478 LXIX, RUBIACE, [Canthium 
apex, rather obtusely narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, shining and deep-green 
above, yellowish-green beneath, fuscous in the dried state, those 
on the flowering branches usually loosely pendulous, 1 to 3 in. 
long by 3 to2 in. broad ; lateral veins about 4 on each side of the 
midrib, not very conspicuous; petiole 3 to } in. long, glabrescent ; 
stipules lanceolate-subulate, puberulous, deciduous, about equalling 
the petiole; flowers pale yellowish, tetramerous, about } in. when 
expanded exclusive of the exserted style, nearly 4 in. inclusive of 
the style, numerous, on pubescent pedicels of about } in. long 
arranged in dense compound pedunculate axillary panicles 3 to 
1 in. in diameter ; common peduncle } to 2 in. long, pubescent in 
flower, glabrate in fruit ; calyx about 4, in. long, scattered with 
short hairs outside and ciliate on the margin; limb small, cleft, 
the lobes deltoid ; corolla-tube 4, in. long, cylindrical, glabrous 
outside, pilose inside ; the lobes ovate, obtuse, sub-apiculate, 4, in. 
long; throat somewhat pilose ; anthers exserted, oblong, glabrous, 
on short filaments inserted about the throat; disk glabrous; 
ovary 2-celled; style glabrous, far exserted; stigma mitriform ; 
ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous ; fruit globose, occasionally 
bilobed-didymous, } to 4 in. in diameter, glabrous ; the scar of the 
remains of the calyx-limb and the disk often far removed from the 
apex of the fruit. 
Punco Anponeo.—By thickets in rocky wooded parts (Barrancos) 
of the presidium ; unripe fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3144. In wooded thickets 
near Quilanga and Quibanga, not uncommon ; fl. April 1857. No. 3143. 
In young fr. Doubtfully referred here. No, 3252. 
13. C. golungense Hiern, sp. n. 
A small evergreen glabrous tree of 10 to 15 ft. or more, or a 
tree-like shrub of 5 to 9 ft.; stem quadrangular, furrowed ; 
branches spreading, angular, purplish and somewhat compressed 
towards the extremities and at the upper nodes; bark ashy ; head 
widely spreading ; leaves elliptical, obtusely or narrowly acumin- 
ate at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, 
bright-green on both faces, shining with a varnish-gloss above, 3 
to 54 in. long by 13 to 23 in. broad, widely wavy on the margin ; 
lateral veins 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, not conspicuous ; 
petiole 3.to 3 in, long; stipules from a broad base subulate, 
sheathing, keeled-acuminate ; flowers from whitish to greenish or 
yellowish, terfamcreus, small, ¢ in. long when expanded, on puber- 
ulous pedicels of ~; to 4 in., arranged in opposite compound 
axillary cymes of T to 12 in, in diameter; common peduncles 
ranging up to } in. long, puberulous; bracteoles small; calyx 
campanulate-cupshaped, about 4 in. long, _Puberalons limb 
truncate, very obscurely toothed ; corolla-tube +, 19 in. long, glabrous 
outside, pilose inside ; throat bearded ; lobes +45 in. long, ovate, 
obtuse, faintly tomentellous inside, valvate in the bud, reflexed in 
full flower; stamens 4, glabrous, inserted at the throat of the 
corolla, exserted anthers oblong, introrse, dorsifixed, 2-celled, 
longitudinally dehiscing ; filaments reflexed ; disk shortly hairy, 
