ENN NEES Bg ue 
Oldenlandia. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 55 
limb ¢ in. diameter ; lobes ovate, subobtuse; throat thinly pubescent. 
Anthers subexserted. Fruit toughly coriaceous, subglobose, shining, 
yo-¢ in. diameter, subdidymons, at length bursting from the apex 
locnlicidally. Seeds obtusely angular.— Hedyotis (Kohautia) decumbens, 
Hochst. in Flora 1844, p. 552; Sond. in Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 
p-11; H. (Kohautia ?) fugaz, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift xxv. 
p. 282 (1875) ; Kohautia longiflora, E. Mey. ex Sond. J.c., non DC. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Rivers, Mann! Niger (Lagos), Barter! 
ower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! Monteiro! Soyaux ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island and coast, Hildebrandt! (suffruticose) ; Kon- 
gone mouth of the Zambesi, also on the right bank of the Luabo, Kirk / 
Oceurs also in Natal and Madagascar (Ste. Marie, Boivin). 
5. O. lasiocarpa, Hiern. Erect robust dichotomously branched 
annual, 2-21 feet high, somewhat scabrous with short puberulence. 
ranches subterete. Leaves linear-lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, apiculate, attenuate at the sessile base; 3-24 b 
1s- in., the uppermost ones smaller; stipules shortly sheath- 
Ing, 2-3-cuspidate. Flowers tetramerous, 4-2 in. long, slender, 
1-2 together, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, in pedunculate 
sessile terminal 2-3-chotomous cymes; branches of the inflo- 
weacence spicate in fruit. Calyx shortly pubescent in flower, 
10-4 in. long; lobes lanceolate-subulate, about as long as the tube. 
Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous, several times exceeding the calyx; 
lobes lanceolate-linear, rather obtuse (fide Klotzsch). Capsule 
;Presso-globose, 2 in. long, subdidymous, puberulous or nearly 
glabrate, crowned with the short lanceolate persistent calyx-teeth, at 
length bursting at the apex loculicidally. Seeds angular, imbedded in 
= corrugations of the placentas.—Kohautia lasiocarpa, Klotzsch in 
eters Mossamb. p. 296. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rios de Sena, Peters! ; Shiramba, Kirk / 
_ 6. 0, rigida, Hiern. Nearly glabrous, smooth, subglaucescent, 
ngid, branched, apparently perennial herb, more than a foot high. 
ranches rather divaricate, often fasciculate or verticillate, terete. 
: aves few, linear, obtuse, 3-14 in. long; stipules sheathing, short, 
runcate, terminated by two short teeth, soon obliterated. Flowers 
2 In. long, slender, subsessile and pedicellate, in corymbose cymes, 
th ramerous, Corolla salver-shaped ; tube many times the length of 
® calyx ; limb ¢ in. diameter ; lobes oblong, obtuse; throat glabrous. 
apsule subglobose, + in. diameter, at length bursting from the apex 
oculicidally, Seeds obtusely angular—Kohautia rigida, Benth.! in 
ook. Niger Fl. p. 402. ° 
Lower Guinea. Elephant’s Bay ?, Curror! ° 
P of ©. Schimperi, 7, Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. v. Suppl. i. 
nial ; ascending or decumbent rigid, glandular-scabrous peren- 
.oF annual, 1-3 feet high. Branches virgate, leafy at the base, 
"Bly 80 above, terete. Leaves linear (narrowly or broadly so), 
