Randia. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 95 
2, R. acuminata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p.385. A shrub or 
small tree, 6-20 ft. high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves obovate- or 
oval-oblong acuminate obliquely auriculate-cordate or rounded at the 
subsessile base, chartaceous, with 13-16 pairs of lateral veins, 4-12 by 
13-43 in. or those shorter from the axils of which the cymes proceed ; 
stipules depresso-deltoid cuspidate or apiculate. Flowers 3-3 in. long, 
subsessile or shortly pedicellate, somewhat secund on the branches of 
the shortly pedunculate axillary cymes of 1-3 in.; bracteoles small, 
depresso-deltoid, ciliolate. Calyx deep-green, 4-# in., narrowly funnel- 
shaped, truncate, minutely dentate. Corolla of a deep-rose colour or 
white; tube equalling or shortly exceeding the calyx; lobes ovate, 
acuminate, }~2 in. long, spreading or reflexed ; throat naked. Stamens 
Included or nearly so. Style just exserted, with short spreading 
branches. Fruit ovoid or conical, often pointed, ribbed, 1j-4 by 
$-8 in. Seeds somewhat compressed, obtusely triangular, } in. long.’ 
—Gardenia ? acuminata, G. Don! Gen. Syst. ii. p. 499. Pomatiwm 
dubium, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 505, fide Benth. 1. ¢. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! G. Don! Nun River, Th. Vogel! Brass, 
rter! Fernando Po, Mann! 1°N. lat., Gaboon River, Mann! 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
3. R. genipefiora, DO. Prodr. iv. p. 389. A shrub or tree 
ranging up to 20 feet high, glabrate except the calyx bracteoles &c. 
aves oval or oblong, acuminate, more or less wedge-shaped at the 
®, chartaceous, ranging up to 6 by 24 in. ; lateral veins 6-7 pairs; 
petiole 1-3 in, ; stipules deltoid or lanceolate, cuspidate or apiculate, 
Ciliolate. “Flowers about 2 in. long, on pedicels of $+ in., in short 
ensely bracteolate axillary cymes. Calyx green, puberulous ; limb 
about half the length of the’ corolla-tube, oblong, subtruncate, with 5 
port lanceolate-subulate distant teeth. Corolla greenish-white, gla- 
Tous; tube cylindrical, slender ; lobes lanceolate-oblong, spreading or 
ered, 4-2 in. long. Anthers filiform, exserted, rather shorter than 
© corolla-lobes. Style branches exserted. Fruit globose, 2 in. diam., 
“rowned with the calyx-limb or its remains. 
Kiger Guinea. Senegambia, Smeathman, Heudelot ! Siera Leone, Afzelius! 
! Barter! Niger, Th. Vogel! Fernando Po, ‘Wild coffee,’ Barter! Mann! 
0 River, Mann! Cape Coast, Brass ! 
ti 1 R. rubens, Hiern. A climbing glabrous shrub. Leaves ellip- 
*a', Somewhat acuminate, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, in the 
lay rs dark brown above and reddish beneath, 4-6 by 13-2} in.; 
petiol My eins about 6, inconspicuous ; margins somewhat. reflexed ; 
— 3-4: in., rather thick; stipules . .. . deciduous. Flowers 
lo long, on pedicels of !,-} in., numerous, in abbreviated sessile 
ang axillary cymes of about 1 in. diam.; bracteoles small, ovate, 
<p Calyx half the length of the flower ; limb coriaceous, tubular, 
bes ovate, ciliolate, spreading. Corolla thinly coriaceous, 
ply lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse or, by the turning back of the sides 
