480 LXIX, RUBIACEA, [Canthium 
many-flowered, about 1 in. in diameter, tomentose; flowers 
pentamerous; calyx-limb deeply 5-lobed; the lobes ovate or 
lanceolate, tomentose on both faces, about 3 in. long after the 
fall of the corolla; disk fleshy, glabrous ; ovary tomentose, cam- 
panulate, 2-celled, very fleshy ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; young 
fruit obliquely ellipsoidal, sub-glabrate, about 1 in. long, apparently 
1-seeded, solitary. 
HuiLia.—In the open forests of Monino, sporadic ; after the fall 
of the corolla and in young fr., Dec. 1859. No. 2583. 
30. VANGUERIA A. L. Juss. Gen. Pl. p. 206 (1789); Benth. 
& Hook. f. Gen. PL. ii. p. 111. 
1, V. infausta Burch. Trav. ii. p. 258, note, and p. 259, fig. 
(1824) ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 147. 
Hu1tLta.—A bush, 10 to 15 ft. high, decussately branched ; leaves 
ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, deciduous ; flowers from greenish 
to yellowish ; unripe fruit greenish-purplish with a yellowish tinge, as 
large as a small hazel-nut. In wooded rocky rather elevated situations 
near Lopollo ; fl. 15 Dec. 1859 ; fr. 15 Jan. 1860. No. 5351. 
2. V. canthioides Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 408 (1849); 
Hiern, l.c., p. 149. 
Gotuneo ALTo.—A bush, 3 to 10 ft. high, sometimes arborescent ; 
the central stem after the fall of the leaves showing from the petioles 
of the leaves ternate spines which are altogether absent from the 
circumferential branches ; young leaves membranous, the older ones 
chartaceous-rigid, early deciduous; flowers greenish; calyx cam- 
panulate, with 5 acute short distant teeth ; corolla salver-shaped, the 
tube equalling in length the five segments of the limb which are 
reflexed at the time of full flower; stamens 5, inserted on the 
bearded throat of the corolla; anthers ovate-acuminate, brick-red, 
2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; disk annular, thick ; ovary covered 
by the calyx, 5-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; style central, rather 
thick, a little curved below the apex ; stigma large, pileiform, green, 
obtusely lobed at the apex; young berries green, pentagonal. In 
shady forests at the base of the mountains of Queta, near Camilungo, 
rather rare; fr. June 1855. At the great waterfall of the river 
Cuango ; fl. Sept. 1854; fl.-bud 11 Oct. 1555 ; fl. May 1856. No. 5347. 
3. V. umbellulata Hiern, f.c., p. 150. 
Punco ANnDonGo.—A shrub, almost arborescent, with sub-scandent 
branches. In wooded parts of Pedras de Guinga ; after the fall of 
the corolla and in fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5348. A bush, 10 to 12 ft. high ; 
branches spreading ; branchlets pendulous-nodding ; young fruit green, 
sub-globose. In the primitive forests of the Calemba Island ; young 
fr. 12 March 1857. No. 5349. 
In the absence of the flowers from the specimens, these deter- 
minations are doubtful; they must be compared, especially the 
latter No., with V. ewonymoides Schweinf. 
31. FADOGIA Schweinf.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL. ii. p. 111, 
excl. syn. 
Pachystigma Hochst. (1842) has been united with this genus by 
K. Schumann, and being older has been adopted by him in the 
