92 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [Tarenna. 
margins nearly flat; lateral veins 6-10 on each side of the midrib; 
petioles ranging to 1 in.; stipules wide, 7-3 in. long, subtruncate, 
shortly apiculate. Flowers pentamerous, 1-14 in. long, on pedicels 
. ranging up to 4 in. long, in comparatively lax terminal cymes. 
Calyx 4; in. long, subtruncate, minutely dentate. Corolla-tube 
narrowly cylindrical slightly funnel-shaped, green outside ; limb ? in. 
diam., white inside. Anthers }-2 in. long. Style exserted as far as the 
anthers or rather farther, somewhat hairy on the middle part. Ovules 
4 together, compressed, discoid.—Stylocoryne grandiflora, Benth. in 
Hook. Niger Fl. p. 390. 
Upper Guinea.. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Barter! Mann! 
10. ©. nigrescens, Hiern. Glabrous except the style the throat of 
the corolla and inside the stipules. Leaves lanceolate or oval, obtuse, 
wedge-shaped at base, glossy above, black in the dry state, 1-3 by 
3-14 in. ; lateral veins 5-6, vague ; margins slightly thickened beneath; 
petiole 4-4 in.; stipules deltoid, obtuse, 3 in. long, bearded 
within, with scarious margins. Flowers 4—5-merous, 4 in. long, ex- 
clusive of the anthers and style, on drooping pedicels ranging up to 
3 in. which are bibracteolate in the middle, in lax many-flowered 
cymes. Calyx truncate, campanulate, subentire. Corolla-lobes oblong; 
obtuse, } in. long; throat bearded. Anthers }-} in. long. Style 
hairy in the middle, exserted as far as the anthers. Ovules 3 together, 
sessile, inserted side by side on the upper part of the placenta.— 
Coptosperma nigrescens, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. u. 
p. 87, quoad flores. 
Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa, Kirk! 
27. ENTEROSPERMUM, Hiern. 
Calyx campanulate or cup-shaped, glabrous; limb short, with 5 
small erect persistent teeth open in wstivation. Corolla funnel-shaped ; 
tube shortly exserted glabrous outside ; throat puberulous ; lobes 95, 
dextrorsely contorted in wstivation as seen from outside, oval, spread- 
ing. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla, glabrous, 
exserted ; anthers linear, fixed at the back above the base, versatile ; 
filaments short. Disk annular, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled; style 
glabrous above, somewhat pubescent below, exserted, about equalling 
the corolla, thinly club-shaped above ; stigma undivided ; ovules 2-3 
together, collateral; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit pisiform, 1- or 
incompletely 2-celled; pericarp thinly fleshy ; endocarp crustaceous- 
Seed solitary ; testa thin, deeply intruded into the transverse rumina- 
tions of the horny albumen. Embryo nearly straight, small ; radicle 
terete, inferior—A glabrous rigid shrub, with opposite obtuse cor 
aceous leaves, rather large ovate interpetiolar undivided caducous 
stipules, and rather small white hermaphrodite flowers arranged 1 
minutely bracteolate terminal pedunculate corymbose panicles. 
A new endemic genus. 
rueenebneemeiinee ees. 
