72 LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). [ Urophyllum. 
17. UROPHYLLUM, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, PI. ii. p. 71. 
Calyx-tube more or less turbinate in flower, globular in fruit ; limb 
hemispherical, wider than the tube, usually truncate ; teeth usually 5, 
obsolete minute or small. Corolla coriaceous, shortly tubular ; 2-3 
times the length of the calyx; lobes usually 5, ovate or lanceolate, 
valvate in estivation ; throat shaggy. Stamens usually 5, inserted at 
or near the throat of the corolla; filaments usually short; anthers 
linear or lanceolate, included. Disk tumid, annular, hairy or glabrous. 
Ovary 4-5 celled ; style puberulous or glabrous, often clavate; stigme 
entire or cleft at the apex; ovules numerous. Berry pisiform, 4-5- 
celled; seeds small, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy.—Shrubs or 
small trees, with opposite petiolate submembranous or subcoriaceous 
leaves, interpetiolar stipules and short flowers in axillary cymes. 
A genus of several species occurring also in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 
Inflorescence wholly axillary. 
Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Flowers 3-4 in. long. 
Stipules foliaceons, $-1 in. long. Leaves with 20-26 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib. 
Leaves wedge-shaped at the base . 
Leaves usually rounded at the base . . 
Stipules }-} in. long. Leaves with 8-18 lateral veins 
on each side of the midrib. 
Leaves obtuse at the base ; lateral veins about 15-18 
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. U. hirtellum. 
2. U. callicarpoides. 
pairs. 2... . .. 8 OD insulare. 
Leaves wedge-shaped at the base ; lateral veins about 
8-11 pairs . 4, U. rubens. 
Stipules 3-} in. long. Leaves with 7-9 lateral veins on 
each side of the midrib - we ew we 8 UL Afeelit. 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate or ovate, not minute. Flowers 
small. ww. ww ee we wwe ee. 6. OU patucinerve. 
Calyx-teeth subulate-filiform, not minute. Flowers very 
small see ee ee eee ew 7 OG micranthum. 
Inflorescence in quasi-terminal and axillary cymes . . . 8. U. viridiflorum. 
1. U. hirtellum, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 397. A shrub of 
15 feet. Shoots puberulous or at the extremities hirsute-pubescent. 
Leaves elliptical. acutely acuminate, wedge-shaped or attenuate at the 
base, firmly chartaceous, pubescent or pubernlous on the numerous 
(22-26) veins and midrib, shining above, rather paler beneath ; 4-11 
by 1}-4 in. ; petiole 3-14. Stipules ovate, obtuse, foliaceous, solitary, 
undivided, puberulous, % in. long, fugacious. Flowers 1—} in. long, 
glabrous outside, shortly pedicellate, in dense many-flowered puberu- 
lous axillary cymes scarcely equalling the petioles. Calyx-limb hem)- 
spherical, truncate, with 5 minute teeth. Corolla twice the length of 
the calyx, 5-cleft; throat shaggy; lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Style 
hairy ; stigma bifid. Fruit globose, 4 in. diameter, 4—5-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Aboh, Th. Vogel! Bagroo River, Mann! Old Calabar River, 
Mann! 
2. U. callicarpoides, Hiern. A strigose-hispid tree, 30 feet high. 
Leaves oblong, much acuminate, ronnded or somewhat excavate 
rarely somewhat narrowed at the base, submembranous, 8-16 by 
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