Grumilea] LXIX, RUBIACEA, 495 
patent, raised beneath ; petioles ranging up to 14 in. long; 
stipules ovate, acute, connate at base, undivided, } in. long; 
flowers pentamerous, greenish, about 3 in. long when expanded, 
on short puberulous pedicels arranged in compound umbellate 
shortly pedunculate or sessile puberulous terminal cymes 2 
to 3 in. in diameter; common peduncles ranging up to 3 in. 
long ; calyx ;}; in. long, puberulous outside ; the limb cupuliform, 
5-cleft ; the lobes deltoid, glabrous inside ; corolla nearly glabrous 
outside; the tube about {4 in. long, straight ; the throat densely 
bearded ; the lobes about 3 in. long, oval, pointed, valvate in the 
bud, induplicately so at the apex, spreading or reflexed in open 
flower; stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla; 
glabrous; anthers ellipsoidal-oblong, exserted, shorter than the 
filaments, 4 in. long: disk fleshy, glabrous, prominent, com- 
paratively large; style glabrous below, not exserted, about 
reaching the throat of the corolla; stigma bilobed; ovary 
small, fleshy, 2-celled, sub-turbinate, somewhat compressed ; cells 
l-ovuled; ovules erect; fruit pea-shaped, } in. in diameter, 
glabrate, 1-celled ; seed solitary ; albumen apparently ruminated. 
Pungo ANnDONGO.—In dense forests by streams near Catete ; fl. and 
young fr. Dec. 1856. No. 3208. 
2. G. flaviflora Hiern, sp. n. 
An undershrub, 12 to 15 in. high, as the upgrowth from a 
woody rootstock, or probably growing taller ; stems several, erect 
or ascending, not much branched, pubescent or puberulous with 
whitish short hairs and somewhat angular except the base, com- 
pressed toward the apex; middle internodes distant; leaves. 
opposite, obovate, rounded or retuse and sometimes mucronulate 
at the apex, wedge-shaped towards the base, thinly coriaceous, 
shining, deep-green and sparingly scattered with short hairs 
above, paler and subscabrid with short hairs along the midrib 
and venation beneath, ranging up to 4 in. long by 23 in. broad ; 
lateral veins about 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, slender but 
clearly marked as well as the reticulation beneath ; petioles ranging 
up to 2 in. long ; stipules deltoid, pointed, undivided, connate at the 
base, hairy at the back; flowers turning yellow, about } to {% in. 
long when expanded, sessile or subsessile, several together in little 
dense clusters arranged in brachiately branched hemispherical-corym- 
bose pedunculate hairy terminal cymes about 2 in. in diameter ; 
common peduncle nearly 3 in. long, compressed, pubescent, with 
2 caudate bracts at the apex; bracteoles small, some caudate ; 
calyx about 5; in. long, pubescent outside; the limb cupuliform, 
4 to 5-cleft, glabrous inside, lobes deltoid ; corolla rather fleshy, 
1 or 2 in. long when expanded ; the tube cylindrical, straight or 
nearly so, nearly glabrous outside ; throat densely bearded ; limb 
spreading ; lobes 4 or 5, ovate, obtuse, ;4, to z/5 in. long, valvate 
in the bud, induplicately so and hooded at the apex; stamens 
4 or 5, more or less shortly exserted, minutely hairy; anthers 
oblong, about equalling the filaments which are inserted on the 
