OkUnlandi(i\ lxix. rubiacE/E. 441 



herbaceous exposed elevated situations at Empalanca ; fl. and fr. 

 April 18G0. No. 3082. 



3. 0. sipaneoides K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 417. 



PuNiio A\Dt)N(;o. — An erect or ascending tender herb ; leaves deep- 

 green, membranous ; flowers beautifully azure-blue. In the caves of 

 the elevated rocks of Tunda Quilombo within the pnusidium, fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1857. (Capsule dehiscing loculicidally at the apex ; seeds 

 numerous, angular.) No. 3075. 



Var. asperuloides Hiern. 



A weak, slender, erect, herbaceous-green, .sub-glaucescent, 

 annual herb, ^\dth the habit of an Asjyerula, 3 to 8 in. high, 

 simple or with a few spreading or ascending branches, glabrate 

 except the youngest parts; stem quadrangular or towards the base 

 two-edged ; internodes longer than the leaves ; leaves ovate or 

 lanceolate, sub-apiculate, not acuminate, broad near the cuneate 

 base, thinh' membranous, with 4 or .5 slender not conspicuous 

 veins on each side of the slender midrib, I to 1 in. long by \ to 

 ^ in. broad ; petiole tt^ to |^ in. long, spreading, slender ; stipules 

 from a broad shortly sheathing base narrowed into a long subulate- 

 acuminate ciliolate apex, rather shorter than the petiole ; inflores- 

 cence terminal axillary or opposite to a leaf, slender, simple or 

 somewhat branched, usually with a subsessile flower at the point 

 of dichotomy or subspicate, few-flowered, ranging up to about an 

 inch long ; pedicels mostly very shoi't, but ranging up to | in. 

 long ; bracteoles very small, subulate ; flowers azure-blue, ^ to f in. 

 long ; calyx-limb 4-partite, ^^ to yV in long in flower, enlarging 

 to i to I in. long in fruit, persistent; segments sub -linear in 

 flower, slightly spathulate in fruit, equal or nearly so ; corolla-tube 

 slender, salver-shaped, \ in. long, straight ; limb quadrifid, funnel- 

 shaped, ^ in. in diameter ; stamens 4 ; anthers linear-oblong, just 

 exs'erted at the mouth of the corolla, dorsifixed near the base ; 

 filaments very slender, about as long as the anthers ; style exserted 

 rather beyond the anthers ; ovary campanulate, shorter than the 

 calyx-limb ; capsule depresso-globose, somewhat flattened, 2-celled 

 PuNOO Andonuo. — In very shady caves at the summit of the ranges 

 of rocks within the pra;sidium, in company with Beqoniu rostrate 

 Welw. ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3076. 



4. 0. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A hispid-pubescent perennial herb, 6 to 12 in. high ; rootstock 

 thick, woody, branched, giving off" from its crown numerous stems 

 spreading in all directions ; stems simple or branched above, rather 

 slender, somewhat quadrangular and between the angles sulcate ; 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate, apiculate at the apex, obtusely narrowed 

 or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, herbaceous- 

 green, rather dull, with 3 to 6 inconspicuous lateral veins on each 

 side of the midrib, ^ to 1| in. long by ^ to || in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to ^ in. long, spreading ; stipules truncate, pluri-setose ; 

 flowers at fir.st whitish, turning azure-blue, g to -j in. long, arranged 

 in compound terminal hemispherical cymes of about an inch in 

 diameter ; ultimate pedicels short or very short ; calyx-limb 



