Virecta. | LXX. RUBIACEX (HIERN). AY 
Leaves oval or somewhat ovate, obtuse or apiculate, more or less 
narrowed at the base, glabrescent above, shortly pubescent on the 
nerves beneath ; 4-1 by }—3 in. ; petiole ranging up to } in.; stipules 
solitary, with 3-4 long setaceous teeth from the wide base. Flowers 
densely fascicled, sessile, about $ in. long, 4-5-merous. Calyx-lobes 
tnequal foliaceous green. Corolla white. Disk small annular, some- 
what elevated in fruit into a short cone. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Barter! Mann! Bagroo River, Mann! 
UNKNOWN SPECIES. 
Virecta paniculata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. p. 521, n. 5, a shrub from Sierra 
Leone, appears not to belong to the genus, but I do not know the plant. 
ll. OTOMERIA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 55. 
_ Calyx-tube campanulate, at length turbinate, costate, persistent ; 
limb 5-lobed, irregular by the lengthening of the outermost lobe. 
Corolla-tube elongated, slender; limb subregular, spreading, 5-partite, 
valvate in sestivation ; throat more or less hairy. Stamens 5, inserted 
at the throat of the corolla, exserted or included; anthers linear-oblong. 
isk fleshy. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, bilobed at tip; ovules 
numerous. Capsule septicidally 2-coccous.—Erect ascending or pro- 
cumbent perennials, more or less shrubby at least at the base, with 
°pposite membranous leaves, 3-multi-setose shortly sheathing stipules, 
and geminate spicate often dimorphic flowers. 
feos as the following, Bentham and Hooker 1. ¢. allude to a species from Madagas- 
shiccia boa aly the flowers are dimorphic, by the included or exserted anthers 
wt 90 hr os greater or less degree of elongation of the style in all the species, 
thile the other n material shows, O. guincensis and O. dilatata have included anthers, 
Stipules plac Wo Species are seen to be dimorphic. 
so Plurisetose =. ww wk kee 
\pules with about 3 lanceolate or subulate teeth. 
aves elliptical, wedge-shaped at the base . 
Ves Ovate-la. 2-41; : . oe 
Tounded base te %-1} in. wide, from a broad nearly 
Pules with about 3 needle-shaped sete; leaves lanceolate, 
Rot exceeding 4 in. wide, attenuate at the base . . . . . 4. O. lanceolata. 
shrabier Suineensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 405. Somewhat 
obtusely ante above, 1-2 ft. high, branched. Leaves ovate, rather 
Veing ab, pointed or apiculate, narrowed at the base, puberulous on the 
inlon ove, hairy on the veins beneath; $-1} by 4-§ in. ; petiole 4-4 
together F pales plurisetose, pilose-hirsute. Spikes solitary or three 
More dist 12 in. long. Flowers about 3 in. long, crowded above, 
lon the ant below. Calyx nearly glabrous, the long lobe $-} in. 
) the small lobes short. Capsule about ¢ in. long. 
* Guinea. Niger, Grand Bassa, Th. Vogel! Ansell! Dr. McWilliam! 
2. ° . e . 
(1873). madiensis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. 83, t. 47 
VOL. 11, ecumbent or ascending, 1-24 ft. high, somewhat shrubby 
1. O. guineensis. 
2. O. madiensis. 
Sti 8. O. dilatata. 
Mo. Bot. Gariucn, 
1492. 
