468 LXIX. RUBIACES. [Tricalysia 
corolla-throat densely bearded ; anthers exserted ; connective pro- 
duced at the apex with a subulate appendage ; style level with the 
anthers; stigma deeply bilobed. Gabriel’s coffee tree. No. 3118. 
An evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches straight, spreading, 
decussate, with a whitish bark ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, 
paler beneath ; flowers white, fragrant ; corolla contorted in zstivation. 
In hilly bushy rocky places at the back of Alto das Cruzes ; fl. Feb. 
1854; unripe fr. April 1854. No. 3119. A shrub of 5 to 7 ft, 
evergreen, forming the densest thickets ; branches decussate, whitish ; 
stipules acuminate; leaves coriaceous, rather glossy, from pale 
yellowish to greenish and paler beneath ; fruit as large as a small 
pea or a peppercorn, greenish purple when unripe, crowned with the 
remains of the calyx-limb. In hilly, sandy and rocky places, not far 
from Quicuxe, abundant ; unripe fr. May 1854. No. 3120. A shrub; 
stems cespitose, erect, 4 to 6 ft. high, patently branched ; leaves 
evergreen ; berries clustered, as large as a small pea, at first green, 
soon turning to bluish-green, at length black, 2-celled ; seeds 2 or 3 
or rarely 4 in each cell, or very rarely solitary in one of the cells. 
On bushy plains near Quicuxe ; fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 3121. A shrub, 
4to5 feet high ; branches whitish ; leaves evergreen ; fruit baccate, 
black, pruinose. In thickets between Quicuxe and Mutollo, sporadic ; 
seeds July 1854. Probably this species. Coun. Carp. 134, 
3. T. glabra K, Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 445 (1896). 
Punco Anponeo.—A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high; trunk 6 in. in 
diameter at the base, unbranched to the height of 5 ft., then with 
spreading branches and nodding branchlets; flowers white ; corolla 
densely bearded at the throat ; anthers produced at the apex of the 
connective into an apiculus; style filiform, gradually thickened 
upwards, obsoletely bilobed, the lobes stigmatose. In deep, shaded, 
wooded valleys amongst the gigantic rocks of the presidium at Catete, 
sporadic ; fl. Nov. 1856. No. 3117. 
The above No. is the type of the species; the two following 
Nos. appear also to belong to the species :—- 
Punco AnpoNGO.—A graceful and ornamental tree, 6 to 8 ft. high, 
much branched ; branches spreading ; leaves coriaceous, shining, very 
bright green; unripe fruit green, 3- or 2-celled, crowned with the 
calyx-limb, bracteate at the base. In elevated rocky parts of the 
presidium, in Pedra de Cabondo ; young fr. end of April 1857. No. 
3091. A tree of 53 ft., with the habit of the genus or of a tangerine 
orange tree ; head sparse ; leaves bright-green, persistent, pallid beneath ; 
unripe fruit greenish. Near the top of Pedra de Cabondo in rocky 
situations within the presidium ; only one branch seen in fr. April 
1857. No. 3129. 
4, T, andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A robust shrub, with the habit of a Coffea; branches divaricate, 
sub-terete, glabrate, dark-ashy ; branchlets scandent or pendulous- 
nodding, often alternate, leafy and densely beset towards the 
extremities with whitish rigid short hairs, somewhat angular; 
leaves elliptical, more or less narrowed at each end, firmly 
papery, glabrous except the principal veins and ciliolate margin, 
green above, rather paler beneath, flat, 23 to 4 in. long by 14 to 
13 in. broad; lateral veins 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, 
slender; petiole hairy, + to 3 in. long; stipules entire, ovate, 
