Fadogia| LXIX. RUBIACEZ, 481 
naming of the species ; Hochstetter’s plant appears to me rather 
to belong to Cuviera. 
1, F. Cienkowskii Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. p. 47, t. 32 (1868) ; 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 154. 
GoLuneo ALTo.—A suffruticose herb, with the habit of a Lysi- 
machia ; rootstock woody, very hard, horizontal, occasionally tuberous- 
swelled ; stems several, cylindrical at the base, 3- to 4-angular above, 
in the living state more or less glaucous-green, turning hoary in the 
dried state, 1 to 2 ft. high; leaves opposite or ternate or rarely 
quaternate, membranous, dry, rather rigid ; flowers from whitish to 
greenish ; calyx usually 6-toothed, greenish; corolla rather fleshy 
throughout, yellow, the limb 4- or 5-, rarely 7-cleft, the lobes reflexed 
at the time of flowering ; stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and 
alternating with them, reflexed in flower; anthers reddish ; style 
straight, sub-angular, surrounded at the base by the thick rather 
broad disk ; stigma capitate, with 3 or 4 thick erect ovate obtuse 
lobes, giving the whole style the appearance of a minute tulip with its 
scape. In dry elevated sandy-rocky but earthy pastures submitted to 
annual burnings for the purposes of cultivation, abundant, but only 
seen near Banza in Sobato Bumba ; fl. middle of Oct.1855 ; fr. March 
1856. No. 2566. In rocky-sandy pastures among short herbage 
between Bumba and Banga Aquitamba ; fr. March 1856. No. 2577. 
Habit precisely that of a Lystmachia ; flowers yellow ; berries pulpy, 
black. In Sobato de Bumba ; fr. Oct. 1855. Conu. Carp. 644. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—On the grassy slopes of Pedras de Guinga, 
sparingly ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 2578. 
Huiiia.—A herb, with a woody rootstock, and several stems a foot 
high or rather more ; leaves beneath with a thick midrib and raised 
reticulation ; flowers white or whitish; fruit agreeably acid-sweet. 
In wooded meadows between Eme and the great lake of Ivantala ; 
fl. and ripe fr. beginning of March 1860. This includes a form with 
narrower lanceolate-oblong leaves. No. 2565. In the lower rocky 
thickets between Mumpulla and Humpata, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1859. 
No. 2577. An undershrub, 1$ to 2 ft. high, with the habit of a 
Lysimachia ; stems numerous ; leaves 4-verticillate ; flowers clustered 
in the axils, yellowish, pentamerous or hexamerous ; berries black- 
bluish, as large as a good-sized pea, sub-globose, like a whortleberry in 
taste and shape but a little larger, sweet-acidulous, edible, with 2 to 
4 reniform seeds. In the interior brought to the markets by the negroes 
in December and January and sold for ardent liquors or gunpowder. 
Native name “ Muninghi” (Muningui ?) plural ; sing. “ Ninghi.” At 
Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859 and April 1860. Cox, Carp. 33. 
2. F. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A little shrub, 4 to 8 in. high, glabrous or very nearly so, not 
spiny ; primary stem decumbent-ascending, sub-terete, dark-ashy, 
densely branched apparently after the burning of the upper part 
of the plant ; branches angular and often trigonous above, densely 
leafy towards the extremities ; leaves mostly ternate, oblanceolate, 
rounded sub-apiculate or somewhat acuminate at the apex, 
gradually wedge-shaped towards the subsessile base, firmly and 
rigidly sub-coriaceous, green on both faces, very slightly paler 
and obsoletely scaly beneath, 1 to 5 in. long by 4 to 1 in. broad, 
sub-erect or making a small angle with the branch ; lateral veins 
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