482 LXIX. RUBIACEE. [Fadogia 
4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, slightly reddish (as well as the 
net-veins) but scarcely conspicuous; stipules ovate or lanceolate, 
2 to 4 in. long, entire, deciduous ; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 
puberulous or glabrate, about | in. in diameter ; common peduncle 
4+ toi in. long; pedicels ranging up to 2 in. long; bracteoles 
lanceolate, small; calyx 4 to } in. long, the limb 5-partite; 
segments lanceolate-oblong, apiculate, somewhat unequal, 53, to 7, 
in. long, glabrate or obsoletely puberulous, persistent ; disk 
glabrous or obsoletely scaly ; ovary shortly campanulate, slightly 
compressed, glabrous, fleshy, 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; ovules 
pendulous ; young fruit sub-globose, somewhat compressed, about 
din. in diameter, umbilicate at the apex and crowned with the 
persistent not accrescent calyx-lobes. 
Huitta.—In bushy pastures on the left bank of the river of 
Lopollo, sporadic ; after the fall of the corolla and in young fr. Jan. 
1860. No. 2584. 
3. F. fachsioides Welw. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 85, 
t. 50 (1873); Hiern, J.c., p. 155. 
Punco AnponGo.—Berries reddish. In Mata de Mangue ; ripe fr. 
Jan. 1857. Only one specimen found, No. 25676. A herb almost 
suffrutescent or an undershrub, a foot high ; rootstock thick, fleshy- 
woody ; stems few, erect ; leaves thick, fleshy with the nerves purple 
beneath ; flowers wine-purple, afterwards turning red, rather fleshy, 
green-yellowish inside, with reflexed limb ; stigma remarkable, as in 
the genus’; fruit red. In the sandy forests of Cazella, on the left 
bank of the river Lutete near the confines of the district of Ambaca, 
very rare, in company with a dwarf Meliacea (Nelanaregam alata 
O. Kuntze, Welw. No. 1301) and Sesamum angolense Welw. No. 1645 ; fl. 
18 Oct. 1856. No. 2568. In sandy forests at Luxillo, sparingly ; fr. 
Feb. 1857. A form with small fruit + to 4 in. in diameter ; leaves 
opposite or ternate, marked with red veins. No. 2568). 
Hoitia.—An erect undershrub or shrubby herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, 
cespitose or at least with several stems ; rootstock thick, hard-woody, 
horizontal or obliquely descending ; stems strict, scarcely woody, 
purplish or reddish, cylindrical below, obtusely trigonous from the 
middle to the apex, verticillately leafy ; leaves mostly ternately or 
quaternately or rarely 5—6-verticillate, softly coriaceous, lanceolate- 
ovate or elliptical, entire, glabrous or more or less shaggy ; petiole 
short, articulate with the stem ; stipules interpetiolar, entire ; peduncles 
axillary, typically ternate-verticillate and 3-flowered, blood-red; pedicels 
as long as the common peduncle or shorter ; flowers handsome ; calyx 
blood-red ; the tube obconical, adnate to the ovary ; the limb superior, 
patelliform, truncate ; corolla coriaceous or fleshy-membranous, blood- 
red, like that of a fuchsia ; the tube long, shaggy inside ; the throat 
naked ; the lobes of the limb 6 to 8, valvate in the bud, arching- 
reflexed in full flower, yellowish inside ; anthers 6 to 8 corresponding 
to the number of the corolla-lobes, sessile or subsessile, inserted 
in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes, linear, exserted, all alike ; 
ovary inferior, 6 to 8-celled ; the cells one-ovuled ; style simple, 
conical, surrounded at the base by the epigynous disk, gradually 
narrowed, exserted ; stigma precisely crown-shaped, broadly truncate 
both at top and bottom, stigmatose around the circumferential sides, 
broadly 6- to 8-radiate or even somewhat 6- to 8-lobed at the apex and 
