Oldentandia] LXIX. RUBIACEA, 451 
14 in. in diameter ; ultimate pedicels very short ; calyx-segments 
lanceolate, acute, about equalling the tube of the corolla, per- 
sistent ; corolla elongate-campanulate, from milk-white to azure- 
blue ; lobes valvate in the bud, erect-spreading in open flower ; 
ovary campanulate, green; fruit 2-celled, depresso-globose, some- 
what compressed. 
GoLunco ALtTo.—On herbaceous slopes on the right bank of 
the river Delamboa and at the back of Rodrigo’s house ; fl. and fr. 
24 March 1856. No. 53806. At the skirts of primitive forests in the 
deep valleys of Mount Cungulungula, rather rare; fl. and fr. Feb. 
1855. No. 5807. 
Punco Axponco.—In grassy wooded parts of the island Calemba 
in the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. 12 March 1857. No. 5305. 
31. 0. golungensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect or ascending, sparingly branched, apparently annual 
herb, 18 to 24 in. high; stem slender, obtusely quadrangular, 
furrowed, shortly pubescent at least along the furrows; leaves 
elliptical or more or less lanceolate, gradually or abruptly 
narrowed at both ends, membranous, puberulous, green and 
rather shining above, paler beneath, 1} to 24 in. long by 2 to 
1,4, in. broad ; lateral veins slender, 5 or 6 on each side of the 
midrib; petiole 4 to 4 in. long, shortly pubescent; stipules broad, 
truncate, tipped with several long subulate teeth ; flowers several 
together, clustered in terminal pedunculate heads; peduncle 
rather long; pedicels very short; heads small, 3 in. in diameter, 
bracteate at the base; bracts sub-linear, puberulous, ciliate, 
about as long as the head; bracteoles similar, smaller; capsules 
puberulous, campanulate, 4 in. long, crowned with the persistent 
small subulate calyx-teeth, 2-valved, many-seeded ; seeds reddish 
brown, punctate, with rounded angles. 
Gotuneo ALToO.—No notes. No. 3083. 
11. JUSTENIA Hiern, gen. nov. 
Calyx-tube short, adnate, campanulate and somewhat com- 
pressed:in flower, subglobose in fruit ; limb 5-partite ; lobes linear, 
persistent. Corolla-tube very short; limb deeply 5-lobed; lobes 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, subulate, valvate in estivation, induplicate- 
valvate towards the apex, apparently erect in open flower ; throat 
avoolly ; anthers 5, linear-lanceolate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudi- 
nally, apiculate at the apex, shortly sagittate or lobed at the 
base, dorsified near the base, subsessile at the throat between 
the bases of the lobes of the corolla. Disk elevated, epigynous, 
compact, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled ; style from the centre of the 
disk cylindrical, pubescent, soon gradually thickened and club- 
shaped; stigma thick, laminated, the lamina vertical, very thin, 
whitish-pellucid, contorted; ovules numerous, inserted on the 
thin placentas. Fruit pea-shaped, indehiscent, globose or slightly 
compressed and furrowed down two opposite sides, completely or 
incompletely 2-celled, Seeds numerous, angular. 
A climbing shrub, with opposite shortly petiolate thinly 
