Rourea] xliii. connaracjj^e. 187 



scandent or standing erect sarmentose shrub ; branches and older 

 branchlets dark-brown and very densely beset with very small whitish 

 excrescences. Calyx segments imbricate in aestivation, concave, 

 uniformly reddish, glabrous, the upper edge ciliolate. Stamens 10 ; 

 carpels 5, nearly separate, villous, 4 of them regularly abortive ; styles 

 5, distinct. Fruit short, scarlet, pendulous, ellipsoidal-cylindrical, 

 1-seeded, for a time indehiscent. No. 4623. A very slender shrub, 

 occasionally scandent ; leaves deciduous ; flowers whitish-reddish, 

 sometimes almost rose-coloured ; fruit very bright scarlet, pendulous. 

 Abundant by the denser thickets ; fl. Dec. 1854. No. 4621. In fr. 

 May, at the same places as the flowering specimens of the last No. 

 No. 4625. In the above-quoted Nos. the foliage differs considerably 

 in the size of the leaflets, perhaps partly due to age. A sarmentose- 

 subscandent shrub, with white flowers and scarlet baccate fruit similar 

 to that of Berberis vulgaris L. ; Sange, Jan. 1856. Coll. Carp. 365. 



2. R. cassioid.es Hiern, sp. n. 



A slender climbing shrub, with the habit of a Cassia or of Mil- 

 lettia gracilis Welw. Herb. Nos. 1854, 1855; branches glabrescent, 

 terete, leafy, covered with a dark bark ; lenticels not so abundant 

 as in R. coccinea Hook. f. ; leaves impari-pinnate, about 9-jugate, 

 4 to 7 in. long ; petiole | to 1| in. long, puberulous ; lateral petio- 

 lules very short, beset with short dark spreading hairs, opposite or 

 slightly alternate, the pairs | to | in. apart, the terminal petiolule 

 | to 3 in. long, hairy ; leaflets oval-oblong or the terminal one 

 obovate, somewhat retuse at the apex, the lateral ones obtuse and 

 unequal at the base, chartaceous, deep green and glabrate above, 

 paler and not quite glabrous beneath, shortly ciliolate on the 

 margin, \ to lg in. long by 3 to J in. broad ; lateral veins about 4 

 on each side of midrib, not conspicuous ; fruit baccate-drupaceous, 

 not inflated, brilliantly scarlet, cylindrical, soft when ripe, glabrate, 

 not pendulous, | in. long, on a bracteolate peduncle of \ to f in., 

 lateral on the branchlets; fruiting calyx g in. diam. ; segments 5, 

 ovate, imbricate at the base, g in. long, ciliolate at the apex, 

 applied to the base of the fruit. Seed solitary, exalbuminous. 



Golungo Alto. — In less dense forests between Muria and Trombeta, 

 but very rarely met with ; fr. Sept. 1854. In the dense forests of the 

 mountains of Queta, but rather rare ; fr. Dec. 1855. No. 4627. 



3. R. (Byrsocarpus) fasciculata Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. 

 p. 329 (1891). 



Var. flagelliflora (Welw.). 



Inflorescence forming terminal slender whip-like spikes 18 to 

 24 in. long, leafless or at the lower nodes bracteate. 



Cazengo. — A slender shrub, climbing high and widely ; stem about 

 an inch in diam. and spinous in the lower part ; flowers of a whitish- 

 rosy colour ; fruit scarlet ; seed black-shining. In the primitive forests 

 of Muxaula, but sparingly ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 4628. 



4. R. venulosa Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust climbing shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high, glabrate except the 

 young parts and inflorescence ; branchlets pendulous, covered with 

 a dark bark scattered with pallid lenticels, terete ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate, 4- or 3-jugate, 4| to 9 in. long ; petiole \ to 2| in. long, 



