Oldenlandia] LXIX. RUBIACEA. 441 
herbaceous exposed elevated situations at Empalanca; fl. and fr. 
April 1860. No. 3082. 
3. 0. sipaneoides K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 417. 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect or ascending tender herb ; leaves deep- 
green, membranous ; flowers beautifully azure-blue. In the caves of 
the elevated rocks of Tunda Quilombo within the ‘presidium, fl. and 
fr. Jan. 1857. (Capsule dehiscing loculicidally at the apex; seeds 
numerous, angular.) No. 3075. 
Var. asperuloides Hiern. 
A weak, slender, erect, herbaceous-green, sub-glaucescent, 
annual herb, with the habit of an Asperula, 3 to 8 in, high, 
simple or with a few spreading or ascending branches, glabrate 
except the youngest parts ; stem quadrangular or towards the base 
two-edged ; internodes longer than the leaves; leaves ovate or 
lanceolate, sub-apiculate, not acuminate, broad near the cuneate 
base, thinly membranous, with 4 or 5 slender not conspicuous 
veins on each side of the slender midrib, } to 1 in. long by + to 
3 in, broad; petiole =, to Z in. long, spreading, slender ; stipules 
from a broad shortly sheathing base narrowed into a long subulate- 
acuminate ciliolate apex, rather shorter than the petiole ; inflores- 
cence terminal axillary or opposite to a leaf, slender, simple or 
somewhat branched, usually with a subsessile flower at the point 
of dichotomy or subspicate, few-flowered, ranging up to about an 
inch long; pedicels mostly very short, but ranging up to 3 in. 
long ; bracteoles very small, subulate ; flowers azure-blue, } to 2 in. 
long; calyx-limb 4-partite, 4, to J; in. long in flower, enlarging 
to 4 to % in. long in fruit, persistent; segments sub-linear in 
flower, slightly spathulate in fruit, equal or nearly so ; corolla-tube 
slender, salver-shaped, i in. long, straight; limb quadrifid, funnel- 
shaped, 4 in. in diameter; stamens 4; anthers linear-oblong, just 
exserted at the mouth of the corolla, dorsifixed near the base ; 
filaments very slender, about as long as the anthers ; style exserted 
rather beyond the anthers; ovary campanulate, shorter than the 
calyx-limb ; capsule depresso-globose, somewhat flattened, 2-celled. 
Punco ANnDONGO.—In very shady caves at the summit of the ranges 
of rocks within the presidium, in company with Begonia rostrata 
Welw. ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3076. 
4. 0. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A hispid-pubescent perennial herb, 6 to 12 in. high ; rootstock 
thick, woody, branched, giving off from its crown numerous stems 
spreading in all directions ; stems simple or branched above, rather 
slender, somewhat quadrangular and between the angles sulcate ; 
leaves ovate or lanceolate, apiculate at the apex, obtusely narrowed 
or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, herbaceous- 
green, rather dull, with 3 to 6 inconspicuous lateral veins on each 
side of the midrib, 4 to 14 in. long by 4 to 4 in. broad ; petioles 
ranging up to 4 in. long, spreading ; stipules truncate, pluri-setose ; 
flowers at first whitish, turning azure-blue, 4 to 2 in. long, arranged 
in compound terminal hemispherical cymes of about an inch in 
diameter; ultimate pedicels short or very short; calyx-limb 
