496 LXIX, RUBIACEE, [Grumilea 
corolla throat; disk fleshy, cushion-shaped, glabrous; ovary 
2-celled ; cells l-ovuled; ovules erect or ascending; style 
glabrous at base, minutely puberulous upwards, dilated towards 
the bilobed stigma, often a little curved; lobes of the stigma 
glabrous inside. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Between Cazella and Luxillo; fl. Jan. 1857. 
No, 3194. 
3. G@. moninensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An undershrub, about 18 in. high, often flowering at the top of 
shoots of 9 to 12 in. high which arise after periodical burnings ; 
stems sub-terete below, pallid or reddish, glabrate below, puberu- 
lous above; branches patent, densely puberulous towards the 
extremities with pallid short thick hairs, leafy ; leaves opposite, 
obovate or oblanceolate, usually obtuse or rounded at the apicu- 
late apex, wedge-shaped to the sessile or subsessile base, thinly and 
firmly coriaceous, deep-green and nearly glabrous above, whitish 
and squamulose-tomentellous beneath except the reddish venation, 
134 to 4 in. long by 3 to 2 in. broad; lateral veins about 10 on 
each side of the midrib, starting at about 45° with the midrib, 
clearly marked by difference of colour beneath; stipules broadly 
ovate, bipartite ; flowers white, about 2 in. long when expanded, 
2 in. long before expansion, subsessile, clustered several together 
in little heads bracteolate at the base, arranged in compound dense 
pedunculate nearly glabrous terminal cymes 1 to 1} in. in diameter ; 
bracteoles small, ovate ; common peduncle about | in. long ; calyx 
+i; in. long, glabrous or nearly so; the limb cupuliform, 5-cleft ; 
the lobes deltoid, loosely surrounding the corolla-tube ; corolla 
white, rather fleshy, the tube funnel-shaped, short, straight, 
glabrous outside ; the throat densely bearded ; the lobes 5, ovate, 
nearly 3 in. long, valvate in the bud, induplicately so at the apex, 
spreading in full flower, nearly glabrous outside, faintly squamu- 
lose-puberulous inside; stamens 5, glabrous; anthers linear- 
oblong, exserted, dorsifixed; filaments nearly as long as the 
anthers, inserted at the throat ; ovary 2-celled; cells l-ovuled ; 
ovules ascending, sub-orbicular, compressed ; disk glabrous, fleshy- 
annular ; style glabrous, about } in. long, rather thick and a little 
curved ; stigma thickly clavate, 2- or rarely 3-lobed ; fruit rather 
dry, subglobose, 4 in. in diameter ; seed 3 in. in diameter ; testa 
intruded. 
Huiiia.—In the wooded thickets of Monino ; fl. and fr. beginning 
of April 1860. No. 3192. 
4. G. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A robust little shrub, a foot high; stems simple or a, little 
branched, sub-terete glabrate and bare below, somewhat com- 
pressed puberulous and leafy towards the top; leaves opposite, 
ovate, rounded obtuse or shortly pointed and often apiculate at the 
apex, rounded obtuse or shortly narrowed at the base, chartace- 
ous, glabrous above or nearly so, usually scattered with very short 
hairs especially along the principal veins and margin beneath, 
