78 LXX, RUBIACEA (HIERN). [ Sabicea. 
merous, shortly pedicellate, many together in lateral abbreviated 
puberulous cymes, #-1 in. diam. Calyx-limb shortly tubular with 
linear or lanceolate lobes 3-4 in. long. Corolla hairy in the bud. 
Ovary 2-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann! St. Thomas Island, Mann! 
9. S.? geantha, Hiern. A nearly glabrous (erect) shrub, 10 ft. 
high. Leaves oval, acuminate at both ends, glossy above, ranging 
up to 12 by 54 in.; petiole to 14 in.; lateral veins 20-27 on each 
side of the midrib, rather slender; stipules ovate, acute, 1-1} in. 
long. Flowers shortly pedicellate, pentamerous, about 1 in. long, 
slender, many together in subglobose lateral puberulous cymes, 
1-2 in. diam., near the ground. Calyx-limb shortly tubular, with 
linear-filiform lobes about + in. long. Corolla narrowly tubular, 
glabrous ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Ovary 2-celled; style bilamellate. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
19. TEMNOPTERYX, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 72. 
Calyx-tube campanulate in flower, globose in fruit ; limb 5-partite, 
segments more or less unequal, at first subulate, some or all more 
or less early produced into dilated foliaceous petiolate lobes, per- 
sistent. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, scarcely membranous, silky on 
both sides; throat rigidly bearded ; limb 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, valvate 
in estivation. Stamens 5, inserted about the middle of the corolla; 
anthers linear ; filaments short. Disk annular, inconspicuous. Ovary 
5-celled; style cleft into 5 linear lobes; ovules very numerous, in- 
serted on thick placentas. Fruit subglobose, truncate or depressed 
at the apex, coriaceous, with 5 longitudinal furrows, 5-celled ; dis- 
sepiments thin ; seeds numerous.—A monotypic genus, with opposite 
petiolate leaves, multifid ample interpetiolar stipules, and rather large 
flowers clustered in dense axillary cymes, which are each sheathed by 
a basal bract. 
1. T. sericea, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 72. A 
sturdy herb, 2-3 ft. high, covered on the short lower side of leaves (at 
least on the veins) and flowers with rufous shining silky hairs. 
Leaves oblanceolate, 5-14 by 2-34 in., candate-acuminate, attenuate 
at the base ; petiole 4-2 in. ; lateral veins about 10-16 pairs ; stipules 
about 1 in. long, lobes subulate. Flowers about %-] in. long, many 
together, sessile or subsessile, in a pedunculate head, enclosed at the 
base by a membranous coloured? campanulate plurifid bract 0 
in.; bracteoles lanceolate ‘or subulate. Lamina of the enlarg 
calyx-lobes cuspidate varying from orbicular to oval or oblong, ranging 
up tolin. Fruit 3-% in. diam. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. lat., Mann? 
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