CoJ'ea] LXIX. RUBlACEyE. 491 



on the left-hand side of the Ambaca road ; fl. end of Oct. 1855. A 

 shrub very well worth cultivating for the sake of the elegance and 

 fragrance of its flowers. No. 2572. A subscandent shrub. In wooded 

 thickets near Bango ; fr. No. 3172. Calyx hidden by surrounding 

 scales, adnate to the base of the petiole. In dense forests on the 

 northern slopes of Serra de Alto Queta ; few nearly ripe fr. end of 

 Nov. 1855. Differing from the common form of the species by its 

 leaves being rather more coriaceous, apparently mostly verticillate in 

 fours, and occasionally rounded at the apex. No. 3173. 



37. RUTIDEA DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 116. 



1. R. Smithii llievu in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 189. 



Var. Welwitschii Elliot in Jonrn. Linn. See. xxx. p. 82 (1894). 



GoLUNCio Alto. — A shrub 4 to G ft. ; branches sarmentose, quite 

 patent, slender, flagelliform-elongated, twisted, flexuous, almost scan- 

 dent, sustained by other shrubs ; pith jointed in the manner of a 

 Conferva ; leaves rigidly chartaceous, deciduous ; flowers white, slightly 

 fragrant ; calyx bracteolate at the base, campanulate, crowned with 

 5 obtuse erect teeth ; corolla white, salver-shaped : the limb 5-cleft, 

 reflexed, beset at the throat on the upper part of the tube inside 

 with whitish erect-spreading pilose hairs ; stamens 5, inserted at the 

 throat, exserted by the turning back of the corolla-limb ; anthers 

 linear, acuminate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, dorsifixed ; disk 

 cupuliform, rather high ; ovary included in the calyx ; style filiform, 

 central, far exserted, beset on the lower included part with thin hairs, 

 thickly clavate towards the apex, split and stigmatose at the apex ; 

 berries orange-scarlet, as large as a peppercorn or a very small pea. 

 In dense thickets and rather dense forests from Sange to the streams 

 Gate and Casaballa and in hilly situations on the right bank of the 

 river Delamboa, abundant : fl.-bud from the beginning of Nov. 1854 

 to 5 Jan. 1855, constantly in the same condition, and May 1855 ■ fl 

 Oct. and Nov. 1855 ; fr. Sept. and Oct. 1854. No. 3168. 



2. R. hirsuta Hiern, sp. n. 



A slender shrub, climbing far and high, with the habit of 

 an Ophion'hiza ; stems weak, sub-terete, pallid, glabra te below, 

 hirsute above with spreading or deflexed somewhat tawny hairs ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous or snb-membranous, rather rigid, opposite, 

 oval or sub-elliptical, rounded obtuse or narrowed and apiculate at 

 the apex, rounded or subcordate and unequal at tho l)ase, bright 

 green on both faces, glabrate except along the narrowly depressed 

 mich-ib above and except the raised midrib and the 6 or 7 lateral 

 veins on each side of it beneath, 3 to 6 in. long by li to 3 in. 

 broad; petiole i to | in. long, hirsute; stipules supra'petiolar, 

 with a prolonged subulate hirsute apex from a short broad base, 

 \ to I in. long ; flowers \ to 1 in. long, greenish with the corolla- 

 limb more deeply green-yellowish inside, sessile, a few together 

 arranged in small bracteolate lieads arranged in biacbiate or sub- 

 spicate pyramidal terminal bi-acteate cymes 2 to 3 in. long on a 

 common peduncle of about the same length ; bracts sub-acicular 

 and hirsute or sometimes sub-foliaceous ; bracteoles sub-acicular, 

 smaller, hirsute ; calyx 1 in. long, hirsute outside, at the base 

 with 2 subacicxilar bracteoles of j^. in. in length ; the tube funnel- 

 shaped, small ; the limb deeply 5-partite, j\j to |- in. long, hirsute 



