Ccmthium] LXix. rubiace^. 477 



longitudinally folded inwards ; petioles short, ranging up to j\ in. 

 long ; stipules ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, undivided, 

 deciduous ; flowers i in. long when expanded, I- in. long before 

 expansion, white, tetramerous, glabrous outside, on rather short 

 puberulous pedicels, arranged in axillary shortly pedunculate 

 cymes }^ to 1 in. in diameter ; common peduncle i to | in. long, 

 puberulous ; bracteoles small, deciduous ; calyx-liral) small, shortly 

 dentate ; corolla quadrifid ; the tube ^^ in. long, pilose inside ; 

 the throat bearded ; the lobes -^.j in. long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous 

 on both faces, valvate in the bud, spreading or reflexed in full 

 flower ; anthers 4, glabrous, exserted ; disk glabrous ; ovary 

 2-celled, fleshy, campanulate, somewhat compressed ; ovules solitary 

 in the cells, pendulous ; style exserted, glabrous, curved ; stigma 

 calyptriform. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded thickets near the lakelvautala ; fl. end of Feb. 

 1860. No. 3145. In rather dry bushy places between Lopollo and 

 Moninho, sporadic ; fl. March 1 800. No. 3146. 



11. C. sylvaticum Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust climbing tawny-pubescent shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high • 

 branches obtusely quadrangular, at length glabrate ; leaves 

 opposite, oval-oblong, acutely acuminate at the apex, unequal and 

 more or less rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, dark-green 

 glossy and glabrate or with scattered hairs above, reddish (in the 

 dried state) paler and hairy along the principal veins and midrib 

 beneath, 2 to 5 in. long by y to 2 in. broad ; lateral veins 5 to 7 

 on each side of the midrib, rather slender, depressed above, in 

 relief beneath ; petiole ^ to | in. long, more or less hairy ; stipules 

 ovate, much acuminate, hairy on the back, inter pet iolar, g to 

 I in. long, deciduous ; flowers i in. long when expanded exclusive 

 of the exserted style, on short pubescent pedicels, tetramerous, 

 numerous, arranged in pedunculate bracteolate densely paniculate 

 opposite axillary cymes J^ to 1 in. in diameter, yellow-greenish, 

 scarcely fragrant ; common peduncle pubescent, i to j\ in. long ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate or subulate ; calyx about J^ in. long, hairy 

 at the base, the limb glabrous except the ciliolate margin, 4-cleft ; 

 corolla-tube i in. long, cylindrical, glabrous outside, pilose inside; 

 throat bearded ; lobes 4, ovate, obtuse, -^,^ in. long, glabrous ; 

 anthers exserted, glabrous, oblong ; disk glabrous, annular-fleshy ; 

 ovary hairy outside, 2-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells, pendu- 

 lous ; style glabrous, exserted ; stigma mitriform. 



PuNGO Andongo.— In forests near the base of Pedra Cabondo 

 within the praesidium ; fl. April 1857. No. 3134. 



The leaves below the branches are occasionally sub-orbicular and 

 cordate, after the manner of the heterophyllous condition sometimes 

 noticed in species of Polys/ihierca. 



12. C. tenuiflorum Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A shrub, climbing or sarmentose-scandent : trunk not uncom- 

 monly 2 in. in diameter at the base ; branches o})posite, patent, 

 obtusely quadrangular, glabrate, puberulous at the extremities ; 

 bark whitish ; leaves oval-elliptical, acuminate or cuspidate at the 



