466 LXix. RUBiACE/E. [Oxyaiithus 



on each side of the midrib, slender ; petiole ^ to § in. long ; 

 stipules ovate or lanceolate, acute, entire, connate at the base, 

 I to I in. long, palHd, persistent ; flowers very slender, 4 to 5 in. 

 long, whitish, several together in comparatively short axillary 

 cymes ; pedicels g to | in. long ; bracts like the stipules but 

 much smaller, deciduous ; bracteoles subulate ; calyx-limb small, 

 shortly cup-shaped with 5 lanceolate or subulate lobes y\j- to | in. 

 long; corolla-lobes 5, linear-oblong, § to 1 in. long, spreading; 

 anthers 5, exserted, ^^^ in. long; ovary 1 -celled ; style exceeding 

 the corolla-tube by | to f in., narrowly clavate at the apex ; fi'uit 

 subglobose, somewhat pyriform, scarcely an inch long, about f in. 

 in transverse diameter, 1-celled ; seeds rather numerous, about 

 i in. long. 



GrOLUNGO Alto. — Queta ; fr. July 1855. No. 2582i. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the wooded parts of Barranco de Songue, 

 rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 2582. 



23. SHERBOURNIA G. Don in Loud. Encycl. PI., Suppl. ii., 

 p. 1323 (1855). 



Amaralia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 90. 



1. S.foliosaG. Don in Loud. Encycl. PI., Suppl. ii., p. 1322(1855). 



Gardeiiia hignonice/Iora Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 13 (1859), 

 Amaralia hignonicejiora Welw. ex Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 iii. p. 112. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, chmbing to a great height : 

 branches purple ; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, faintly green above, 

 pale-green beneath, narrowed or occasionally cordate at the base ; 

 flowers handsome, 2 inches long, fleshy-coriaceous, almost like those of 

 a Bignonla in shape, hoary outside when dry, solitary, axillary, some- 

 what nodding ; peduncle short : calyx f ohaceous, lax, purplish ; corolla 

 rose-violet, purple inside, silky-shining outside, turning ashy in drying, 

 the tube cylindrical at the base, widening shortly above the base, 

 almost an inch in diameter, the limb 5-lobed, lobes broad, rounded- 

 obtuse, spreading and then turned back ; stamens 5 ; fruit (not quite 

 ripe) ovoid-oblong, green, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb : 

 cells many-seeded. In the dense primitive forests of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, sporadic ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1854. No. 2571- 



PuNGO Andongo.— A shrub or small tree with elongated, sub- 

 sarmentose branches, and broad opposite leaves ; flowers rather large, 

 orange-coloured variegated with dark purple ; corolla thickly coriaceous. 

 In bushy wooded parts of the district ; seeds, 1856 and 1857. Coll. 

 Carp. 642. 



According to Welwitsch, Apont., I.e., the fruit is 1-celled, elongate- 

 ellipsoidal, 1 to 14 in. in diameter, 3 to 3| in. long. 



24. POUCHETIA A. Rich. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 92. 



1. P. africana DC. Prodr. iv. p. 393 (1830) ; Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 117. 



Prince's Island. — In bushy places along a stream by the lower 

 slopes of Pico de Papagaio ; fr. Sept. 1853. No. 1251. 



