440 LXIX, RUBIACEE. [Pentacarpoa 
oval, pointed or obtuse at the apex, usually rounded at the sessile 
or subsessile base, yellowish-green, minutely scaly on both faces, 
thinly scattered with short whitish hairs especially along the veins 
on the lower face, 1 to 24 in. long by 3 to 1 in. broad; lateral 
veins 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib; stipules narrowly lanceo- 
late, often with supplementary lateral filiform segments; inflores- 
cence terminal, pedunculate, in compact branched small cymes, 
about 1 in. in diameter, the main branches somewhat lengthening 
in a spicate manner 1 to 2 in. long in fruit; flowers red, sessile or 
subsessile, 2 in. long; calyx somewhat hairy or ciliate; tube 5 
in. long, the foliaceous lobe 3 in. long or on the fruit 7 in. long; 
corolla-tube somewhat hairy outside; limb + in. in diameter ; 
lobes somewhat unequal, oval-ovate; anthers glabrous, included ; 
style shortly exserted, glabrous ; fruit } to 4 in. long exclusive of 
the persistent foliaceous calyx-lobe at the apex. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—In sandy situations at the skirts of the forest, 
near Lombe and Candumba; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5312. 
9. OTOMERIA Benth.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 55. 
1. 0. dilatata Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 50. 
O. speciosa Scott Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxxii. p. 437 (1896), 
quoad specimina Welwitschiana citata nn, 5316, 5317. 
Hviiia.—F lowers purple-red, somewhat like a Lychnis. At the 
cataract of Ferrio da Sola; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 5316. An 
undershrub or almost a herb, 2 to 24 ft. high or rarely taller, with the 
habit of a Lychnis ; stems purple ; flowers brilliantly bloodred-scarlet ; 
calyx-segments unequal, narrow with some broader but none ever 
elliptical or dilated-cordiform as in true Mussenda. At the cataracts 
between Humpata and Lopollo, in elevated stations, about 5000 ft, 
high, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 2 Jan. 1860. No. 5317. 
10. OLDENLANDIA Plum., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 58. 
Hedyotis L.; Benth. & Hook. f., dc. p. 56. Pentodon Hochst. ; 
Benth. & Hook. f., le. p. 58. 
1. 0. Bojeri Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 53. 
Punco AnponGo.—A perennial herb; rootstock woody ; stems 
numerous, erect or ascending ; flowers whitish-purplish, scarcely or but 
little projecting beyond the bracts of the capitate cymes. In wooded 
thickets and in exposed sandy places near Cazella and Luxillo ; fl. and 
fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3080. This is difficult to discriminate from the 
next species ; possibly both species occur mixed under this No. 
2. 0. globosa Hiern, Zc., p. 54. 
GoLtuneo ALTo.—A perennial herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, strictly erect, 
pallid-green ; rootstock woody ; stems numerous ; flowers whitish. On 
very elevated declivities among the mountains of Quilombo-Quiaca- 
tubia, rather rare ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3221. A herb, 1 to 13 ft. high, 
roughly pilose, perennial, erect, rigid, with the habit of Melastomacez. 
On the sparingly grassy slopes of the more elevated ridges of the 
mountains of Queta, above N-dele ; young fr. end of March 1856. 
No. 3222. ; 
HuiiLa.—Flowers small, white. In hilly exposed places ; fl, and fr. 
Dec. 1859. No. 3081. Flowers from whitish to pale purplish. In 
