656 LXXX. OLEACEZ. [ Jasminum. 
angular, suleate; leaves opposite, imparipinnate, 1- to 3-jugate, 
14 to 2 in. long, exstipulate; leaflets oval-oblong, rounded or 
emarginate at the apex, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, the 
lateral ones unequally so, firmly membranous, of nearly the same 
colour and subglaucescent on both faces, very narrowly revolute 
and entire on the margin, the terminal one } to 1 in. long by + 
to + in. broad, the lateral ones smaller than the terminal one; 
common petiole } to } in. long ; petiolules very short; inflorescence 
axillary. 
MossAMEpDES.—In a bushy sandy place by the bank of the river 
Maiombo, near Pomangala; seen nowhere else; without fl. in Oct. 
1859, with very young fl.-bud in June 1860. No. 3022. 
This species has apparently not hitherto been described ; it belongs 
to the section Pinnatifolia, DC., and is near J. floribundum Br. 
2. NATHUSIA Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 245 
(U.2. 1840) & in Flora xxiv. p. 671 (14 Nov. 1841). 
Schrebera Roxh. (1798) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 675; 
non L, apud Schreb. (1773). 
1. N. alata Hochst., /.c., p. 672; Welw. Apontam. p. 579 under 
Nota 10 (1859). 
Schrebera Saundersie Harv. Thes. cap. i. p. 40, t. 163 (1864). 
S. alata Welw. in Trans. Linn, Soe. xxvii. p. 41 (1869). 
Punco Anponco.—A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, precisely like an ash 
in habit ; trunk a foot in diameter at the base; leaflets deep green, 
rather fleshy, scarcely coriaceous ; flowers with the scent of Philadelphus 
coronarius L.; calyx puberulous or somewhat shaggy ; corolla straw- 
coloured ; the lobes of the limb mostly 6, patent, bearded at the base 
with hairs of a deep cinnamon colour more or less tinged with violet ; 
the tube scattered inside with thin dusky hairs; stamens inserted a 
little below the throat, included or sub-exserted ; filaments very short ; 
anthers apiculate at the apex with an empty appendage ; style filiform, 
exserted ; stigma thick, sub-bilobed ; the lobes contiguous, fuscous- 
stigmatose on the inner side. In little rocky woods intersected with 
numerous rivulets, on the south-west of the presidium, tolerably 
plentiful; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 937. Leaves pinnate. In Mata de 
Pungo ; fr. beginning of May 1857. Cou... Carp. 713. 
Hvi_ia.—A small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, but always with a single 
trunk, with the aspect of the European Ash ; leaves imparipinnate, 
coriaceous, glossy, with the rhachis winged ; flowers very fragrant 
especially by night ; corolla salver-shaped, like a jessamine, 5- to 8-cleft ; 
the tube scattered inside either throughout or only at the base with 
rather crisp hairs ; stamens 2, inserted a quarter or a third way down 
the tube ; anthers oblong, ellipsoidal, obtuse at both ends, sub-emar- 
ginate at the base, inserted at the middle of the back, included ; the 
connective broad, flattened, laterally 2-celled ; ovary obconical, sub- 
truncate at the apex, 2-celled; the cells 4-ovuled ; style flaccid ; 
stigma thickened-clavate, with 2 rather obtuse and usually cohering 
lobes ; capsule pyriform, much compressed at the apex, bi-partite ; the 
valves obcordate, emarginate, woody. In rather elevated (5000 ft.) 
much mixed forests in Morro de Lopollo; fl. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 
1860 ; young fr. May 1860. No. 938. Leavespinnate. Fr. Jan. 1860. 
Cou. Carp, 714. 
