Canthium] LXIX. RUBIACEA, 475 
of Medusa, 1 to 2 in. in diameter; calyx turbinate and adnate 
below to the ovary, glabrous except the ciliolate short truncate or 
obscurely dentate limb ; corolla from whitish to sulphur-coloured; 
the tube campanulate, glabrous outside, } in. long or a little 
longer ; throat bearded ; lobes 5, ovate, obtusely pointed, glabrous 
on both faces, about as long as the tube, valvate in the bud, 
reflexed in full flower; stamens 5, shortly exserted, glabrous ; 
anthers oblong; disk glabrous or minutely puberulous; ovary 
glabrous, 2-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous; style glabrous, far 
exserted ; stigma shortly calyptriform ; fruit subglobose, glabrous, 
g to 2 in. in diameter, and sometimes longitudinally furrowed 
on opposite sides, green, marked at the apex with the remains of 
the calyx-limb, 2-celled ; seeds cinnamon-red, didymous or solitary. 
GoLunGo ALTO.—By thickets along the margins of primitive forests 
near Cambondo and Trombeta ; fl. Dec. 1855 and Jan. 1856, No. 3150. 
Cambondo ; fr. 1 July 1856. According to Senhor Lima of Dalatando 
called “ Quicange-quiangilla.” No. 3151. Cambondo; very young fr. 
Feb. 1855. No. 3152. A subarborescent shrub, with a coffee-like 
habit, the sarmentose branches elongated, sometimes nodding or almost 
scandent; drupaceous fruit greenish; seeds cinnamon-coloured. 
Cambondo ; fr. beginning of July 1856. Native name ‘“ Quicanga 
Quiangilla.” Co. Carp. 646. 
7. C. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A considerable tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with a broadly spreading 
more or less pyramidal head; trunk straight, obtusely more or less 
tetragonal, 12 to 15 in. in diameter, never spiny ; wood white, 
hard ; branches and branchlets patent, tetragonal, glabrous or 
glabrescent ; branchlets bisuleate, green ; leaves opposite, usually 
oblong or oval-oblong, obtusely acuminate or cuspidate at the 
apex, obtuse rounded or more or less deeply cordate at the base, 
chartaceous-coriaceous, rather flaccid, glabrescent, shining above, 
pallid bright-green without gloss not at all reddish (as at length 
they become in the dried state) beneath, devoured with great 
avidity by insects, very large, often a foot and a half in length; 
lateral veins 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, depressed above, 
in clear relief beneath; petiole short, ranging up to 4 in. long; 
stipules broadly ovate, obtuse, ranging up to 1 in. long, deciduous, 
glabrescent and glossy at the back; flowers whitish-yellowish or 
of a pale-sulphur colour, 4 in. long before expansion, about + in. 
long when expanded exclusive of the exserted style, pentamerous, 
glabrous outside, on puberulous or subglabrous pedicels of 54; to 
2 in., arranged in compound axillary cymes 2 to 3 in. in diameter ; 
common peduncle glabrous, 4 to 1 in. long, repeatedly dichotomous, 
compressed or almost 2-edged, somewhat deflexed; bracteoles 
successively smaller, the smallest ciliolate shortly hairy inside ; 
calyx shortly campanulate, a little compressed at the base, 
occasionally bi-gibbous, the limb short and shortly dentate, 
minutely or obsoletely ciliolate; corolla-tube 3 in. long, densely 
hairy inside; the throat bearded; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
3 in. long, faintly tomentellous inside, valvate in sstivation, 
