Canthium] LXIX, RUBIACEA. 473 
Puxco ANDONGO.—In little woods by streams on the elevated rocks 
of Tunda Quilombo ; after the fall of the corolla and in young fr. 
Jan, 1857. No. 5350. 
2. C. virgatum Hiern, sp. n. 
A much branched erect virgate glossy shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high ; 
branches subterete, glabrate, whitish ; branchlets somewhat com- 
pressed and shortly hairy towards the extremities, glabrescent,. 
patent, sometimes abbreviated and almost spiniform; leaves 
opposite, ovate or oval, obtusely narrowed or acuminate and sub- 
apiculate at the apex, obtuse rounded or subcordate at the base, 
coriaceous, rigid, glabrous, shining and with venation and reticu- 
lation in relief on both faces, deep-green above, paler-green 
beneath, 1 to 2 in. long by 3 to 1 in. broad ; lateral veins 3 or 4 
on each side of the midrib, slender, not conspicuous; petiole very 
short ; stipules from a very short broadly ovate or sub-truncate 
base subulate ; flowers white, white-rosy in bud, greenish in young 
bud, fragrant, pentamerous, } in. long before expansion, 7; in. 
long when expanded, glabrous outside, on short glabrate pedicels 
arranged in abbreviated axillary cymes ; calyx green ; limb small, 
repand-quinquedentate, ciliolate ; corolla deeply 5-cleft ; segments 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, valvate in the bud, reflexed in full flower ; 
tube short, pilose inside ; throat bearded ; stamens 5, inserted in the 
sinuses between the corolla-segments, glabrous, exserted ; anthers 
danceolate-oblong ; disk glabrous ; ovary turbinate-campanulate, 
very small, fleshy, 2-celled; style filiform, exserted, glabrous ; 
stigma thick, mitriform, truncate and hollowed at the base, deeply 
bilobed at the apex; ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. 
Loanpa.—In dry hilly wooded situations among scattered bushes by 
roadside near Quicuxe in company with plants of Strychnos, and at 
Imbondeiro dos Lobos, not uncommon ; fl. 25 March 1858, and fl.-bud 
May 1854 and 1859. No. 4752. 
3. C. kraussioides Hiern, sp. n. 
A much branched, sarmentoge, evergreen, glabrous, glossy 
shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high; branchlets spreading, quadrangular, 
opposite ; leaves opposite, elliptical or lanceolate, often subacumi- 
nate, narrowed to an obtuse or apiculate apex, unequally wedge- 
shaped or obtuse at the base, coriaceous, glossy deep-green and 
slightly yellowish-green above, paler yellowish-green beneath, 2 
to 3 in. long by 3 to 14 in, broad; lateral veins 3 to 6 on each 
side of the midrib, inconspicuous; margins narrowly revolute; 
petioles 3 to 2 in. Jong; stipules from a broad ovate connate base 
subulate, about equalling the petiole ; flowers white, pentamerous, 
+ to 2 in. long when expanded exclusive of the glabrous exserted 
style, 2 to 4 in, long inclusive of it, numerous, on puberulous 
pedicels of + to 2 in. long, arranged in an umbellate or sub-um- 
bellate manner in subsessile or very shortly pedunculate axillary 
opposite cymes 4 to 1 in. in diameter; calyx campanulate, #5 to 
js in. long, glabrous outside or nearly so; limb short, quinque- 
dentate ; teeth small, lanceolate, minutely ciliolate ; corolla-tube 
sub-glabrous outside, pilose inside, $ to fin. long; throat bearded ; 
