470 LXIX, RUBIACES. [Tricalysia 
Pungo ANDOoNGO.—A graceful tree, 12 to 15 ft. high; branches 
erect-spreading ; leaves coriaceous, glossy ; stipules interpetiolar, 
with a broad base and long acumen at the apex; fruit bright scarlet, 
ovoid globose, but little fleshy, crowned at the apex with the hardened 
calyx-limb, based with the calyculus, 2-seeded ; seeds ovate-orbicular, 
convex on one side, on the other slightly concave, the margin on one 
or both sides involute after the fashion of coffee seeds. In deep shady 
bushy valleys within the presidium ; sporadic; ripe fr. middle of Jan. 
1857. No. 3125. In bushy rather shady places at the sides of the 
gigantic rocks of the presidium ; fr. and fl.-bud Jan. 1857. No. 31250. 
A tree 5 to 7 ft. high ; trunk slender, erect ; head pyramidal ; branches. 
spreading ; bark of the trunk and branches whitish ; leaves coriaceous ; 
fruit scarlet, at the base of the gigantic rocks of the presidium, on the 
western side; fi.-bud beginning of Jan. 1857. No. 3126. A tree, 
7 to 9 ft. high; trunk straight; head obtusely pyramidal ; bark 
whitish ; leaves thinly coriaceous, evergreen, rather glossy. At the 
bottom of the gigantic rocks of the presidium, sporadic ; young fruit 
beginning of Dec. 1856. No. 3127. 
7. T, benguellensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 
An ornamental shrub, 2 to 6 ft. high, erect; branches and 
branchlets patent, decussate, leafy, glabrescent, towards the ex- 
tremities reddish and puberulous ; bark ashy; leaves oblanceolate 
or obovate-oblong, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, 
wedge-shaped at the base, glabrate or puberulous beneath, deep- 
green above, paler beneath, coriaceous, 1 to 2 in. long by 3 to 4 in. 
broad ; margins sub-recurved ; lateral veins few, inconspicuous, 
sometimes with tufts of short hairs in the angles where they start 
from the midrib; petiole very short or obsolete, often hairy ; 
stipules entire from a short ovate or truncate connate base 
subulate, 51, to 4 in. long ; flowers whitish, about 7 in. long when 
expanded, clustered about three together in very abbreviated 
opposite axillary approximated cymes, subsessile, bracteolate at the 
base ; bracteoles calyculate, beset with short rigid whitish hairs, 
falling short of the calyx; calyx small, campanulate, somewhat 
compressed, including the ovary =), in. long, persistent, the limb 
zs in. long, cupshaped, hairy on both faces, truncate, 6-toothed at 
the apex; corolla salver-shaped, the tube narrower than the 
calyx-limb, glabrous both inside and out, } in. long; throat 
glabrous; limb 6-partite, the segments 7 in. long, oblanceolate- 
oblong, rounded at the apex, not much narrowed towards the 
base, hairy outside, glabrous inside, spreading in full flower; 
stamens 6, exserted, glabrous; filaments lanceolate-linear, 
flattened, », in. long, inserted at the base between the corolla- 
lobes ; anthers linear, 4 in. long, dorsifixed at the middle ; disk 
fleshy, glabrous, short, annular-cup-shaped ; style } in. long, erect, 
straight, slender, glabrous, bifid. about a quarter way down; 
ovary 2-celled ; cells 2-ovuled; berry pea-shaped, + to } in. in 
diameter, scarlet, ‘glabrous, crowned with the hairy urceolate 
calyx-limb, 2-seeded or rarely by abortion 1-seeded. 
Bumzo.—A shrub with white flowers. In wooded parts of Serra da 
se oe with scarcely any leaves, Oct. 1859. Apparently this species. 
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