Dictyandra| LXIX, RUBIACE. 457 
white obtusely 5-lobed elevated cup-shaped disk ; stamens 5, inserted 
at the corolla-throat, exserted ; filaments obsolete ; anthers sessile, 
lanceolate-linear or ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed, acuminate at 
the apex, several-celled ; the cells 40 to 50, arranged in four rows 
along the whole internal face of the anther ; ovary covered by the 
calyx, 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell ; style thick, cylin- 
drical, narrowed at both ends, left far exserted by the turning back of 
the corolla-limb, densely white-pilose except the base, deeply bifid at 
the apex, with subulate lobes. In elevated forests and wooded slopes 
among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta; fl.-bud June and 
beginning of Aug. 1855; fl. Nov. 10th, 1855; in Mata de Quisucula, 
ripe fr. end of April 1856. Native name “ Mungolo oamxi.” No. 2561. 
A moderate-sized tree with evergreen leaves. Virgin forest of Qui- 
sucula; fr. April 1856. CouL. Carp. 640. <A tree, 25 to 35 ft. high; 
trunk 8 to 12 in. in diameter ; structure of the anthers remarkable, 
honeycombed ; berries resembling in shape the fruit of Psidium. 
Among the. mountains of Central Queta. CoLL. Carr. 641 and 6418. 
17. TARENNA Gaertn. Fruct. i. p. 139, t. 28, f. 3 (1788). 
Webera Schreb. (1791); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 86. 
Chomelia L. Gen. Pl, edit. 1, p. 55 (1737), non Jacq. (1760). 
1. T. congensis Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 91. 
Chomelia congensis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 278 (1891). 
Gotunco ALTo.—A copiously leafy tree of moderate size, with 
very patent almost horizontal branches ; calyx 5-toothed ; berries 
purplish, rather dry, 2-celled, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes ; 
the cells with about six or seven peltate seeds. In elevated forests, 
2800 ft. alt. on Mount Cungulungulo ; fr. Feb. 1855. No. 2575. 
18. RANDIA Houst. ex L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 88. 
1. R. lucidula Hiern, sp. n. 
A bush 6 to 8 ft. high, or a small tree with spreading elongated 
and often sub-sarmentose nodding branches, glabrous and rather 
glossy in most parts; leaves opposite, oval or oblong, acuminate 
at the apex, obtuse or sub-cuneate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 
2 to Tin. long by 1 to 22 in. broad, pallid at least beneath ; 
lateral veins slender, about five to seven on each side of the 
midrib; petiole + to 4 in. long; stipules lanceolate or ovate, 
tapering into a subulate apex, about as long as the petiole, 
deciduous ; flowers about 2 in. long just before expansion, penta- 
merous, on pedicels of 4 to 7 in. long, arranged in many-flowered 
axillary bracteolate cymes about an inch in diameter ; bracteoles 
ovate or lanceolate, ciliolate, small, deciduous; calyx-limb cup- 
shaped, nearly glabrous, 3 in. long, broader than the ovary, 
truncate with five minute ciliolate teeth ; corolla whitish, 5-cleft ; 
the lobes more or less clothed outside with a pale, very closely 
adpressed felt, spreading or reflexed in flower, glabrous or nearly 
so inside, 3 in. long, ovate, obtuse contorted in the bud ; throat 
naked, or nearly so; anthers exserted, linear; style exserted in 
consequence of the turning back of the corolla-lobes, clavate 
above, a little glandular; fruit globose, } to 4 inch in diameter, 
marked with the scar of the calyx-limb, 2-celled. 
