Tricalysia] LXIX. RUBIACEA. 471 
Huitta.—In rocky thickets about Lopollo and in elevated places 
in Morro de Lopollo, at an altitude of 5000 to 5500 ft., everywhere ; 
fl. Nov. 1859; nearly ripe fr. end of March 1860. No. 3122. On 
declivities from Lopollo towards Humpata, sporadic ; rather young fr. 
beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 3123. 
Nearly related to 7. djurensis Schweinf., but differs by the 
wedge-shaped base of the leaves, etc. 
26. CREMASPORA Benth.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 108. 
1, C. africana Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 412 (1849); Hiern 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 126. 
Puneo ANDoNGO.—A slender climber shrub, with obovoid-ellipsoidal 
hay At the banks of the river Lombe; fr. 9 March 1857. 
o. 3110. 
27. POLYSPHARIA Hook. f.; Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. Pl. ii. p. 127. 
1. P. neriifolia K. Schum. in Engl. Ost-Afrik. C., p. 383 (1895), 
Var, subnutans Hiern. 
A slender glabrous tree, 7 to 10 ft. high, with the habit of a 
Coffea; branches spreading; bark pallid; branchlets somewhat 
drooping, deep-green ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, shortly or scarcely 
glossy, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or unequally narrowed at 
the base, thinly coriaceous, 4 to 7 in. long by 1 to 13 in. broad ; 
lateral veins patent, slender, numerous, inconspicuous; margin 
often wavy ; stipules supra-azillary, ovate, apiculate, deciduous ; 
fruits (unripe) globose, green, 3 in. in diameter, subsessile, 
clustered a few together in the upper axils, crowned at the apex 
with the shortly hairy remains of the quadridentate calyx-limb, 
bracteolate at the base; bracteoles small, stipuliform. 
Puneo AnponGo.—In the shadiest parts of the Calemba Islands 
in the river Cuanza ; young fr. 11 March 1857. No. 3111. 
28. PENTANISIA Harv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 104. 
1. P. cerulea Hiern, sp. n. ; 
A perennial herb, glossy, glabrous, bright herbaceous-green, 
with the habit of a Thymus, scarcely a foot high; rootstock 
woody ; stems numerous, erect, gradually more branched in the 
upper part, cylindrical at the base, flattened-angular or com- 
pressed above, yellowish-green, turning reddish in the dried state ; 
leaves sub-linear or linear-oval, apiculate at the apex, narrowed 
towards the sessile or subsessile base, opposite, herbaceous, ? to 
14 in. long by }, to } in. broad, uninerved or with a few incon- 
spicuous lateral veins; stipules from a short broad base adnate to 
the petiole or leaf-base with two or three lanceolate or subulate 
tips ; flowers about 4 in. long, sessile, in dense terminal very 
abbreviated sub-capitate cymes; calyx-limb 5-cleft, three of the 
teeth small subulate, the two others foliaceous much larger 
similar to the leaves; corolla salver-shaped, the tube very slender 
throughout, about 2 in. long, violet-coloured ; the limb 5-partite ; 
segments spreading in full flower, valvate in the bud, about % in. 
