Hymenodictyon| LXIX, RUBIACEA. 437 
Huiiia.—In the more elevated wooded rocky but little shady parts 
of Morro de Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1859 ; fr. March 1860. No. 3033. 
5, CORYNANTHE Welw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL. ii. p. 36. 
1. C. paniculata Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 37, t. 14 
(1869); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 43; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
p. 194, 
Rubiacea, Welw. Synopse Expl. p. 7, n. 2 (1862). 
GoLunco ALTO.—A very useful and magnificent tree, 40 to 60 ft. 
high, with the habit of Phillyrea latifolia L.; trunk straight, very 
rarely bent, 1 to 24 ft. in diameter near the base ; wood very dense, 
excellent, of fine grain, white, hard, durable, used in house building and 
for many other purposes ; branches rather erect, the lower ones usually 
directed downwards on the adult tree, leaves opposite, coriaceous, but 
little glossy (or in the dried state glossy-green above), evergreen ; 
flowers thyrsoid, collected in terminal panicles, white, slightly fragrant, 
much frequented by bees, rather fleshy ; calyx oblong-campanulate, 
green, 5-toothed, inferior, persistent, including the ovary; corolla white, 
hypocrateriform, shaggy at the throat, spreading in flower, with a fleshy 
subturbinate tube inserted on the throat of the calyx, with a 5-cleft 
limb and gibbous ovate lobes valvate in sestivation, and having a long 
club-like whitish appendage below their hooded tops ; stamens 5, alter- 
nating with the corolla-lobes, exserted ; filaments sub-obsolete ; anthers 
rigid, fleshy, linear-oblong, subsessile at the throat of the corolla, 
2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, attached at the middle of the back ; 
cells a little diverging below, subulate and empty at the apex ; ovary 
ovoid-conical ; style thickly filiform, central, filling the whole cavity of 
the corolla-tube, exserted at the time of flowering, white; stigma 
ovoid, obtuse, thick, rather compressed, longitudinally furrowed, 
white ; capsule fuscous, bi-sulcate, mucronate with the persistent 
calyx-teeth. Forming extensive forests in nearly all the more elevated 
parts of Quilombo and Mata de Alto Queta ; fl. Jan. to May, fr. 
March to July, 1855 and 1856 ; about Montalegre (Cungulungulo), 
Feb. 1855. Native name ‘‘ Mangue,” the Portuguese name is “‘ Mangue 
do Monte” or “ Paco de Golungo Alto.” No. 1508. 
It oceurs also in similar situations in the districts of CazENGO and 
EMBOS, On the bark of this tree grew the Lichens nn. 130, 139, and on 
its wood the Fungus n. 366. 
6. CROSSOPTERYX Fenzl; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 41. 
1. C. Kotschyana Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. (vi.) p. 46 (1839) : 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iti, p. 44; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 194 
1884). 
C. africana Baill. Hist. Pl. vii. p. 489 (1879). Rubiacea, Welw. 
Apont. p. 590 [n. 96]. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—A loosely branched tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 
4 to 6 in. in diameter near the base ; branches elongated, erect-spread- 
ing ; branchlets dilatate-flattened at the nodes from which the inflores- 
cence arises ; leaves bright-green, sub-tomentose beneath, deciduous ; 
capsule 2-valved, dehiscing at the apex, 2-celled ; cells many-seeded ; 
seeds surrounded with a fringed wing. In rough places at the borders 
of the primitive forests of Alto Queta ; scarcely ripe fr. June 1856. 
No. 3084. A shrub of 12 ft., with spreading branches, and leaves 
deciduous at the time of fruiting. Structure of the fruit very curious. 
At Catomba ; fr. July 1856, Cou. Carp. 633. 
