466 LXIX, RUBIACEE. [Oxyanthus 
on each side of the midrib, slender; petiole } to 2 in. long; 
stipules ovate or lanceolate, acute, entire, connate at the base, 
4 to 2 in. long, pallid, persistent ; flowers very slender, 4 to 5 in. 
long, whitish, several together in comparatively short axillary 
cymes; pedicels 4 to 2 in. long; bracts like the stipules but 
much smaller, deciduous; bracteoles subulate ; calyx-limb small, 
shortly cup-shaped with 5 lanceolate or subulate lobes =1, to 3 in. 
long ; corolla-lobes 5, linear-oblong, 2 to 1 in. long, spreading ; 
anthers 5, exserted, ;4, in. long; ovary 1-celled; style exceeding 
the corolla-tube by 3 to 3 in., narrowly clavate at the apex ; fruit 
subglobose, somewhat pyriform, scarcely an inch long, about 32 in. 
in transverse diameter, 1-celled; seeds rather numerous, about 
2 in. long. 
GoLunco ALTO.—Queta ; fr. July 1855. No. 25820. 
_ Punco ANDONGO.—In the wooded parts of Barranco de Songue, 
rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 2582. 
23. SHERBOURNIA G. Don in Loud. Encycl. Pl., Suppl. ii., 
p. 1323 (1855). 
Amaralia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 90. 
1. §. foliosa G. Don in Loud. Encycl. Pl., Suppl. ii., p. 1322 (1855). 
Gardenia bignonieflora Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 13 (1859). 
Amaralia bignonieflora Welw. ex Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 
iii, p. 112. 
GoLuNnco ALTo.—A robust shrub, climbing to a great height ; 
branches purple; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, faintly green above, 
pale-green beneath, narrowed or occasionally cordate at the base ; 
flowers handsome, 2 inches long, fleshy-coriaceous, almost like those of 
a Bignonia in shape, hoary outside when dry, solitary, axillary, some- 
what nodding ; peduncle short ; calyx foliaceous, lax, purplish ; corolla 
rose-violet, purple inside, silky-shining outside, turning ashy in drying, 
the tube cylindrical at the base, widening shortly above the base, 
almost an inch in diameter, the limb 5-lobed, lobes broad, rounded- 
obtuse, spreading and then turned back; stamens 5; fruit (not quite 
ripe) ovoid-oblong, green, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb ; 
cells many-seeded. In the dense primitive forests of Serra de Alto 
Queta, sporadic; fl. and young fr. Dec, 1854. No. 2571. 
Punco Anponco.—A shrub or small tree with elongated, sub- 
sarmentose branches, and broad opposite leaves ; flowers rather large, 
orange-coloured variegated with dark purple; corolla thickly coriaceous. 
In bushy wooded parts of the district ; seeds, 1856 and 1857. CoLL. 
Carp. 642. ‘ 
According to Welwitsch, Apont., /.c., the fruit is 1-celled, elongate- 
ellipsoidal, 1 to 14 in. in diameter, 3 to 34 in. long. 
24. POUCHETIA A. Rich. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 92. 
1, P. africana DC. Prodr. iv. p. 393 (1830); Hiern in Oliv. 
Fil. Trop, Afr. iii. p. 117. 
Privcz’s Ispanp.—In bushy places along a stream by the lower 
slopes of Pico de Papagaio ; fr. Sept. 1853. No. 1251. 
