€halazocarpi(,s\ lxix. rubiace-i^. 465 



Cazhngo. — In very dense forests among the higher mountains of 

 Serra de Muxaula, sporadic and rare ; fr. not yet fully ripe June IBoo. 

 No. 2574. 



The foUomng two Nos. possibly belong to this species or 

 genus : — 



GoLUNHio Alto. — A bush of 2 ft., perhaps a mutilated tree. In 

 thickets springing up after tillage, near Zengas de Queta : without 

 either fl. or fr. June 1850. No. 4746- 



PuNGo Andoxgo. — An arborescent shrub ; stem straight, 1 to 2 in. 

 thick ; branches spreading ; leaves opposite, large ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar. pilose with long strigose hairs. Buds tumid, pilose. At the 

 borders of forests, by the side of the gigantic rocks of the fortress ; 

 without either fl. or fr. March 1857. No. 4747. 



22. OXYANTHUS DC; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 91. 



1. 0. tubiflorus DC. Prodr. iv. p. 376 (1830); Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 107. 



PuxG( » Anuongo. — Leafy branchlets only ; April 1857. The absence 

 of flowers and fruits renders absolute identification difficult, but the 

 foliage agrees with this species. No. 4751. 



2. 0. rubriflorus Hiern, I.e., p. 108. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A small tree of 10 to 12 ft. high with a tortuous 

 trunk, or in secondary thickets a shrub : flowers from yellow to red 

 and variegated with green. In the dense forests among the mountains 

 of Cabanga Cacalungo ; fl. August 1856 and July 1855. Fruit egg- 

 shaped subturbinate at the base or rarely subglobose, 2-celled, about 

 an inch long : seeds numerous, about -J- in. long. Nos. 3087, 3087&. 

 A shrub, almost a small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high ; stem branches and leaves 

 remarkable for their green-glaucous hue ; leaves coriaceous, Avedge- 

 shaped or obtuse at the base, shining on the upper face, quickly drying; 

 fruit olive-sbaped or somewhat pear-shaped, turbinate at the base, 

 green, many-seeded, smooth outside, 1^ to 1 in. long. Habit Acan- 

 thaceous. In elevated shady forests by streams among the mountains 

 of Serra de Alto Queta ; fr. August 1855. Apparently this species. 

 No. 3088. 



3. 0. speciosus DC. in Ann. Mus. Par. ix. p. 218 (1807); Hiern, I.e. 

 Island of St. ThoMxVS. — A small tree, but perhaps a young one. 



Fr. Dec. 1860. Native name "Mule-Mule." No. 3090. 



The following two Nos., without notes in the collection, must 

 be compared with this species, and the second No. also with the 

 jirevious species : — 



GoLUNGo Alto.— Fl.-bud. No. 3089. Without fl. or fr. No. 3088?-. 



3. 0. pallidus Hiern, sp. n. 



A glabrous little tree, 8 to 10 ft. high ; trunk 6 in. in diameter 

 at the base ; branches pallid, dichotomous, obtusely angular, 

 rather slender, green and somewhat flattened at the extremities ; 

 leaves oval or elliptic-oblong, mox'e or less cuspidate-acuminate at 

 the apex, in most cases obtusely and unequally narrowed and 

 narrowly decurrent at the ba.se, thinly coriaceous, deep-gi-een or 

 glaucescent-green a])ove, pallid beneath, 4 to 6.^ in. long by 1 to 

 2§ in. broad; margin very narrowly revolute; lateral veins 6 to 9 



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