Urophyllum. | LXX. RUBIACEX (HIERN). 73 
1}-4 in. ; lateral veins 20-24 on each side of the midrib, depressed on 
the upper surface ; petiole about 4-2 in. ; stipules ovate, about 1 in. 
long, caducous. Flowers glabrous outside, about } in. long, on short 
hairy pedicels, many together in short axillary closely branched cymes 
which are about double or treble the length of the petiole. Calyx 
about half the length of the flower ; limb hemispherical, truncate ; teeth 
minute. Corolla-tube short, shaggy inside; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
glabrous on both sides. Disk tumid, hairy. Style club-shaped, more 
or less hairy above. Ovary 4:?-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Muni River, 1° N. Lat., Mann! 
3. U. insulare, Hiern. A small nearly glabrous tree. Leaves oval 
or oval-lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, glossy, submembran- 
ous, 4-9 by 13-31 in. ; lateral veins slender 15-18 on each side of the 
midrib ; petiole 4-2 in., channelled above; stipules lanceolate cadu- 
cous, about 4 in. long, margins much involute. Flowers glabrous 
outside, about 4 in, long, on rather longer obsoletely puberulous 
pedicels, in axillary cymes which measure 1—]4 in. long. Calyx about 
+ the length of the flower ; limb hemispherical, truncate ; teeth obso- 
lete, Style club-shaped, obsoletely puberulous as well as the disk. 
Ovary 4-5-celled. Fruit 4 in. diameter. 
Upper Guinea. I. St. Thomas, Mann / summit of the peak. 
f pecimens of a small tree, 20-25 feet high, from Prince’s Island (Manz!) in young 
ower-bud with narrow pubescent bracts elongate-lanceolate leaves and petioles shortly 
pubescent above, apparently belongs to this species. 
4. U. rubens, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 396. A glabrous 
shrub, 6 feet high, glabrous except the minutely puberulous buds and 
inflorescence. Branches dark-reddish in the dry state. Leaves ellip- 
tical, subacuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, reddening when dry 
sPecially on the veins, thinly coriaceous, shining; lateral veins 
00 each side of the midrib ; margins revolute; 8-6 by 14-23 in. ; 
Petiole §—§ in. Stipules ovate-oblong or obovate, }-4 in. long, cadu- 
rion Flowers about 1 in. long, glabrous or very nearly so, rather 
Eee. their pedicels, about 10-30 together forming shortly pedun- 
rad axillary cymes which scarcely exceed the petiole. Calyx-limb 
tw; ®mispherical, truncate, entire, y4;—y/5 in. diameter. Corolla about 
sl the length of the calyx ; throat shaggy. Style shortly pubes- 
nt below, entire. Ovary 4-celled. 
ne ae s h. Vogl! Capt. Arabin! Sierra 
Leone, Afzelins | ea. Fernando Po Island, 7h. Vogil! ip 
® red dye used by the natives of Fernando Po. 
aoe U. Afzelii, Hiern. Branches slender, terete, softly puberu- 
glab; Leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 
tag and rather glossy except the puberulous midrib, firmly charta- 
Veing boone revolute, obsoletely ciliate, 2-3 by pas in.; lateral 
Puberul a 7-9 pairs, slender, not conspicuous ; petiole To-# in. long, 
lon Wous ; stipnles subulate, puberulous, 3~} in. long. Flowers 4 in. 
alan Pentamerons, nearly glabrous outside, few together on short 
“* Puberulous pedicels, in abbreviated axillary clusters which 
