Premna] xcvi. verbenace^. 833 



with 4 .shallow longitudinal and other furrows, I to ] in. long, 

 i to ,y in. broad, received at the base into the persistent not 

 lengthened calyx ; endocarp crustaceous ; .seeds (in one case) 2. 



GoU'Nco Alto. — In the more elevated thickets among the Alto 

 Quota mountains, very rare ; fl. Dec. 1855. No. 5656 ; fr. July 1855. 

 No. 5725. 



Aspect somewhat of Sij/hoinmlliu.s (jlabra. 



3. P. colorata ITiern, sp. n. 



A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high in the primitive forests or in 

 .secondary woods 12 to 15 ft. ; trunk slender, straight, 3 to 4 in. 

 in diameter at the base, with a whitish bark; head wadely 

 spread ; branches opposite, patent ; branchlets spreading nearly 

 horizontally, more or le.ss clothed with tawny short stellate 

 tomentose hairs, inconspicuously lenticellate ; leaves opposite, 

 oval or nearly so, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or obliquely 

 narrowed at the base, papery or membranous, entire or nearly so, 

 minutely glandular, pale green and more or le.ss clothed with 

 tawny stellate hairs along the midrib and principal veins above, 

 subglaucescent and comparatively glabrescent beneath, 3 to 6 in. 

 long by 1 .V to 3 in. broad ; lateral veins about 6 on each side of 

 the midrib, slender ; petioles }. to 1 in. long, tomentellous ; 

 llowers about -fg- in. long, as well as the whole inflore-scence 

 ])ale-sulphur in colour or the flowers whitish violet, arranged 

 in terminal obtusely pyramidal pubescent patently branched 

 bracteate many-flowered panicles of 3 to 6 in. long; common 

 peduncles ranging up to 2 in. long, tawny-tomentose ; bracts and 

 bracteoles narrow, the lower ones |- to i; in. long, the upper ones 

 rather shorter; ultimate pedicels |^ in. long or shorter, tawny- 

 tomentose ; calyx campanulate or subhemispherical, somewhat 

 (•ompre.ssed, jV to ..^^j in. long, jjersistent, shortly 5-lobed, 

 tomentose ; the lobes rounded or obtuse, equal or subequal ; 

 corolla tubular, about i to i in. long, glandular outside, quickly 

 deciduous ; the tube \ to i in. long, ^^ to -j\j in. broad, sub- 

 gibbous about the middle ; the limb shortly bilabiate ; the upper 

 lip 3-lobed, with reflected lobes ; the lower lip directeil forwards, 

 deeply emarginate ; stamens 4, didynamous, all fertile, glabrous ; 

 the filaments slender, in.serted below the middle of the coroll:i, 

 exserted by ^^ to ^V ^^- ! anthers small, shorter than broad, 

 2-celled, dehiscing laterally ; style i in. long, glabrous, terminal, 

 exserted, bilobed at the apex, the branched stigmatose and 

 capitellate at the apex ; ovary ^j in. long, subglobose, entire, 

 superior, glandular above, 4-celled ; ovules solitary ; young fruit 

 glabrate, unlobed, J in. broad. 



GoLiNCJo A i.To.— Flowers whitish violet. In the more elevated 

 primitive forest of Cungulungulo ; fl. Feb. 18.')5. No. 5663. 



PuNco Andonco. — Flowers sulphur-coloured. In the deep valleys 

 among the gigantic rocks of the pncsidium at Casongue; fl. Nov. 1850. 

 No. 5730. Flowers straw-coloured. In the wooded parts of Barranco 

 de Songue, sparingly : fl. and young fr. Feb. 1857. No. 5736. 

 Flowers pale sulphur in colour. In shaded woods at the base of the 



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