Chatlazocarpus| LXIX, RUBIACE&, 465 
CazeNGo.—In very dense forests among the higher mountains of 
Serra de Muxaula, sporadic and rare ; fr. not yet fully ripe June 1855. 
‘No. 2574. 
The following two Nos, possibly belong to this species or 
‘genus :— 
GoLunco ALTo.—A bush of 2 ft., perhaps a mutilated tree. In 
thickets springing up after tillage, near Zengas de Queta ; without 
either fl. or fr. June 1856. No. 4746. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—An arborescent shrub ; stem straight, 1 to 2 in. 
thick ; branches spreading ; leaves opposite, large ; stipules inter- 
petiolar, pilose with long strigose hairs. Buds tumid, pilose. At the 
borders of forests, by the side of the gigantic rocks of the fortress ; 
without either fl. or fr. March 1857. No. 4747. 
22. OXYANTHUS DC.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 91. 
1. 0. tubiflorus DC. Prodr. iv. p. 376 (1830); Hiern in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 107, 
Punco AnponGo.—Leafy branchlets only ; April 1857. The absence 
of flowers and fruits renders absolute identification difficult, but the 
foliage agrees with this species. No. 4751. 
2. 0. rubriflorus Hiern, /.c., p. 108. 
GoLunco ALTO.—A small tree of 10 to 12-ft. high with a tortuous 
trunk, or in secondary thickets a shrub: flowers from yellow to red 
and variegated with green. In the dense forests among the mountains 
of Cabanga Cacalungo; fl. August 1856 and July 1855. Fruit egg- 
shaped subturbinate at the base or rarely subglobose, 2-celled, about 
an inch long ; seeds numerous, about } in. long. Nos. 3087, 30870. 
A shrub, almost a small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high ; stem branches and leaves 
remarkable for their green-glaucous hue ; leaves coriaceous, wedge- 
shaped or obtuse at the base, shining on the upper face, quickly drying; 
fruit olive-shaped or somewhat pear-shaped, turbinate at the base, 
green, many-seeded, smooth outside, 14 to 1 in. long. Habit Acan- 
thaceous. In elevated shady forests by streams among the mountains 
of Serra de Alto Queta; fr. August 1855. Apparently this species. 
No. 3088. 
8. 0. speciosus DC. in Ann. Mus. Par. ix. p. 218 (1807); Hiern, lc. 
Istanp oF St. THomas.—A small tree, but perhaps a young one. 
Fr. Dec. 1860. Native name “ Mule-Mule.” No. 3090. 
The following two Nos., without notes in the collection, must 
be compared with this species, and the second No. also with the 
previous species :— 
GoLunGo ALTO.—Fl.-bud. No. 3089. Without fl. or fr. No. 30880, 
3. 0, pallidus Hiern, sp. n. 
A glabrous little tree, 8 to 10 ft. high ; trunk 6 in. in diameter 
at the base; branches pallid, dichotomous, obtusely angular, 
rather slender, green and somewhat flattened at the extremities ; 
leaves oval or elliptic-oblong, more or less cuspidate-acuminate at 
the apex, in most cases obtusely and unequally narrowed and 
narrowly decurrent at the base, thinly coriaceous, deep-green or 
glaucescent-green above, pallid beneath, 4 to 63 in. long by 1 to 
22 in. broad ; margin very narrowly revolute ; lateral veins 6 to 9 
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