Bertiera.] LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 85 
5-toothed, persistent; teeth ovate, pointed. Corolla acutely pointed 
in the bud. Disk cup-shaped, equalling the calyx, subtruncate, ob- 
scurely 5-lobed. Fruit depresso-globose, + in. diameter, marked faintly 
with about 9-10 longitudinal ribs, glabrate. Seeds angular, small. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, 4/zelius ! 
7. B. laxa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 394. A puberulous or 
glabrescent shrub, 12-15 feet high. Leaves oval-oblong, acutely 
acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 14-8 by 3-21 in.; lateral 
veins 6-10 on each side of the midrib, slender; petiole 3-3 in.; 
stipules very shortly sheathing, 3-1 in. long, free portion ovate-lanceo- 
te. Flowers #? in. long, slender, shortly and appressedly hairy, 
gteen, sessile or subsessile, in divaricately branched lax terminal 
pedunculate cymes 33-7 in. long; bracts subulate, recurving; brac- 
teoles small. Calyx 34, in. long; limb 5-toothed, persistent at the 
apex of the fruit ; teeth deltoid, rather acutely pointed. Corolla-limb 
elongated, glabrous inside, 5-fid; lobes acutely acuminate, dextrorsely 
contorted. Anthers linear-oblong, acute, acutely sagittate at base ; 
filaments short slender inserted at bottom of corolla-limb. Style 
Somewhat clavate, glabrous; branches compressed, linear-oblong. 
erry in. diameter, feebly ribbed. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Mann! Sierra Leone, Smeathman! 
In fruit and Afzelius! in flower (small-leaved and apparently subscandent forms with 
ess acute corolla-buds). 
_ Var.? pedicellata. A laxer attenuated form having lanceolate-oblong leaves, 
stipules $-} in. long with lanceolate-acuminate apex, and pedicellate flowers. 
Upper Guinea. St. Thomas Island, at the summit of the peak, Mann! 
A specimen fr.m Lower Guinea, Congo, collected by Chr. Smith, in young flower, 
appears to belong to Bertiera laxa, Benth. 
Fa Wendlandia sulcata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 519, from Sierra Leone in woods on 
€ banks of rivers, is unknown to me; perhaps it may belong to this species. 
8. B. breviflora, Hiern. A small shrub with appressedly pubes- 
Cent branches. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, rounded or wedge-shaped 
y the base, glabrescent above, pubescent beneath at least on the veins, 
oe . y $2 in.; lateral veins about 6 on each side of the midrib ; pe- 
ole 3-4 in. ; stipules shortly tubular, glabrous inside, 1-3 in. ; free 
Portion ovate. Flowers about 4 in. long, sessile, pubescent, unilateral 
n the divaricate branches of the terminal cymes which measure 3-5 in. 
half 4 Bracteoles lanceolate, obtuse, nearly equalling the calyx. Calyx 
siste the length of the flower, larger in fruit ; limb deeply lobed, per- 
cam nt; lobes lanceolate or oblong, about equalling the ovary. Corolla 
bene 5-lobed; lobes 4 the length of the tube, obtuse, dextrorsely 
thro ris d or sometimes imbricated in the bud as regarded from inside ; 
bey hairy. Berry subglobose, } in. diam. Seeds angular. 
PPer Guinea. Niger Expedition, at Eppah, Barter / Gaboon River, Mann ! 
24. DICTYANDRA, Welw. ex Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
PL. ii. p. 85. 
Hike x-tube turbinate or oblong in flower, subglobose in fruit ; limb 
Ply 5-lobed, with a few short erect fleshy sete at base ; lobes equal, 
