464 LXIX. RUBIACES, [Macrosphyra 
Gotunco ALTo.—A scandent widely spreading shrub, with soft 
(but rough to the touch) membranous deep-green leaves. In forests 
at the banks of the river Quiapoze, 21 March 1856. No. 4749. 
Punco AnponGgo.—A strong shrub ; trunk 1 to 2 in. thick, 4 to 6 ft. 
high; branches sarmentose, scandent; leaves membranous ; flowers 
resembling those of a Bignonia, black-purple, yellow-lined or spotted 
inside ; fruit elongated, 3 in. long, 14 or 1 in. thick, apparently 
1-celled, many-seeded, seen only in a half putrid condition. In the 
wooded parts of Barranco de Pedra Songue, within the presidium ; 
foliage, Dec. 1856 (fl. June 1857). In the forests of GoLUNGO ALTO 
the same species was seen as forming an erect tree of 8ft. No. 4748. 
21. CHALAZOCARPUS Hiern, gen. nov. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, more or less pyriform in fruit ; 
limb deciduous; disk cushion-shaped, glabrous; fruit obovoid- 
oblong or pyriform, very densely tomentose-hirsute with pallid rigid 
hairs, papillose with numerous small elevations of the skin inter- 
mixed with very numerous minute elevations, 4- to 5-celled, inde- 
hiscent ; cells with indefinite seeds ; seeds numerous, attached to a 
central columnar placenta, angular, each enclosed in a thin loose 
often incomplete arilloid coat ; angles of the seeds rounded ; testa 
coriaceous ; albumen horny, uniform ; embryo slightly curved, of 
moderate size; cotyledons foliaceous, flattened. 
A small weak slender tree, with large opposite herbaceous leaves, 
ovate entire caudate deciduous interpetiolar stipules, axillary 
inflorescence, and lateral and subterminal fruits solitary or on 
geminate peduncles in the axils of fallen leaves. 
1. C, hirsuta. 
A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, slender, weak, almost herbaceous, erect 
hispid-hirsute on the young part lower face of leaves along the veins 
and fruit ; branches opposite, lax, angular towards the extremities, 
pale or ashy, glabrescent; terminal buds tumid, pilose; leaves oppo- 
site, crowded at the extremities of the branches, ovate or sometimes 
obovate, shortly acuminate at the apex, unequal-sided and shortly 
decurrent-attenuate at the base, herbaceous, pale-green on both 
faces, especially beneath, scattered with short adpressed strigose 
hairs above, shortly hispid-hirsute along the veins and veinlets 
beneath, 12 to 18 in. long by 6 to 12 in. broad ; lateral veins 9 to 
12 on each side of the midrib, slender except near the midrib, in 
relief on the lower face ; petioles 1 to 13 in. long, channelled and 
hirsute above, rounded and glabrescent below ; stipules ovate, 
caudate or subulate-apiculate, hirsute with pale rigid hairs, 
deciduous, densely hairy inside, ? to 1 in. long ; flowers not seen ; 
fruits on the stem after the fall of the leaves in the axils of their 
scars and sub-terminal, ovoid oblong or pyriform, more or less 
tomentose-hirsute with pale rigid hairs, under the hairs papillose 
with numerous smal] tubercles intermixed with very numerous 
minute ones, indehiscent, pallid, 14 to 2 in. long, 1 to 12 in. in 
transverse diameter, 4-celled; interior scented almost like the 
fruit of Ceratonia Siliqua L. ; seeds numerous, about + in. long by 
3 in. thick, pallid, invested in a thin loose coat of the same colour. 
