, sometimes 

 bracteolate ; bracts and bracteoles narrow ; flowers pentamerous ; 

 calyx campanulate-oblong, delicately ribbed longitudinally, shortly 

 lobed, about i in. long ; the lobes rather narrowly deltoid, acute, 

 nearly equal ; corolla tubular ; the tube ^ to f in. long, rather 

 slender ; the limb spreading or reflected, sub -bilabiate, deeply 

 lobed; the lobes roundly obovate, ^ to i in. long; the throat 

 funnel-shaped ; stamens 4, didynamous, exserted ; the filaments 

 inserted at the bottom of the corolla-throat, i and | in. long ; 

 anthers about -^ in. long ; style about equalling or slightly 

 exceeding the longer filaments, bifid at the top. 



PuNGO Andongo.— In fl. Nos. 5679, 5682. 



This species has the aspect of 5. {Chrodendrrni) Buchhohii [Giirke 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 176 (1893)], but the flowers and leaves 

 are smaller and the net-veins on the lower surface of the leaves more 

 conspicuous ; it differs from S. (C) Preussii (Giirke, I.e., p. 175) by the 

 shape of the calyx, etc. 



11. S. botryodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A sarmentose, glabrous shrub ; branches terete, smooth ; leaves 

 opposite subopposite or alternate, elliptical or oblong, obliquely 



