458 LXI. RUBIACES. [Randia 
GoLtuneo ALTo.—A small tree, with dirty-white flowers. In. the 
more elevated forests of Serra de Alto Queta, rather rare ; fl. May 
1855. No. 3093. A bush of 6 to 8 ft., perhaps a young tree ; flowers 
whitish. In the elevated forests of Sobato de Quilombo, Quiacatubia, 
sparingly and sporadic ; young fr. and few fl. Feb. 1855. No. 30930. 
CazENGo.—A bush as tall asa man ; flowers white. Leaves at the 
time of the flower nearly always devoured by insects. In the more 
elevated forests of Serra de Muxaéulo (Musch4ulo) ; fl. and sparse fr. 
Jan. 1855. No. 3092. 
Seems near R. micrantha K. Schum. 
2. R. genipeeflora DC. Prodr. iv. p. 389 (1830); Hiern in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop, Afr. iii. p. 95. 
Of. R. Quintasii K.Schum. in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot.x. p. 127 (1892). 
IsLanp or St. THomMas.—Mucumba, Dec. 1860. The specimen is 
without either fl. or fr., and therefore the determination is very doubt- 
ful. The leaves are ternate on the specimen, two being opposite and 
the third axillary, oval, papery, glabrous except small tufts of short 
hairs in the axils of the 6 pairs of slender veins on the lower face, 
6 in. long by 23 in. broad; petiole + in. long, slender ; internodes 
about 3 in. long ; branchlets sub-terete, glabrescent ; stipules caducous, 
deltoid or lanceolate. No. 3097. 
3, R. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A tree, 10 to 25 ft. high; trunk ranging up to 18 in. in 
diameter, straight, erect; head ovoid or obovoid, evergreen ; 
branches pallid, patent; branchlets sometimes reddish, glabres- 
cent ; leaves elliptical or somewhat obovate, cuspidate-acuminate 
at the apex, wedge-shaped or obtuse and unequal at the base, 
opposite or verticillate, 2 to 4 together, glabrous except the prin- 
cipal veins beneath, pallid on both faces, rather glossy above, 
coriaceous, often minutely punctate, 2 to 63 in. long by 2 to 3 in. 
broad ; lateral veins 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, depressed 
on the upper face, raised often a little hairy and slightly reddish 
on the lower face; petiole 4 to + in. long, hairy or glabrate ; 
stipules ovate or lanceolate, glabrate at the back, acute, entire, 
rather exceeding the petiole, deciduous; flowers whitish, silky- 
tomentose outside, 13 to 2 in. long before expansion, about 1 to: 
1+ in. long when expanded, arranged several together in very 
abbreviated axillary bracteolate cymes ; calyx ito 4 in. long; the 
limb cup-shaped, with 5 lanceolate acute rather unequal lobes 
about as long as the tube; corolla-tube slender, about an inch 
long, slightly widening upwards, glabrous inside; lobes lanceo- 
late-oblong, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from above) in the bud, 
spreading in flower, glabrous inside, white or occasionally rosy ; 
throat glabrous ; anthers narrowly linear, glabrous, 2 in. long, 
exserted, dorsifixed, inserted on very short slender filaments a 
little below the throat of the corolla and about one-third above 
the base of the anther; ovary 2-celled; style exserted, glabrescent, 
bidentate at the stigmatose apex ; fruit globose-pyriform, puberu- 
lous, } in. in diameter, crowned with the erect persistent calyx- 
limb ; seeds few, about 3 in. long, with rounded angles. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In wooded situations between Catete and Luxillo, 
