88 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Leptactina. 
3. L. senegambica, Hook. f. Ic. Pl. sub t. 1092. Nearly glabres- 
cent, much branched. Branchlets obtusely quadrangular, rigid. Leaves 
elliptical, obtusely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, rigid, subses- 
sile, ranging up to 34 by 14 in.; margins reflexed; lateral veins 6-8 
on each side of midrib; stipules ovate, caudate-acuminate, nearly 
flat, erect, ciliolate, 4-3 in. long, persistent. Flowers 2-3 in. long, 
subsessile, in small dense cymes; bracteoles linear-subulate. Calyx- 
tube pubescent; lobes lanceolate, acute, rigid, obscurely ciliolate, 
3-1 in. long, subfoliaceous or subglumaceous. Corolla-lobes ovate, 
mucronate, # in. long, shortly and appressedly hairy outside, glabrous 
inside. Style puberulous above, exserted; branches slender. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Randia (Genipantha), sp. n., Benth. 
in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 387. Crauford’s Island (Sierra Leone?), Hd. Afzelius/ (state 
with subglumaceous calyx-lobes and less exserted style). 
Habit of H:insia gasminiflora, DC. 
4. &. heinsioides, Hiern. Branches hispidulous or glabrate, terete. 
Leaves elliptic-obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, firmly char- 
taceous, glabrate and glossy above, strigulose on the midrib and on the 
5-7 pairs of slender lateral veins, 2-23 by 3-3 in.; petiole } in. ; stipules 
nearly flat, erect, } in. long or rather more. Flowers 2 in. long, 
puberulous outside, about 3-4 together, subsessile ; bracteoles ovate, 
acute, rather small. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate and scarcely 4 in. 
long in flower, linear and 2-3 in. long in fruit. Corolla-lobes ovate, 
Zin. long. Anthers 1 in. long. Style hirsute above. Fruit 3 in. 
long. Seeds 4!5 by y!; in.—Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. xv. p. 91 
(1876), sine descriptione. 
South Central. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron! 
26. TARENNA, Gaertn. Fruct. i. p. 139, t. 28, f. 3 (1788). (Webera, 
Schreb. (1791); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 86; Copto- 
sperma, Hook. f. (part.) in Benth. et Hook. f., 1. c. quoad flores.) 
Calyx-tube campanulate turbinate or shortly tubular ; limb small, 
5—6- rarely 4-toothed cleft partite or subtruncate. Corolla salver- oF 
funnel-shaped ; tube long or short; limb 5-6- rarely 4-partite, spread- 
ing; lobes oblong, dextrorsely contorted in sstivation (as seen from 
iuside). Stamens 5-6, rarely 4, inserted at,the mouth of the corolla; 
anthers narrowly elliptical or linear, subsessile, attached at the back 
near the base, glabrous. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary 2-celled ; style 
long, usually exserted; ovules numerous or rarely few, peltately 
attached to the fleshy placentas. Berry pisiform, 2-celled ; cells usually 
l- or few-seeded. Seeds not minute, usually rounded in front an 
angular on the sides with one or more pits.—Shrubs or trees wit 
opposite shortly petiolate leaves, shortly ovate or subtruncate stipules 
and whitish flowers of moderate size in terminal and subterminal brac- 
teolate cymes. 
A genus occurring also in Madagascar, Seychelles, Asia and Australia. The flowers 
are rarely tetramerous in one Indian species according to Wight and Arnott, Prod- 
romus Fl. Penins. p. 401. 
