436 LXix. RUBIACE^, [Ouroiqxiria 



branches patent, fuscous, rather glossy, tetragonal, leaves 

 opposite, elliptical, narrowly acuminate at the apex, obtusely 

 narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, glossy, 

 dark-green above, paler beneath, 2 to 4| in. long, | to 1| m. 

 broad ; lateral veins about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender ; 

 petiole 3 to I in. long ; stipules ovate, small, somewhat hairy on 

 the inner face, early deciduous ; spines axillary, mostly crooked, 

 I to I in. long ; flower-heads terminating the branches, shortly 

 pedunculate, globose, about 2 in. in diameter ; flowers golden- 

 tawny, abovit I to I in. long (including the exserted style), very 

 numerous, crowded ; pedicels about g to i in. long in flower, 

 I in. long in fruit, tomentellous ; bracts ; calyx silky-tomentellous 

 with short upward hairs, somewhat constricted above the ovary, 

 greenish-fuscous; tube broader than the ovary, campanulate, 

 funnel-shaped, i to 4 in. long, shortly 5-cleft, lobes thickly 

 lanceolate ; corolla | to f in. long ; tube slender, except the base 

 clothed outside with downward tawny short silky-tomentose 

 hairs, | in. long ; limb much broader than the tube, hemi- 

 spherical, i to I in. in diameter, golden-tawny tomentose outside, 

 glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed; segments about g in. long, 

 obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex with an apiculus ; stamens 

 5, about half as long as the corolla-lobes, glabrous, introrse, 

 inserted on short flattened filaments at the base of the corolla- 

 limb ; ovary ellipsoidal, tomentose, rather thicker than the base of 

 the calyx-hmb, much thinner than the top of the calyx-limb ; style 

 filiform, exserted about | in. beyond the corolla, glabrous below, 

 stigmatose and rather thickened in the upper part towards the 

 clavate stigma ; young fruit subglabrous, about | in. long, i in. 

 thick, narrowed at both ends especially towards the base. 



GoLUNfiO Alto. — In the primitive forests of Sobato de Mussengue, 

 rather rare ; fl. middle Feb. ; young fr. March 1856. No. 3030. In 

 the very dense primitive forest of Quibanga, sporadic; ft. -bud, Jan. 

 1856. No. 3031. 



4. HYMENODICTYON Wall.; Benth.&Hook. f. Gen.Pl.ii.p.35. 



1. H. Kurria Hochst. in Flora xxvi. p. 71 (1843) ; Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 42. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A small tree of 8 to 10 ft. ; trunk straight, 

 4 to 5 in. in diameter near the base ; head dense, hemispherical ; 

 leaves thickly coriaceous, rather rigid, almost membranous in the 

 dried state, subglaucous-green, the new ones very large ; marginal 

 glands of the stipules clavate, thick, turning red ; bracts below the 

 racemes 2 together, lanceolate, almost like those in Tilia, dry, on long 

 stalks. In rocky shady parts of the preesidium, Barranco da Pedra 

 Songue at the banks of the Ca-Salale not common ; fl. Nov. 1856 ; fr. 

 March and May 1867. No. 3032. 



Var. tomentellum (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 



A small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high; head ovoid-globose, lax; 

 branches erect- spreading, somewhat twisted; leaves canescent- 

 tomentose beneath, crowded towards the extremities of the 

 branchlets ; flowers from whitish to yellowish, slightly fragrant. 



