440 LXix. RUBIACE^. [Pentacarpcea 



oval, pointed or obtuse at the apex, usually rounded at the sessile 

 or subsessile base, yellowish -green, minutely scaly on both faces, 

 thinly scattered with short whitish hairs especially along the veins 

 on the lower face, 1 to 2| in. long by i to 1 in. broad ; lateral 

 veins 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib ; stipules narrowly lanceo- 

 late, often with supplementaiy lateral filiform segments ; inflores- 

 cence terminal, pedunculate, in compact branched small cymes, 

 about 1 in. in diameter, the main branches somewhat lengthening 

 in a spicate manner 1 to 2 in. long in fruit ; flowers red, sessile or 

 subse.ssile, ^ in. long ; calyx somewhat hairy or ciliate ; tube -^-^ 

 in. long, the foliaceous lobe i in. long or on the fruit | in. long ; 

 corolla-tube somewhat hairy outside ; limb ^ in. in diameter ; 

 lobes somewhat unequal, oval-ovate ; anthers glabrous, included ; 

 style shortly exserted, glabrous ; fruit |^ to i in. long exclusive of 

 the persistent foliaceous calyx-lobe at the apex. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — In sandy situations at the skirts of the forest, 

 near Lombe and Candumba ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5312. 



9. OTOMERIA Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 55. 

 1. 0. dilatata Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 50. 

 O.speciosa Scott Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxii. p. 437 (1896), 



quoad specimina Welwitschiana citata nn. 5316, 5317. 



HriLLA. — Flowers purple-red, somewhat like a Lychnis. At the 

 cataract of Ferrao da Sola ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 5316. An 

 undershrub or almost a herb, 2 to 2| ft. high or rarely taller, with the 

 habit of a Lychnis ; stems purple ; flowers brilhantly bloodred-scarlet : 

 calyx-segments unequal, narrow with some broader but none ever 

 elliptical or dUated-cordiform as in true 3russ(encln. At the cataracts 

 between Humpata and LopoUo, in elevated stations, about 5000 ft. 

 high, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 2 Jan. 1860. No. 5317. 



10. OLLENLANDIAPlum.,L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 58. 

 Uedijotis L. ; Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 56. Pentodon Hochst. ; 



Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 58. 



1. 0. Bojeri Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 53. 



PuNGo Andongo. — A perennial herb ; rootstock woody ; stems 

 numerous, erect or ascending ; flowers whitish-purplish, scarcely or but 

 little projecting beyond the bracts of the capitate cymes. In wooded 

 thickets and in exposed sandy places near Cazella and Luxillo ; fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3080. This is difficult to discriminate from the 

 next species ; possibly both species occur mixed under this No. 



2. 0. globosa Hiern, I.e., p. 54. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A perennial herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, strictly erect. 

 paUid-green ; rootstock woody : stems numerous ; flowers whitish. On 

 very elevated declivities among the mountains of Quilombo-Quiaca- 

 tubia, rather rare ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3221. A herb, 1 to 1| ft. high, 

 roughly pilose, perennial, erect, rigid, with the habit of Melastomacege. 

 On the sparingly grassy slopes of the more elevated ridges of the 

 mountains of Queta, above N-dele ; young fr. end of March 1856. 

 No. 3222. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers small, white. In hilly exposed places ; fl. and fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 3081. Flowers from whitish to pale purphsh. In 



