Randia| LXIX, RUBIACES, 461 
ternate, coriaceous, varnished-glossy on both faces, paler beneath, 
subrevolute on the margin, broadly undulate ; flowers not then seen ; 
July 1855. No. 3094c. 
7. R. macrantha DO. Prodr. iv. p. 388 (1830) ; Hiern, é.c., p. 97. 
Gotunco AutTo.—A small tree of 8 to 12 feet, patently branched ; 
branchlets curved-ascending ; leaves crowded at the extremities of the 
branchlets, membranous, tender, the younger ones reddish or violet- 
purple ; calyx-tube covering the ovary, cylindric-turbinate, green ; 
the limb 5-partite, marked at the bottom of the segments with 10 
scars; disk moderately elevated. In the more elevated very dense 
forests of Mata de Quisucula, rather rare ; young fr. 28 April 1856. 
No. 3105. 
19. GARDENIA Ellis, L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 89. 
Decameria Welw. Apont. p. 579, note 12. 
1. G. Jovis-tonantis Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 101; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 198 (1884). 
Decameria Jovis-tonantis Welw. Apont. p. 579, Nota 12, and 
Synopse Explic. p. 10, n. 20, and p. 18, n. 44. 
GoLunGco ALTo.—A small evergreen tree, 5 to 8 feet high, nearly 
always in flower, very rigid in all its parts ; branches branchlets and 
leaves ternate, patent ; wood very hard ; flowers large, in habit like 
those of Tabernceemoniana, deep yellow, 24 to 3 in. long, succulent ; 
calyx-lobes 10, rarely 9 ; corolla salver-shaped ; its lobes 10, rarely 9, 
contorted in imbrication ; stamens 10, inserted on the corolla-throat ; 
stigma very thick, oblong-claviform, consisting of 10 very viscid little 
lobes densely clustered ; fruit as large as a good-sized goose’s egg, 
ovoid-oblong, crowned with the 10 or 9 lobes of the persistent calyx- 
limb, hard, woody, grey-green ; sarcocarp thick, woody, fibrous ; 
endocarp almost bony, divided inside by 9 or 10 repla; seeds numerous, 
bony, angular-flattened, embedded in pulp. In dry hilly places among 
the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic but not uncommon ; 
fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. The natives call the tree ‘ N-dai” or “ Undai,” 
and also “Dai”; and they fix branches of it on the roofs of their 
huts, as a protection against damage by lightning. On this account 
Welwitsch in naming it dedicated the tree to Jupiter. Also at 
Catomba, near the river Luinha ; fl. July 1856. No. 2573. Also at 
Cambondo ; ir. Dec. 1856. Coxu. Carp. 168 (partly). 
Bumpo.—in rocky mountainous places among tall bushes, above 
Bumbo, at the base of the mountains of Serra de Chella, very sporadic; 
fl. Oct. 1859. No. 2579. 
Huitia.—A small tree, 6 to 15 ft. high, evergreen, its trunk rarely 
more than 8 in. in diameter; wood like that of Buaxus; branches, 
branchlets and leaves ternate-verticillate ; flowers yellow, large, salver- 
shaped ; fruit the size of a hen’s egg, green, afterwards covered with 
bark, many-seeded. Between Huilla and Quilengues; seeds Feb. 
1860. Cott. Carp. 168 (partly). 
According to a note of Welwitsch the Unday is also known by the 
local names of “ Miilabi,” “ Morala,” and “Saie.” Fungus n. 440, 
Hymenochete rubiginosa Lév., grew on decayed wood of this tree at 
Carengue in Golungo Alto in July 1857. The wood approaches a yellow 
colour, has a very fine grain, is very compact, heavy and remarkably 
strong, and is suitable for use in European workshops for all purposes 
for which box-wood is employed ; the best time for felling the timber 
is in the months of June and July. The tree is remarkable by reason 
