Randia] LXIX. RUBIACEA. 459 
within the presidium; fl. April 1857. No. 3096. In the shady 
wooded parts of Barranco de Songue ; fl. and fr. end of May 1857. 
No. 3096. In forests at the base of gigantic rocks near Luxillo, 
rather rare ; young fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3096c. 
4. R, violascens Hiern, sp. n. 
A small tree, 6 to 9 ft. high, trunk + to } ft. in diameter; 
branches divaricate; branchlets tawny-tomentose, obtusely 
angular: leaves opposite or verticillate 3 together, elliptical, 
acutely cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, unequally wedge-shaped 
at the base, firmly membranous, with scattered pubescence on 
both faces, 3 to 5 in. long by 14 to 22 in. broad, flat, very 
narrowly revolute on the margin, deep-green above, paler-green 
beneath ; lateral veins 7 to 10 on each side of the midrib, starting 
at about 45°; petiole about 3 in. long, densely tawny-pubes- 
cent; stipules subulate-cuspidate from a broad ovate base, 
deciduous, rather exceeding the petiole ; flowers axillary, solitary, 
subsessile, 21 to 2? in. long, pentamerous ; calyx-limb about 1 in. 
long, pubescent outside, the tube about 3 in. long, broadly sub- 
cylindrical, rather wider upwards; teeth 5, subulate from a short 
broad ovate base, about or nearly 4 in. long, somewhat unequal, 
pubescent with tawny hairs ; corolla salver-shaped, rather fleshy, 
2 to 21 in. long when expanded, tomentose outside, whitish, 
slightly turning a violet colour, the lower half narrowly cylindrical, 
the upper funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, ovate, acute, ? to 1 in. long, 
revolute, shortly tomentose on both faces, 3 to 3 in. broad at the 
base; anthers 5, linear, glabrous, exserted; filaments very short, 
glabrous, inserted at the throat of the corolla; style shortly 
exserted, glabrous, cleft near the apex. 
Bumpo.—In the more elevated forests of Serra de Chella, at an 
elevation of 3500 to 4000 ft., sporadic and rather rare ; fl. June 1860. 
No. 2580. 
5. R. terniflora Ficalho & Hiern. ms. 
A bush or small tree, 3 to 8 ft. high, with the habit almost of 
a Magnolia; trunk 14 to 2 in. in diameter when the plant is 4 
to 5 ft. high; branches lax, erect-spreading; branchlets thick, 
obtusely tetragonal, reddish, marked with large scars of fallen 
leaves, densely leafy and shortly tomentose at the tip, quickly 
glabrate; leaves opposite, obovate or elliptical, obtuse pointed or 
cuspidate at the apex, more or less narrowed at the base, glabrate, 
thickly coriaceous, very rigid, minutely squamulose-punctulate, 
subglaucous-green beneath, the adult ones deep-green above, 2 to 
8 in. long by 2 to 34 in. broad ; lateral veins 7 to 9 on each side 
of the midrib in clear relief beneath ; petioles short or very short, 
ranging up 4 in.; stipules cuspidate from a short broad base, 
caducous ; flowers campanulate-salver-shaped, 2 to 24 in. long, 
handsome, arranged in opposite abbreviated sessile terminal 3- to 
1-flowered cymes, spreading or drooping; pedicels very short, 
shortly tomentose, bracteolate ; bracteoles small, ovate, shortly 
tomentose ; calyx (including the ovary) about 4 in. long, the limb 
1 to 4 in. long, cup-shaped, shortly tomentose on both faces, 
