486 LXIX. RUBIACEE. | Pavetia 
scarcely bifid at the tip; fruit depresso-subglobose, glossy, about 
8 in. in diameter, 2-celled, 2-seeded, crowned with the persistent 
calyx-limb. 
Gotuneo AxtTo.—In dense thickets at the borders of primitive 
forests at the base of the very lofty mountain of Cungulungulo ; with 
imperfect fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3187. 
Pungo ANponGo.—In densely shaded parts of Mata de Cabondo, 
within the presidium, not uncommon; fl. end of Dec. 1856. No. 3185. 
Mata de Cabondo ; fr. April 1857. No. 3186. 
This species is allied to P. Coopert Harv. 
2. P. nitidula Welw. ms. in Herb. 
A very elegant bush or little tree of 12 to 15 ft. with the habit 
almost of a Laurus, or in secondary thickets a shrub of 4 to 6 ft., 
very much branched, glabrous and rather shining throughout 
except the inflorescence and the base of the stipules inside ; 
branches roundly quadrilateral, somewhat compressed towards the 
extremities; leaves narrowly elliptical, pointed or apiculate at 
the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, rigid, dark-green 
and glossy above, paler and brownish-subglaucescent beneath, 4 to 
6 in. long by 1 to 12 in. broad ; margin narrowly revolute ; lateral 
veins 9 to 12 on each side of the midrib, slender, not conspicuous ; 
petioles ranging up to about 4 in. long ; stipules broadly ovate, 
supra-petiolar, nearly connate at the base, keeled-subulate, about 
3 in. long, hairy at the base inside; flowers rather large, hand- 
some, rosy-white or pale-purple, slightly aromatic, nearly 4 in. 
long when expanded exclusive of the exserted style, tetramerous, 
on short rather thick bracteolate puberulous pedicels, arranged 
many together in rather dense corymbose-hemispherical usually 
sessile cymes 2 to 4 in. in diameter, terminating the branches; 
calyx puberulous ; the limb quadrifid half way down, shortly hairy 
on both sides, campanulate-hemispherical, about ,, in. long; the 
lobes roundly deltoid, somewhat keeled and keeled-apiculate ; 
corolla between funnel-shaped and salver-shaped, glabrous outside ; 
the tube about 3 in. long, widening upwards, thinly hairy inside, 
densely bearded at the throat; lobes 4, about 3 in. long, oval- 
oblong, keeled-emarginate at the apex, contorted dextrorsely (as 
seen from above) in the bud, spreading or reflexed in full flower ; 
anthers about 7 in. long, linear, glabrous, longer than the fila- 
ments, exserted; disk fleshy, elevated, glabrous ; ovary 2-celled, 
somewhat compressed, the cells 1-ovuled ; ovules imposed on the 
fleshy placentas ; style about 3 in. long, glabrous below, slender, 
projecting about 2 in. beyond the expanded corolla, gradually 
thickening upwards into the narrowly clavate hairy stigma, 
bidentate at the apex ; unripe fruits numerous, subglobose, slightly 
turbimate at the base, crowned at the apex with the persistent 
puberulous calyx-limb, } in. in diameter, glabrate or nearly so, 
2-celled, 2-seeded. 
Punco AnponGo,—In rocky shady places; and in wooded thickets 
within the presidium, especially by the streams Cazella and Cabondo, 
abundant ; fl. from Oct. to April; nearly ripe fr. April 1857. No. 3189. 
