484 LXIX. RUBIACER. [Cuviera 
corolla-lobes around the ring of hairs; rigid, exserted; filaments 
compressed-cylindrical, fleshy, curved-patent at the time of 
flowering ; anthers ovate, cordate, introrse, 2-celled, obtuse at the 
apex, basifixed; cells separate at the base, cohering at the apex 
longitudinally, yellow ; ovary adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled ; 
cells 1-ovuled; disk 4 little elevated, flat ; style thick, columnar, 
rosy, densely pilose; stigma mitriform, large, obtuse, stigmatose 
and cleft at the apex; fruit oblique, deeply furrowed, about 
1 in. long, crowned with the more or less persistent calyx-limb 
or with its remains. 
GoLunco ALTO.—In rather dry places, among tall grasses and in 
thickets, among the mountainous forests of Alto Queta ; fl. April and 
May 1855; fr. end of August 1855. No. 2564. CoLi. Carp. 648. 
33. ANCYLANTHOS Desf.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 112 (Ancylanthus). 
1. A. rubiginosus Desf. in Mém. Mus. Par. iv. p. 5, t. 2 (1818); 
Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. p. 153 (1859); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. iii. p. 158. 
A. ferrugineus Welw. in Andr. Murr. Journ. Trav. i. p. 29 (1868). 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, branched from the base, 
at first sight looking exactly like an Azalea; leaves soft, rather 
thick, scarcely coriaceous, fully developed only after the flowers; 
flowers rather rigid, rather dry, bright brick-red. In rocky thickets, 
from the presidium to the district of Ambaca ; abundant; fl. Nov. 1856; 
fr. Feb. 1857. No. 3159. 
2. A. fulgidus Welw. ex Hiern, l.c., p. 159. 
Ancylanthus (sp.), Welw. in Arch. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Genev. 
1861, p. 202. 
Huitia.—aA shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, rather densely virgate-branched ; 
stems sparingly and patently branched ; branches rufous-tomentose ; 
corolla brilliantly orange-red. In wooded thickets from Mumpulla to 
Lopollo ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3160. At Lopollo in front of Senhor 
Kneissman’s house ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 3161. 
A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with handsome flowers. In thickets ; fr. Jan. 
1860. CouL. Carp. 87. 
Perhaps only a variety of the last species. 
3. A. cinerascens Welw. ex Hiern, J.c. 
Punco AnponGo.—An erect, patently branched shrub, about 4 ft. 
high, the young parts cinereous-tomentose throughout. Berries from 
yellow to reddish, but little juicy. In the denser forests of Mutollo 
near the presidium ; fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3162. A slender shrub, 3 to 
4 ft. high ; fruit pulpy, red-velvety ; seeds larger than in A. rubiginosus 
ee In forests by the river Mangue ; fr. 31 Jan. 1857. Cou. 
ARP, 659. 
4, A. cistifolius Welw. ex Hiern, /.c. 
Puneo ANDoNGO.—An erect, sparingly branched shrub, 1} to 3 ft. 
high. In the forests composed of Mimosexz by Serra de Pedras de 
Guinga, sporadic ; fr. Jn. 1857. No. 3163. 
