Coffea] LXIX, RUBIACEA, 491 
on the left-hand side of the Ambaca road; fl. end of Oct. 1855. A 
shrub very well worth cultivating for the sake of the elegance and 
fragrance of its flowers. No. 2572. A subscandentshrub. In wooded 
thickets near Bango ; fr. No. 3172. Calyx hidden by surrounding 
scales, adnate to the base of the petiole. In dense forests on the 
northern slopes of Serra de Alto Queta ; few nearly ripe fr. end of 
Nov. 1855. Differing from the common form of the species by its 
leaves being rather more coriaceous, apparently mostly verticillate in 
fours, and occasionally rounded at the apex. No. 3173. 
37. RUTIDEA DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 116. 
1, R. Smithii Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 189. 
Var. Welwitschii Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 82 (1894). 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—A shrub 4 to 6 ft. ; branches sarmentose, quite 
patent, slender, flagelliform-elongated, twisted, flexuous, almost scan- 
dent, sustained by other shrubs; pith jointed in the manner of a 
Conferva ; leaves rigidly chartaceous, deciduous ; flowers white, slightly 
fragrant ; calyx bracteolate at the base, campanulate, crowned with 
5 obtuse erect teeth ; corolla white, salver-shaped ; the limb 5-cleft, 
reflexed, beset at the throat on the upper part of the tube inside 
with whitish erect-spreading pilose hairs ; stamens 5, inserted at the 
throat, exserted by the turning back of the corolla-limb ; anthers 
linear, acuminate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, dorsifixed ; disk 
cupuliform, rather high ; ovary included in the calyx ; style filiform, 
central, far exserted, beset on the lower included part with thin hairs, 
thickly clavate towards the apex, split and stigmatose at the apex ; 
berries orange-scarlet, as large as a peppercorn or a very small pea. 
In dense thickets and rather dense forests from Sange to the streams 
Cate and Casaballa and in hilly situations on the right bank of the 
river Delamboa, abundant ; fl.-bud from the beginning of Nov. 1854 
to 5 Jan. 1855, constantly in the same condition, and May 1855; fl. 
Oct. and Nov. 1855 ; fr. Sept. and Oct. 1854. No. 3168. 
2. R. hirsuta Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender shrub, climbing far and high, with the habit of 
an Ophiorrhiza ; stems weak, sub-terete, pallid, glabrate below, 
hirsute above with spreading or deflexed somewhat tawny hairs ; 
leaves thinly coriaceous or sub-membranous, rather rigid, opposite, 
oval or sub-elliptical, rounded obtuse or narrowed and apiculate at 
the apex, rounded or subcordate and unequal at the base, bright 
green on both faces, glabrate except along the narrowly depressed 
midrib above and except the raised midrib and the 6 or 7 lateral 
veins on each side of it beneath, 3 to 6 in. long by 12 to 3 in. 
broad; petiole 4 to 2 in. long, hirsute; stipules supra-petiolar, 
with a prolonged subulate hirsute apex from a short broad base, 
+ to in. long; flowers } to 1 in. long, greenish with the corolla- 
limb more deeply green-yellowish inside, sessile, a few together 
arranged in small bracteolate heads arranged in brachiate or sub- 
Spicate pyramidal terminal bracteate cymes 2 to 3 in. long on a 
common peduncle of about the same length ; bracts sub-acicular 
and hirsute or sometimes sub-foliaceous; bracteoles sub-acicular, 
smaller, hirsute ; calyx 4 in. long, hirsute outside, at the base 
with 2 subacicular bracteoles of 2 in. in length; the tube funnel- 
shaped, small ; the limb deeply 5-partite, 4, to } in. long, hirsute 
