Mussenda] LXIX, RUBIACEA. 453 
small; calyx hispid-tomentose ; tube campanulate-oblong, about 
; in. long, tipped with 4 erect half-oval or oblong obtuse lobes 
zz to} in. long, and usually with one or two milk-white or 
sulphur-whitish foliaceous obovate-oblong or sub-orbicular some- 
what hispid-pubescent enlarged lobe about 2 in. long, but some- 
times all the 5 calyx-teeth are quite equal ; corolla yellow, narrowly 
salver-shaped, hispid-tomentose with downward hairs outside ; 
tube about 7 to 1 in. long; limb about 3 in. in diameter; fruit 
ellipsoidal, shortly hipsidulous or subglabrate, about } to 2 in. long, 
crowned with the remains of the calyx-teeth. 
Hvitia.—In dense forests by cataracts near Lopollo, very abundant, 
in company with Epilobium hirsutum L., Osmunda regalis L., and 
species of Rumex, Blyxa, Eriocaulon, etc. ; fl. and fr. almost during 7 
months, Dec. 1859, Jan. and 5 April 1860. No. 1118, and Co... Carp. 9. 
Related to 1. Afzelii G. Don, but with longer calyx-teeth. 
2. M. arcuata am. ex Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Méth. iv. p. 392 
(1796) ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 68. 
CazENGO,—In rather elevated bushy situations from Dalatanda 
towards the confines of the district of AmBaca, at about 2000 ft. alt., 
sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1855. No. 1121. 
Puneo ANDonGo.—A twining scandent shrub, 3 to 5 ft. long, 
resembling a jessamine in its habit and flowers; stems numerous 
from the crown of the root, sometimes standing erect but mostly 
climbing as well as the branches ;_ branchlets erect-spreading ; leaves 
opposite, evergreen, thinly coriaceous, lurid-green ; stipules gradually 
acuminate from a broad base, rather fleshy; flowers pentamerous, 
handsome, shining with a golden hue ; calyx-teeth all equal, lanceolate, 
subulate or acute, persistent, crowning the fruit ; corolla golden-yellow, 
shining ; lobes obovate; tube cylindrical, double as long as the lobes, 
densely pilose inside on the upper part, rather naked towards the base ; 
throat tawny-bearded ; style reaching the middle of the corolla-tube ; 
stigma bilobed, the lobes obovate-oblong, somewhat flattened ; fruit 
baccate. In wooded moist sandy secondary thickets between Luxillo 
and Cazella ; fl. 6 Jan. 1857. No. 1120. In wooded thickets near the 
cataract of Condo, sporadic and rather rare; fl. and young fr. March 
1857. No. 11208. 
3. M. tenuiflora Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 392 (1849); 
Hiern, Uc, p. 69. ; 
GoLunco ALTo.—A very elegant shrub, scandent, with long sarmen- 
tose branches ; bark fuscous-whitish; branches and branchlets flexuous- 
tortuous ; leaves more or less cuspidate at the apex, shortly attenuate 
or rounded at the base; calyx green, the enlarged lobe foliaceous, 
white, soon turning a whitish-sulphur colour ; corolla-tube yellow- 
greenish ; the limb especially inside coloured brilliant-orange, sub- 
velutinous ; the throat shaggy and closed with long golden-coloured 
hairs. In primitive forests among the mountains of Serra de Alto 
Queta, sporadic; fl. end of Dec. 1855; fr. April and June 1856. No. 1117. 
Our specimens differ from the type by a less hispid exterior of the 
corolla-tube, by subglabrate fruit, etc. 
4, M. erythrophylla Schum. & Thonn.in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 
iii. p. 136 (1828); Hiern, Z.c. ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 198 (1884). 
M. splendida Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvii. p. 36, t. 13 (1869). 
