Oldenlandia. } LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 53 
Inflorescence cymosely corymbose, or 
sub-spicately branched with fasci- 
culate flowers. 
Sete of the stipules long, conspicu- 
ous, at length refiexed or 
spreading ..... . . 14. O. Caffra. 
Setz of the stipules short, suberect . 15. O. virgata. 
Flowers solitary or loosely paniculate. 
Pedicels long and slender, not rigid ; 
inflorescence terminal . . 16. O. effusa. 
Pedicels rigid, not very long, mostly 
axillary . . . . . . . . 17. O. Heynei. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, scarcely exceeding the ~ 
calyx. 
Inflorescence terminal ; pedicels fasciculate. 
‘Leaves narrowly linear . . . . . . 18. O. parviflora. 
Leaves linear-oval woe ew ee ew 6 19 OD flosculosa. 
Inflorescence axillary, or subterminal with 
solitary flowers. 
Flowers solitary. 
Calyx-lobes obtuse. . . . . . . 20. O. monanthos. 
Calyx-lobes acute at least in flower. 
Closely branched, dwarf . . . . 21. O. cespitosa. 
Simple or nearly so, dwarf . . . 22. O. tenuissima. 
Simple or branched, elongated . . 23. O. lancifolia. 
Flowers two or more together. 
Peduncles solitary, bearing two or more 
flowers . . . . . . . . « 24. O. corymbosa. 
Peduncles two or more together, each 
l-flowered . 25. O. capensis. 
Peduneles very short, crowded several 
together . . . 2...) « 26. O. trinervia. 
Flowers pentamerous . . . . . . . . «27. O. macrophylla. 
Cal Capsule obconic-oblong, tardily dehiscent . . . . 28. O. wauensis. 
yx-lobes 4 with intervening subulate teeth. Capsule 
. wee . . . 29. O. hedyotoides. 
indehiscent , _ . 
to ir, 0, Peltospermum, Hiern. A glabrate shining shrab climbing 
he height of 10-15 feet or arborescent ; branches terete, purplish. 
aves ovate or elliptical, narrowed at both ends, membranous, 2-5 
le in.; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules shortly ovate, wide, undivided, 
Puberulous, terminated by a subulate tooth, soon obliterated. Flowers 
ped cus, 2-$ in, long, 1-8 together, sessile or occasionally one 
+ Sany on spikes arranged in terminal panicles 6-12 in. long. 
1_J*, Coriaceous, green; tube campanulate, at length subglobose, 
teet i. diam., wholly adnate to the ovary ; limb short, spreading ; 
short] rere, ovate. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, pale blue ; limb 
clay: y lobed ; throat hairy. Anthers oblong, included. Stigma sub- 
~, subentire. Capsule coriaceous, at length septicidally dicoccous, 
~ ae diam ; seeds orbicular, peltately attached to the fleshy placentas. 
Hed, -: permum paniculatum, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 400; 
vons (8p.), Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p- 57. 
Bart ernando Po, Th. Vogel! Mann: Barter! Princes Island, 
! Gaboon River, Mann! Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
2. 0. Bojeri, Hiern. A dense undershrab, puberulous, 1-3 feet 
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