436 LXIX, RUBIACES. [Ourouparia 
branches patent, fuscous, rather glossy, tetragonal, leaves 
opposite, elliptical, narrowly acuminate at the apex, obtusely 
narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, glossy, 
dark-green above, paler beneath, 2 to 44 in. long, $ to 1% in. 
broad ; lateral veins about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender ; 
petiole 3 to 3 in. long; stipules ovate, small, somewhat hairy on 
the inner face, early deciduous ; spines axillary, mostly crooked, 
q to 2 in. long; flower-heads terminating the branches, shortly 
pedunculate, globose, about 2 in. in diameter; flowers golden- 
tawny, about ? to Z in. long (including the exserted style), very 
numerous, crowded ; pedicels about 4 to 3 in. long in flower, 
8 in. long in fruit, tomentellous; bracts 0 ; calyx silky-tomentellous 
with short upward hairs, somewhat constricted above the ovary, 
greenish-fuscous; tube broader than the ovary, campanulate, 
funnel-shaped, + to 4+ in. long, shortly 5-cleft, lobes thickly 
lanceolate ; corolla 4 to 3 in. long ; tube slender, except the base 
clothed outside with downward tawny short silky-tomentose 
hairs, 3 in. long; limb much broader than the tube, hemi- 
spherical, 4 to 3 in. in diameter, golden-tawny tomentose outside, 
glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed; segments about 4 in. long, 
obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex with an apiculus; stamens 
5, about half as long as the corolla-lobes, glabrous, introrse, 
inserted on short flattened filaments at the base of the corolla- 
limb ; ovary ellipsoidal, tomentose, rather thicker than the base of 
the calyx-limb, much thinner than the top of the calyx-limb ; style 
filiform, exserted about } in. beyond the corolla, glabrous below, 
stigmatose and rather thickened in the upper part towards the 
clavate stigma; young fruit subglabrous, about 3 in. long, 2 in. 
thick, narrowed at both ends especially towards the base. 
GoLunco ALTo.—In the primitive forests of Sobato de Mussengue, 
rather rare ; fl. middle Feb. ; young fr. March 1856. No. 3080. In 
the very dense primitive forest of Quibanga, sporadic ; fl.-bud, Jan. 
1856. No. 3031. 
4, HYMENODICTYON Wall.; Benth. &Hook. f. Gen. PLii.p. 35. 
1. H. Kurria Hochst. in Flora xxvi. p. 71 (1843); Hiern in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 42. 
Punco ANDoNnco.—A small tree of 8 to 10 ft.; trunk straight, 
4 to 5 in. in diameter near the base; head dense, hemispherical ; 
leaves thickly coriaceous, rather rigid, almost membranous in the 
dried state, subglaucous-green, the new ones very large; marginal 
glands of the stipules clavate, thick, turning red; bracts below the 
racemes 2 together, lanceolate, almost like those in Tilia, dry, on long 
stalks. In rocky shady parts of the presidium, Barranco da Pedra 
Songue at the banks of the Ca-Salalé not common ; fl. Nov. 1856 ; fr. 
March and May 1857. No. 3032. 
Var. tomentellum (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 
A small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high; head ovoid-globose, lax; 
branches erect-spreading, somewhat twisted; leaves canescent- 
tomentose beneath, crowded towards the extremities of the 
branchlets ; flowers from whitish to yellowish, slightly fragrant, 
