460 LXix. RUBiACE^. [Ranclia 



shortly 5-cleft, the teeth about | in. long, nearly equal, thickly 

 cuspidate from a short broadly ovate base, persistent ; corolla 

 whitish (tawny in the dried state) and shortly felted outside, the 

 tube pale-purple and glabrous inside, urceolate-funnel-shaped with 

 a prolonged base, | to | in. in diameter, shortly 5-lobed ; lobes 

 rounded, f to ^ in. broad, ^ to | in. long, contorted dextrorsely (as 

 seen from above) in the bud, spreading at the time of flowering, 

 shortly tomentose outside, less densely hairy and glabrous about 

 the base inside ; throat glabrous ; stamens included ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, | in. long, glabrous; ovary 2 -celled ; style included, 

 \h in. long, club-shaped, glabrous; unripe fruit pendulous; 

 globose, as large as a walnut, 1 to 1| in. in diameter, of a bright 

 cinnamon colour outside, 1 -celled, crowned with the hardened 

 tubular and toothed calyx-limb ; seeds embedded in pulp, some- 

 what compressed, with rounded angles. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In Panda forests at the river Mangue and near 

 Caghuy ; young fl.-bud and unripe fr. Jan. 1857. No. 2581^'. 



HuiLLA. — In the more open woods and thickets between Lopollo 

 and Quipungo, sporadic ; fl. and unripe fr. April 1860. No. 2581. 



In Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 437 (1897), K. Schumann suggests the 

 identity of our No. 2581 with his R. Englerknia described on his previous 

 page and figured on p. 70 of Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 (4) (1891) ; our plant has, however, rounded coi-olla-lobes and other- 

 wise differs from his species. Our plant was also collected in Angola 

 by Anchieta n. 25 in 1879, and by Capello n. 165. The following pro- 

 bably belongs to the same species : — 



HuiLLA. — An evergreen shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous, 

 glossy ; flowers white-reddish, "Ih in. long, handsome, very sweetly 

 fragrant, nodding, like a Bignonia in shape ; fruit 1 -celled ; seeds 

 numerous, enveloped in a sweet pulp, which is flavoured like that of 

 the fruit of Ceratoma Silupia L. and is consumed with great avidity by 

 the negroes. In open forests between Huilla and Caconda, rather rare ; 

 fr. Jan. 1860. Coll. Carp. 5. 



6. R. maculata DC. Prodr. iv. p. 388 (1830) ; Hiern, I.e., p. 96. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Calyx spathaceous according to Welwitsch (though 

 the specimens before me do not confirm this description), 5-toothed ; 

 corolla dextrorsely contorted (as regarded from above) in a3stivation, 

 slightly ventricose in the middle in the bud ; stamens 5, inserted below 

 the throat of the corolla, without filaments ; anthers yellow, adnate 

 for two- thirds of their length to the corolla-tube on an elliptical 

 tract ; style columnar, twisted towards the upper part ; stigma not 

 seen (fully developed) with 5 short green dextrosely twisted foliaceous 

 segments. In the forests of Capopa ; foHage, beginning of August ; 

 fl.-buds end of Sept. 1855. No. 3095. A very elegant little tree, 7 

 to 10 feet high ; branches erect-spreading ; leaves dry-coriaceous, very 

 glossy ; flowers white, sweetly fragrant, rather nodding ; disk elevated, 

 yellowish, 5-lobed ; fruit (not quite ripe) ovoid-fusiform, crowned 

 with the calyx-limb, unequal at the base, bright yellowish-green 

 outside, sHghtly furrowed, the furrows deep at the base. In 

 remarkably shady primitive forests near the spring of Capopa ; fl. 

 beginning of Nov. 1855. No. 3094. Capopa : fl. beginning of June. 

 No. 3094^. A small tree, 10 to 15 feet high ; branches patent ; 

 branchlets herbaceous-green, cylindrical ; leaves opposite or oftener 



