74 LXX. RUBIACER (HIERN). [ Urophyllum. 
slightly exceed the petiole. Calyx-limb hemispherical, with short teeth, 
persistent, about ;/; in. diameter in flower. Corolla much exceeding 
the calyx; throat bearded; lanceolate. Style puberulous. Ovary 
imperfectly 4celled, at one end only 2-celled. Berry 3 in. diameter. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ 
Very near the East Indian species U. parviflorum, Br., but differs by the smaller 
stipules, fewer flowers, &c. 
6. U. paucinerve, Hiern. A glabrous shrub, 10-15 feet high. 
Shoots terete, slender. Leaves narrowly elliptical, much acuminate, 
attenuate at the base, sabmembranous, 24-4 by 4-1} in.; lateral veins 
7-8 on each side of the midrib; petiole 4-2 in. long; stipules subulate, 
3 in. long; internodes about $4 of the length of leaves. Flowers 
small, on short slender glabrous pedicels in abbreviated axillary cymes. 
Calyx green; teeth lanceolate or ovate. Corolla red. Fruit about 
4 in. diameter. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 4000 feet, Mann! 
7. U. micranthum, Hiern. A puberulous shrub, 8 feet high. 
Branchlets divaricate straight terete slender inconspicuously strigose. 
Leaves ovate-elliptical, acuminate, mucronate, obtuse at the base, 
glossy and glabrous above except midrib, puberulous on the veins 
beneath, submembranous, spreading, 1-3} by 4-1,}, in.; lateral veins 
8-12 on each side of the midrib, slender; petiole ,—} in.; stipules 
needle-shaped, erect, about } in. long; internodes about 4 of the 
length of the leaves. Flowers very small, subsessile, several together, 
in dense axillary abbreviated cymes. Calyx-teeth subulate-filiform, 
rents over the apex of the fruit. Fruit glabrous, ;, in. diameter, 
-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. Lat., Mann? 
8. U. viridiflorum, Schweinf. in Herb. An erect puberulous yel- 
lowish green shrub, 20 feet high. Branchlets obtusely quadrangular. 
Leaves oval-oblong, subacuminate, obtusely wedge-shaped at the base, 
subcoriaceous, ranging up to 53 by 24 in. or more; petiole to 3 in. ; 
lateral veins 15-20 on each side of midrib, depressed on the upper surface; 
stipules ovate, 8-3 in. Flowers 4-} in. long, on very short pedicels, 
several together in dense pedunculate corymbs forming branched quasi- 
terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Calyx short ; limb 5-6-toothed. 
Corolla 4—6-lobed, greenish, much exceeding the calyx. Stamens 
enclosed in the tomentum of the throat of the corolla; connective 
2-dentate ; filaments very short. Style equalling the corolla, pubes- 
cent at the middle. Stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules 
several together. 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, near Munsa, Schweinfurth ! 
18. SABICEA, Aubl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 72. 
Calyx-tnbe campanulate in flower, globular in fruit; limb 3-6- 
usually 5-partite or rarely 5-cleft and then not wider than the inferior 
