438 LXi. RUBiACE^. [Randia 



Goi.UN(;i> Alto. — A small tree, with dirty- white flowers. In the 

 more elevated forests of Serra de Alto Queta, rather rare ; fl. May 

 1855. No. 3093. A bush of 6 to 8 ft., perhaps a young tree ; flowers 

 whitish. In the elevated forests of Sobato de Quilombo, Quiacatubia, 

 sparingly and sporadic ; young fr. and few fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3093^. 



Cazengo. — A bush as tall as a man ; flowers white. Leaves at the 

 time of the flower nearly always devoured by insects. In the more 

 elevated forests of Serra de Muxaulo (Muschaulo) ; fl. and sparse fr. 

 Jan. 1855. No. 3092. 



Seems near R. micrantha K. Schum. 



2. R. genipseflora DC. Prodr. iv. p. 389 (1830); Hiern in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 95. 



Cf. R. Quintasii K.Schum.inHenr.Bol.Soc.Brot.x.p. 127(1892). 



Island of St. Thomas. — Mucumba, Dec. 1860. The specimen i;^ 

 without either fl. or fr., and therefore the determination is very doubt- 

 ful. The leaves are ternate on the specimen, two being opposite and 

 the third axillary, oval, papery, glabrous except small tufts of short 

 hairs in the axils of the 6 pairs of slender veins on the lower face. 

 in. long by 2J in. broad ; petiole ^ in. long, slender ; internodes 

 about 3 in. long ; branchlets sub-terete, glabrescent ; stipules caducous, 

 deltoid or lanceolate. No. 3097- 



3. R. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A tree, 10 to 25 ft. high; trunk ranging up to 18 in. in 

 diameter, straight, erect ; head ovoid or obovoid, evergreen ; 

 branches pallid, patent ; branchlets sometimes reddish, glabres- 

 cent ; leaves elliptical or somewhat obovate, cuspidate-acuminate 

 at the apex, wedge-shaped or obtuse and unequal at the base, 

 opposite or verticillate, 2 to 4 together, glabrous except the prin- 

 cipal veins beneath, pallid on both faces, rather glossy above, 

 coriaceous, often minutely punctate, 2 to 6| in. long by | to 3^ in. 

 broad ; lateral veins 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, depressed 

 on the upper face, raised often a little hairy and slightly reddish 

 on the lower face ; petiole ^ to i in. long, hairy or glabrate ; 

 stipules ovate or lanceolate, glabrate at the back, acute, entire, 

 rather exceeding the petiole, deciduous ; flowers whitish, silky- 

 tomentose outside, 1| to 2 in. long before expansion, about 1 to 

 li in. long when expanded, arranged several together in very 

 abbreviated axillary bracteolate cymes ; calyx ^ to ^ in. long ; the 

 limb cup-shaped, with 5 lanceolate acute rather unequal lobes 

 about as long as the tube ; corolla-tube slender, about an inch 

 long, slightly widening upwards, glabrous inside; lobes lanceo- 

 late-oblong, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from above) in the bud, 

 spreading in flower, glabrous inside, white or occasionally rosy ; 

 throat glabrous ; anthers narrowly linear, glabrous, | in. long, 

 exserted, dorsifixed, inserted on very short slender filaments a 

 little below the throat of the corolla and about one-third above 

 the base of the anther; ovary 2 -celled; style exserted, glabrescent, 

 bidentate at the stigmatose apex ; fruit globose-pyriform, puberu- 

 lous, ^ in. in diameter, crowned with the erect persistent calyx- 

 limb ; seeds few, about -^ in. long, with rounded angles. 



PuNGO Akdongo. — In wooded situations between Catete and Luxillo, 



