464 LXix. RUBIACE^, \_Macrosphyra 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A scandent widely spreading shrub, with soft 

 (but rough to the touch) membranous deep-green leaves. In forests 

 at the banks of the river Quiapoze, 21 March 1856. No. 4749. 



PUNGO Andongo. — A strong shrub ; trunk 1 to '2 in. thick, 4 to 6 ft. 

 high ; branches sarmentose, scandent ; leaves membranous ; flowers 

 resembling those of a Bignonia, black-purple, yellow-lined or spotted 

 inside ; fruit elongated, 3 in. long, IJ or 1 in. thick, apparently 

 1 -celled, many-seeded, seen only in a half putrid condition. In the 

 wooded parts of Barranco de Pedra Songue, within the prsesidium ; 

 foliage, Dec. 1856 (fl. June 1857). In the forests of Golungo Alto 

 the same species was seen as forming an erect tree of 8 ft. No. 4748- 



21. CHALAZOCARPUS Hiern, gen. nov. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, more or less pyriform in fruit ; 

 limb deciduous ; disk cushion-shaped, glabrous ; fruit obovoid- 

 oblong or pyriform, very densely tomentose-hirsute with pallid rigid 

 hairs, papillose with numerou.s small elevations of the skin inter- 

 mixed with very numerous minute elevations, 4- to 5-celled, inde- 

 hiscent ; cells with indefinite seeds ; seeds numerous, attached to a 

 central columnar placenta, angular, each enclosed in a thin loose 

 often incomplete arilloid coat ; angles of the seeds rounded ; testa 

 coriaceous ; albumen horny, uniform ; embryo slightly curved, of 

 moderate size ; cotyledons foliaceous, flattened. 



A small weak slender tree, with large opposite herbaceous leaves, 

 ovate entire caudate deciduous interpetiolar stipules, axillary 

 inflorescence, and lateral and subterminal fruits solitary or on 

 geminate peduncles in the axils of fallen leaves. 



1. C. hirsuta. 



A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, slender, weak, almost herbaceous, erect 

 hispid-hirsute on the young part lower face of leaves along the veins 

 and fruit ; branches opposite, lax, angular towai'ds the extremities, 

 pale or ashy, glabrescent; terminal buds tumid, pilose; leaves oppo- 

 site, crowded at the extremities of the branches, ovate or sometimes 

 obovate, shortly acuminate at the apex, unequal-sided and shortly 

 decurrent-attenuate at the base, herbaceous, pale-green on both 

 faces, especially beneath, scattered with short adpressed strigose 

 hairs above, shortly hispid-hirsute along the veins and veinlets 

 beneath, 12 to 18 in. long by 6 to 12 in. broad ; lateral veins 9 to 

 12 on each side of the midrib, slender except near the midrib, in 

 relief on the lower face ; petioles 1 to 1;? in. long, channelled and 

 hirsute above, rounded and glabrescent below ; stipules ovate, 

 caudate or subulate-apiculate, hirsute with pale rigid hairs, 

 deciduous, densely hairy inside, | to 1 in. long ; flowers not seen ; 

 fruits on the stem after the fall of the leaves in the axils of their 

 scars and sub-terminal, ovoid oblong or pyriform, more or less 

 tomentose-hirsute with pale rigid hairs, under the hairs papillose 

 with numerous small tubercles intermixed with very numerous 

 minute ones, in dehiscent, pallid, 1| to 2 in. long, 1 to 1^ in. in 

 transverse diameter, 4-celled; interior scented almost like the 

 fruit of Ceratonia Siliqua L. ; seeds numerous, about \ in. long b}' 

 i in. thick, pallid, invested in a thin loose coat of the same colour. 



