76 LXX. RUBIACEX (HIERN). [ Sabicea. 
2. S. calycina, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 399. A twining or 
trailing shrub of 1-20 ft.; branches sometimes rooting, glabrate. 
Leaves oval-ovate, subacuminate, obtuse or excavated at the base, sub- 
glabrous except the pilose nerves beneath, 1-5 by 4-2} in. ; lateral veins 
7-12 on each side of the midrib; petiole ranging up to 1 in. or 
more; stipules broadly ovate, acute, 1-4 in. long. Flowers }-} in. 
long, glabrous, subsessile, several together in subglobose capitate 
pedunculate cymes }-1 in. diam. ; peduncles 1-34 in. long, glabrous ; 
bracts 4-4 in. long, broad, involucrate. Calyx-tube short; lobes 
3-5, unequal, foliaceous, oval, reddish or white, 1-4 by }-} in. Corolla 
white outside; lobes 5, short, ovate. Style 4-5-cleft. Fruit 4-0- 
celled, } in. diameter. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Barter! Mann! Niger, Barter! 
3. S. pilosa, Hiern. A prostrate and climbing undershrub, 
10 ft. high, with terete pilose-hirsute shoots, leaves, petioles, bracts 
and peduncles. Leaves obovate-elliptical, shortly and acutely acumi- 
nate, attenuate at the base, thin, 31-7 by 14-21 in.; petiole 1-3 in. ; 
lateral veins 12-14, inconspicuous ; stipules ovate, caudate-acute, re- 
flexing, 3-2 in. long, glabrous inside. Flowers 3—# in. long, sessile, 
a few together in shortly pedunculate usually clustered lateral capitate 
cymes; bracts about 6, ovate, }-4 in., involucrate. Calyx-tube short, 
densely-pilose ; lobes 5-6, elliptic-lanceolate, unequal, ciliate and 
somewhat pilose, membranous, coloured ?, mostly acute, erect-patent. 
Corolla silky outside, not exceeding the calyx; lobes 5, lanceolate. 
Anthers 5, sessile at the thinly bearded throat of the corolla. Style 
5-cleft at apex, glabrous. Disk glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Corisco Bay, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
4. S. Vogelii, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 398. A twining 
shrub, with terete glabrescent branches. Leaves oval or ovate, 
acuminate, obtuse and oblique at the base, sparsely and appressedly 
pilose at least above, hairy on the veins beneath, 14-4 by 3-19 in., oF 
the upper ones smaller ; lateral veins about 8 on each side of the 
midrib ; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules varying from subrotund to linear, 
about + in. Jong. Flowers 46-merous, about 4 in. long, white, 
shortly pedicellate, many together in globose pedunculate subcapitate 
cymes of about | in. diameter ; common peduncle 3-2 in. ; bracts 2-4, 
ovate or oblong, }-4 in. long. Calyx-tube shaggy, short ; lobes linear, 
4-+-# in. long, spreading, persistent, glabrous inside. Corolla lobes 
short, shaggy outside, glabrous inside, ovary 5-celled. Fruit 4 in. 
iam. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, 7h. Vogel! Barter! Afzelius ! Smeathman! 
Var. villosior, Benth. 1. c. p. 399. More hairy ; flower heads subsessile. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! (flowers white.) 
5. S$. capitellata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p.398. A climbing shrub 
of 12-15 ft. Leaves oval, shortly acuminate, rounded or wedge-shap 
and somewhat oblique at the hase, subglabrescent above exceP 
puberulous midrib, pale and shortly cottony beneath with appressedly 
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