188 xliii. connarace^e. [Rowrea 



rather slender ; leaflets elliptical or oblong, rather obovate, 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded or somewhat narrowed towards 

 the base, thinly coriaceous, deep-green and rather glossy above, 

 paler beneath, with about 5 principal lateral veins on each side of 

 the midrib which are erect-patent and prominent below and less 

 so above, marked with numerous transverse veinlets, 1 j to 3g in. 

 long by g to 1| in. wide, nearly opposite or rather alternate; 

 petiolules -^ to J in. long, the terminal one longer ; inflorescence 

 lateral or axillary, in clustered thyrsoid branched racemes, | to 

 lj in. long, tawny-piibescent, becoming less hairy as the flowers 

 develope; pedicels short, bracteolate; flowers about | in. long, 

 numerous ; calyx hemispherical, J^ in. long, deeply 5-lobed, 

 segments ovate-deltoid, puberulous, ciliolate, imbricate, not or 

 scarcely accrescent; petals of a whitish-rose colour, oblong, free, 

 about three times as long as the calyx ; stamens 10, glabrous, 

 5 alternately longer and about equalling the calyx ; filaments 

 dilated and adjacent at the base ; carpels 5, hairy below ; styles 5, 

 nearly equalling the petals, terminating in the small bifid stigmas, 

 glabrous ; follicle solitary, sessile on the spreading calyx, glabrate, 

 gibbous at the base, a little curved, nearly 1 in. long, green, red 

 towards the apex, smooth, fleshy-coriaceous, dehiscent; arillode 

 scarlet, covering nearly the whole of the seed and very fleshy; 

 seed solitary, erect, exalbuminous. 



Pungo Andongo. — In damp very shady places, in the deep valleys 

 amongst the gigantic rocks of Cabondo ; fl. and fr. end of Nov. 1856 ; 

 sporadic. No. 4630- In wooded situations about Pedra Oabondo ; 

 abundant ; fl. April, fr. Jan. 1857. No. 4631. 



5. R. pallens Hiem, sp. n. 



A climbing shrub, glabrous in most parts; branchlets terete, 

 closely lenticellate, rather slender, leafy towards the apex ; leaves 

 impari-pinnate or trifoliolate, 2- or 1-jugate, pallid, 4 to 8 in. 

 long ; petiole 1J to 2£ in. long, terete, slender except the tumid 

 wrinkled base; lateral petiolules T \j- to ^ in. long, opposite or 

 somewhat alternate, the terminal petiolule § to 1 in. long ; leaflets 

 5 or 3, ellipsoidal, much acuminate at the apex, the lateral ones 

 somewhat unequal at the base, all chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, 

 inconspicuously veined, 2 to 4| in. long by § to 1| in. wide; the 

 terminal leaflet rather the largest ; infructescence lateral or 

 axillary, short, glabrate, 1 1 to 1| in. long ; fruit oblong, slightly 

 curved, f in. long, scarlet, coriaceous, based by the persistent 

 hemispherical 5-partite calyx | in. in diam., the segments of which 

 are still slightly imbricate at the base ; seed black. 



Cazengo. — In the primitive forests of Cabondo, but rather rare ; 

 fr. June 1855. No. 4629. 



2. AGEL.EA Soland. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 432. 

 1. A. nitida Solander ex Planchon in Linnsea xxiii. p. 437 (1850^. 

 Cnestis obliqua Pal de Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. p. 97, t. 59 (1804). 

 A . obliqua Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Af r. i. p. 454. 



