492 LXix. RUBiACE.i:. YRutidea 



outside, glabrous inside, cHiate, with lanceolate-linear sub-acicular 

 segments; corolla-tube slender, f to |^ in. long, thinly hairy out- 

 side, glabrous inside ; the limb deeply 5-cleft, spreading ; the 

 lobes lanceolate or ovate, pointed, i in. long ; anthers 5, inserted 

 near the middle of their backs on shorter filaments about the 

 throat of the corolla, alternating with its lobes, yV to -^ in. long, 

 linear-oblong, glabrous, erect, half exserted ; disk narrow, fleshy, 

 glabrous, annular; ovary 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; ovules on fleshy 

 placentas ; style glabrous, slender, reaching nearly as high as the 

 anthers, narrowly clavate and stigmatose towards the entire apex ; 

 berries globose, i in. diameter or rather larger, rather dry, 

 glabrous, crowned with the persistent hirsute erect calyx-limb, 

 1 -celled, 1 -seeded ; seed globose, about ^ in. diameter ; albumen 

 deeply ruminated. 



PuNGO Andongo. — By thickets along streams near Cazella within 

 the praesidium, rather sparingly : fl. and fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3166- 

 In similar places ; fl. middle of Nov. 1856, rather rare. A form with 

 the corolla-tube abbreviated, f in. iong (half as long as in the previous 

 No.). No. 3167. 



38. MORINDA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 117. 



1. M. citrifolia L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 176 (1753); HierninOliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 191. 



Var. lucida Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 406 (1849) (sp.). 



Barra do Ben'go. — A small tree in the form of a bush with 

 branches hanging down and with white flowers. In palm-groves by 

 the river Bengo, near Santo Antonio ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1853. 

 No. 4765. 



GoLUN(;o Alto. — A beautiful leafy tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, remark- 

 able for the peculiar lustre of its foliage and the abundance of its 

 white fragrant flowers ; trunk a foot in diameter at the base ; 

 branches spreading ; branchlets nodding-ascending ; leaves coriaceous. 

 At the borders of palm-groves along the banks of the river Delamboa, 

 rather rare ; fl. and young fr. May 1855. No. 4754. A small tree. 

 Compare also with the next species. Coll. Carp. 658. 



Prince's Island. — A small tree, apparently evergreen : branches 

 patent, red ; branchlets and leaves bright-green ; flowers whitish, 

 fleshy. In forests about Pico Papagaio ; fr. Sept. 1 853. Native name 

 "Guigo.' No. 4756. 



According to a note of Welwitsch, the name of this tree in Golungo 

 Alto is '■ N-golo-mugi," and its trunk reaches the size of 2\ to 3 ft. in 

 diameter, especially in the virgin forests of Capopa : the timber is 

 generally used by the negroes for the building of their huts. 



2. M. longiflora G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 545 (1834); Hiern, I.e. 

 Golungo Alto. — A subscandent evergreen shrub ; leaves and 



flowers more or less fleshy ; flowers completely herbaceous-green 

 except the internal face of the corolla-lobes which is snow-white. 

 Near Ponte de Felix Simoes, sparingly ; fl. Nov. 1854. No. 4757. A 

 shrub, sometimes prostrate with the flowering branchlets ascending, in 

 other cases cUmbing with the branches and branchlets hanging down ; 

 flowers hexamerous, very sweetly fragrant, scented like jessamine ; 

 calyces concrete at the base, diverging in a radiating manner from one 



