80 LXX. RUBIACEX (HIERN). [ Stipularia. 
1. S. africana, P. de Beaw. Fl. d’Ow. ii. 26, t. 75 (1807). A 
shrub, 6 ft. high, hispid at the extremities of the obtusely quadrangular 
shoots and margins of petioles. Leaves oval-obovate, sub-cuspidate, 
wedge-shaped at the base, glabrate above except midrib, pale yellowish 
and obsoletely tomentose beneath, 5-11 by 2-4 in.; petiole $~1 in. ; 
lateral veins 17-22 on each side of the midrib; stipules ovate, 1-1} in. 
long. Involucre nearly equalling the stipules, sessile, unequally 
4-5-cleft or toothed, angular and subplicate; bracteoles oval-oblong, 
equalling or shorter than the flowers, ciliate. Flowers several together, 
subsessile, rather shorter than the involucre, slender, dirty yellow 
(according to P. de Beauvois). Calyx scarcely half the length of the 
flower. Corolla glabrous outside. Style-branches 3; ovary 3-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Oware and Galbar, P. de Beauvois ; Bagroo River, Mann! ; 
Corisco Island, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
Grows in swampy ground or by rivers. 
2. S. elliptica, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. A small shrub, 4-5 ft. 
high, somewhat cottony at the extremities of the obtusely quadrangular 
branches and outside the involucres. Leaves elliptical, apiculate, 
wedge-shaped or obtuse at the base, glabrate above, paler and cottony- 
subtomentose beneath, 24-8 by 1-44 in.; petiole 1-3 in., pubescent 
or glabrescent; lateral veins 10-14 on each side of the midrib; 
stipules ovate-lanceolate, 4-4 in. long. Involucre 1-1} in. long oF 
nearly so, red or purple inside, shortly and unequally 3—5-cleft, sub- 
sessile or, with common peduncle, ranging up to 4 in.; bracteoles 
very short, hairy. Flowers many together, shorter than the involucres, 
sessile, white. Calyx less than half the length of the flowers. Corolla 
glabrous outside. Style-branches 5; ovary 5-celled. Berry 5-celled, 
compressed, } in. broad. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Onitsha, Barter! 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
3. S. gabonica, Hiern. A climbing shrub, appressedly but in- 
conspicuously pubescent towards the extremities, of a pale yellowish 
green colour. Leaves oval, acute or acuminate at both ends, hairy 
along the margin, 4-6 by 14-21 in.; petiole 3-2} in., appressedly 
pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, 4 in. long, appressedly pubescent out- 
side. Flowers 3-3 in long, on short pedicels, many together, crowded 
in hemispherical shortly pedunculate axillary subterminal heads © 
about 1} in. diam. ; common peduncle about } in. long, appressedly 
pubescent; involucral bracts broadly ovate, 3-1 in. long, puberulous. 
Calyx-limb narrowly tubular, 4-2 in. long, appressedly pubescent, uD- 
equally 5-cleft ; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla densely silky outside, 
shortly exceeding the calyx-limb ; lobes 5, short, valvate in sestivation- 
Ovary 5-celled ; ovules numerous, small. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann! 
22. HEINSIA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 77. 
_ Calyx-tube campanulate or oblong in flower, globular in fruit; 
limb 5-partite, persistent ; lobes enlarged, more or less oval or oblong; 
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