II//menodictijoii] lxix. rubiace^. 437 



HriLLA. — In the more elevated wooded rocky but little shady parts 

 of Morro de Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1850 ; fr. March 18G0. No. 3033. 



5. CORYNANTHE Welw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 3G. 

 1. C. paniculata Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 37, t. 14 



(1869) ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 43 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 194. 



Rubiacea, Welw. Synopse Expl. p. 7, n. 2 (1862). 



GoM'NGo Alto. — A very useful and magnificent tree, 40 to 60 ft. 

 high, with the habit of Plnllnrea laO/'dia L. ; trunk straight, very 

 rarely bent, 1 to 2^ ft. in diameter near the base : wood very dense, 

 excellent, of fine grain, white, hard, durable, used in housebuilding and 

 for many other purposes ; branches rather erect, the lower ones usually 

 directed downwards on the adult tree, leaves opposite, coriaceous, but 

 little glossy (or in the dried state glossy-green above), evergreen : 

 flowers thyrsoid, collected in terminal panicles, white, slightly fragrant, 

 much frequented by bees, leather fleshy : calyx oblong-campanulate, 

 green, 5-toothed, inferior, persistent, including the ovary ; corolla white, 

 hypocrateriform, shaggy at the throat, spreading in flower, with a fleshy 

 subturbinate tube inserted on the throat of the calyx, with a 5-clef t 

 limb and gibbous ovate lobes valvate in aestivation, and having a long 

 club-like whitish appendage below their hooded tops ; stamens 5, alter- 

 nating with the corolla-lobes, exserted : filaments sub-obsolete ; anthei-s 

 rigid, fleshy, linear-oblong, subsessile at the throat of the corolla, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, attached at the middle of the back : 

 cells a little diverging below, subulate and empty at the apex ; ovary 

 ovoid-conical ; style thickly filiform, central, filling the whole cavity of 

 the corolla-tube, exserted at the time of flowering, white ; stigma 

 ovoid, obtuse, thick, rather compressed, longitudinally furrowed, 

 white ; capsule fuscous, bi-sulcate, mucronate with the persistent 

 calyx-teeth. Forming extensive forests in nearly all the more elevated 

 parts of Quilombo and Mata de Alto Queta ; fl. Jan. to May, fr. 

 March to July. 1855 and 185G ; about Montalegre (Cungulungulo), 

 Feb. 1855. Native name " Mangue," the Portuguese name is " Mangue 

 do Monte " or " Paco de Grolungo Alto. ' No. 1508. 



It occurs also in similar situations in the districts of C.\zengo and 

 Demf.os. On the bark of this tree grew the Lichens nn. 130, 139, and on 

 its wood the P^ungus n. 36(5. 



6. CROSSOPTERYX Fenzl ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 4L 

 1. C. Kotschyana Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. (vi.) p. 46 (1839) : 



Hieni in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 44 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 194 

 (1884). 



C. africana Baill. Hist. PI. vii. p. 489 (1879). Rubiacea, Welw. 

 Apont. p. 590 [n. 96]. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A loosely branched tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 

 4 to 6 in. iu diameter near the base ; branches elongated, erect-spread- 

 ing ; branchlets dilatate-flattcued at the nodes from which tlie inflores- 

 cence arises ; leaves bright-green, sub-tomentose beneath, deciduous ; 

 capsule 2-valved, dehiscing at the apex, 2-celled ; cells many-seeded ; 

 seeds surrounded with a fringed wing. In rough places at the borders 

 of the primitive forests of Alto Queta : scarcely ripe fr. June 1856. 

 No. 3034. A shrub of 12 ft., with spreading branches, and leaves 

 deciduous at the time of fruiting. Structure of the fruit very curious. 

 At Catomba ; fr. July 1850. Coll. C.vkf. 633. 



