468 LXix. RUBIACE^. [Tricalysiu 



corolla- throat densely bearded ; anthers exserted ; connective pro- 

 duced at the apex with a subulate appendage ; style level with the 

 anthers ; stigma deeply bilobed. Gabriel's coifee tree. No. 3118. 

 An evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches straight, spreading, 

 decussate, with a whitish bark ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, 

 paler beneath ; flowers white, fragrant ; corolla contorted in aestivation. 

 In hilly bushy rocky places at the back of Alto das Cruzes ; fl. Feb. 

 1854 ; unripe fr. April 1854. No. 3119. A shrub of 5 to 7 ft., 

 evergreen, forming the densest thickets ; branches decussate, whitish ; 

 stipules acuminate : leaves coriaceous, rather glossy, from pale 

 yellowish to greenish and paler beneath ; fruit as large as a small 

 pea or a peppercorn, greenish purple when unripe, crowned with the 

 remains of the calyx-limb. In hilly, sandy and rocky places, not far 

 from Quicuxe, abundant ; unripe fr. May 1854. No. 3120. A shrub ; 

 stems caespitose, erect, 4 to 6 ft. high, patently branched ; leaves 

 evergreen ; berries clustered, as large as a small pea, at first green, 

 soon turning to bluish-green, at length black, 2-celled ; seeds 2 or 3 

 or rarely 4 in each cell, or very rarely solitary in one of the cells. 

 On bushy plains near Quicuxe ; fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 3121. A shrub, 

 4 to 5 feet high ; branches whitish ; leaves evergreen ; fruit baccate, 

 black, pruinose. In thickets between Quicuxe and Mutollo, sporadic ; 

 seeds July 1854. Probably this species. Coll. Carp. 134. 



3. T. glabra K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 445 (1896). 

 PuNGO Andongo.— A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 6 in. in 



diameter at the base, unbranched to the height of 5 ft., then with 

 spreading branches and nodding branchlets ; flowers white ; corolla 

 densely bearded at the throat ; anthers produced at the apex of the 

 connective into an apiculus ; style filiform, gradually thickened 

 upwards, obsoletely bilobed, the lobes stigmatose. In deep, shaded, 

 wooded valleys amongst the gigantic rocks of the praesidium at Catete, 

 sporadic ; fl. Nov. 1856. No. 3117- 



The above No. is the type of the .species ; the two following 

 Nos. appear also to belong to the species : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — A graceful and ornamental tree, 6 to 8 ft. high, 

 much branched ; branches spreading ; leaves coriaceous, shining, very 

 bright green ; unripe fruit green, 3- or 2-celled, crowned with the 

 calyx-limb, bracteate at the base. In elevated rocky parts of the 

 presidium, in Pedra de Cabondo ; young fr. end of April 1857. No. 

 3091. A tree of 5^ ft., with the habit of the genus or of a tangerine 

 orange tree ; head sparse ; leaves bright-green, persistent, pallid beneath ; 

 unripe fruit greenish. Near the top of Pedra de Cabondo in rocky 

 situations within the prsesidium ; only one branch seen in fr. April 

 1857. No. 3129. 



4. T, andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust shrub, with the habit of a Goffea ; branches divaricate, 

 sub- terete, glabrate, dark-ashy ; branchlets scandent or pendulous- 

 nodding, often alternate, leafy and densely beset towards the 

 extremities ' with whitish rigid short hairs, somewhat angular; 

 leaves elliptical, more or less narrowed at each end, firmly 

 papery, glabrous except the principal veins and ciliolate margin, 

 green above, rather paler beneath, flat, 2^ to 4 in. long by 1^ to 

 If in. broad ; lateral veins 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender; petiole hairy, i to | in. long; stipules entire, ovate, 



