Heinsia.] LXX. RUBIACEE® (HIERN). 81 
longer than the tube, subfoliaceons. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
slender silky outside; throat densely bearded; limb spreading, un- 
equally 5—6-lobed, large, imbricated in sstivation. Stamens 5-6, in- 
serted on the throat of the corolla, included ; anthers linear; filaments 
short. Disk small, tumid. Ovary 2-celled; style rather slender ; 
branches 2, shortly linear; cells many-ovuled. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 
many-seeded. Seeds small, roundly angular; testa pale, crustaceous, 
foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo clavate.—An endemic genus, con- 
sisting of erect or decumbent shrubs with opposite shortly petiolate 
leaves, small subuiate or larger and ovate stipules, and rather large white 
flowers, solitary, few, or many together in terminal and lateral cymes. 
Stipules small, subulate, two together. 
Glabrous or puberulous. Flowers solitary or in lax 
, cymes ee ee ee ee ee ee we LL jasminifiora, 
Hirsute-hispid. Flowers in dense cymes . . . . « 2. H, densiflora. 
Stipules rather large, ovate or lanceolate, solitary . . . 3. A. benguelensis. 
l. H. jasminifiora, DC. Prodr. iv. 390. An erect shrub, 
6-15 feet high, sometimes subarborescent, glabrous or puberulous. 
ranches terete, green when young, soon turning brown. Leaves 
elliptical, more or less acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtuse at the base, 
shortly petiolate, 1-4 by 4-13 in. or occasionally smaller ; lateral veins 
4 or 5 on each side of the midrib ; stipules two together, subulate or 
lanceolate-subulate, } in. long or shorter, caducous. Flowers fragrant, 
Several together or solitary in lax terminal cymes; pedicels rather 
Sort or ranging up to 1d in. Calyx-lobes oval oblong or spathulate, 
obtuse or acute, attenuate at base, green, }-% in. long. Corolla-tube 
appressedly pubescent, 2-1 in. long, green; limb very variable in size, 
23 in. diameter, pubescent with yellow hairs, white; lobes acuminate 
or obtuse, margins usually crisped ; throat bearded with yellow hairs. 
; ¢ in. diameter.—Bot. Mag. t. 4207 ; Gardenia crinita, Afzel. ! 
Stirp. Guin. Medic. Sp. Nov. p. 13, n. 5 (1829) ; ? HL pubescens, Klotzsch, 
Schoenl. Bot. Nachl. Palmas, p.228 (1857); @. pulchella, G. Don in 
dinb. Phil. Journ. xi. p. 343 (1824). 
Sehog Pe Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathman! and other collectors, ? Cape Palmas, 
”; Fernando Po, 7h. Vogel! Barter! Mann! Prince’s Island, Barter! 
‘wer Guinea, Loango, Soyaux ! 
Zanzii,e et, Distr. Zambesia, R. Shire, Kirk! Quilimane, Kirk! Bagomojo, 
Dar Sala coast, Kirk! Hildebrandt! Moramballa, Kirk! Rovuma River, Kirk: 
alam, stunted form, Kirk / 
- = Hq. densifiora, Hiern. A hirsute-hispid shrub, with tawny 
€truginous hairs. Leaves elliptical, acutely acuminate, rounded or 
dens pPpermost narrowed at the base, sparingly hispid above, more 
of th y hairy beneath, 3-6 by 1-2 in. ; lateral veins 7-10 on each side 
.. © midrib, inconspicuous ; petiole }-} in.; stipules two together, 
°rm-subulate, 4-4 in. Flowers about 1-1} in. long, sessile, many 
ea ‘tr, n short dense terminal and lateral cymes. Calyx-lobes oval- 
den, te 8-§ in. long. Corolla-tube densely pubescent outside, very 
~Y bearded within with yellow hairs; limb 1}-1# in. diameter ; 
* caudate-acuminate. 
YOu, 1 Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk! , 
