Fadogia] LXix. rubiace.*:. 483 



there not stigmatose, greenish as well as the whole style ; berry fleshy, 

 more or less globose, crowned with the cupuliform calyx-limb and with 

 the remains of the disk, typically G- to 8-celled ; the cells one-seeded ; 

 seeds reniform : testa whitish-yellow. In bushy hilly places on a sandy 

 clay soil, between LopoUo and the great lake Ivantala ; fl. and young 

 fr. Jan. 18G0. No. 2567. 



4. F. stenophylla Welw. ex Iliern, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, scarcely a foot high ; rootstock woody ; stems 

 several, erect, occasionally flowering before the expansion of the leaves, 

 of a pretty green colour ; flowers from whitish to violet-purplish, with 

 a violet-blue tinge. In bushy pastures on the right bank of the 

 Lopollo stream, between LopoUo and Catumba, sparingly ; fl. Nov. 

 and Dec. 18r>ii ; fr. I860. No. 2570. 



5. F. lactiflora Welw. ex Hiern, I.e., p. 156. 



HuiLLA. — An erect herb or undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, with the 

 habit of a Fhlomis ; rootstock woody : stems several, strict ; flowers 

 handsome, milk-white ; calyx-teeth rather long ; stigma crown-shaped. 

 In hilly thickets near Lopollo : fl. Jan. 1860 ; fr. April 1860. No. 2569- 



32. CUVIERA DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 112. 



1. C. angolensis Welw. ex K. Schvim. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam., iv. 4, p. 94, fig. 33, J (1891), without descriptive 

 diagnosis. 



A small glabrous pyi-amidal tree, 12 to 20 ft. high, or in 

 cultivated fields (ftrimos) usually only 8 to 12 ft.; sap milky; 

 trunk slender, straight, destitute of branches below, but densely 

 armed mth opposite, decussate, strong, very acute, quite patent 

 spines of 1 to 2 in. in length ; branches and branchlets green, 

 the latter swelled at the nodes ; leaves oblong, opposite, usually 

 cuspidate at the apex, oblique and rounded at the base, papery, 

 smooth, 4 to 9 in. long by 1| to 4 in. broad, dull-green above, 

 paler beneath, those on the older branches pendulous ; petiole 

 ^ to i in. long ; lateral veins about 8 on each side of the midi-ib, 

 rather slender and beneath conspicuous ; stipules sheathing, 

 keeled, acuminate, about § to i in. long ; inflorescence axillary, 

 branched, 2 to 4 in, long, pale yellow-greenish outside throughout 

 except a bright I'osy stellate patch about the naked throat of the 

 corolla ; pedicels very short ; common peduncle ^ to 1 in. long ; 

 bracteoles sub-linear, ranging up to 1 in. in length ; calyx 

 including and adnate to the ovary; tube short, campanulate- 

 ventricose, obtusely 3- to 4-angular, deeply 3- to 5-lobed ; the 

 segments elongate-lanceolate, unequal in length, bractlike, ex- 

 ceeding the corolla, herbaceous-green, 4 to 2 or 3 in. long ; corolla 

 shortly salver-shaped, fleshy-coriaceous, deep herbaceous-green 

 outside ; tube short, bright-red inside, at the base inside with a 

 ring of silvery shining hairs directed downwards; limb 5-cleft, 

 shortly rotate ; segments lanceolate or ovate-acuminate, rigid, 

 green, expanded in a stellate manner in full flower, valvate at 

 the base in aestivation ; the tips long, acuminate or subulate, 

 contorted in the bud ; stamens 5, inserted in the sinuses of the 



