96 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Randia. 
near the apex, acute, reflexed, minutely ciliolate; tube shaggy inside. . 
Stamens exserted. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. WC. Thomson! “apparently a parasite. 
Flowers herbaceous, with a touch of red, March.” 
5. R. pallens, Hiern. A pallid tree, 40 feet high, puberulous 
towards the extremities. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acuminate, wedge- 
shaped at the very shortly petiolate base, chartaceous, 3-6 by 13-24 in. ; 
lateral veins about 5-6 pairs; stipules deltoid, apiculate, puberulons, 
deciduous, 4 in. long. Flowers # in. long (in full bud), oblong, on 
short pedicels, in shortly pedunculate corymbose cymes of }-1} in. 
Calyx campanulate-oblong, 3 in. long, puberulous, subtruncate, with 5 
minute teeth. Corolla felted outside; tube rather exceeding the calyx; 
lobes obtuse, oblong. Fruit 2-celled, globose, puberulous, (immature ?) 
din. diam., crowded by the calyx-limb. 
Upper Guinea. St. Thomas, 2000 ft. alt., Mann! 
6. R. gambica, Hiern. Minutely puberulous towards the extre- 
mities, glabrescent below, not spinous. Leaves elliptical, obtusely 
narrowed at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, shortly 
petiolate or subsessile, not pallid, 24-44 by 14-24 in.; lateral veins 
about 7-8 pairs; stipules apparently short. >... Flowers 4-3 in. 
long, on rather shorter pedicels, glabrous, pentamerous, several together 
in opposite subterminal pedunculate corymbs of about 2 in. diam, ; 
common peduncle about 2 in. long ; bracteoles very short. Calyx 4m. 
long; limb half-cleft; lobes rounded, foliaceous, imbricated. Corolla 
4-cleft, lobes rounded, dextrorsely contorted in the bud (as seen 
inside) ; throat glabrous. Anthers sessile, inserted by the middle of 
the back on the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled; placentas 2; ovules 
numerous. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Gambia River, Whitfield! 
7. R? caudata, Hiern. A trichotomously branched shrub, 15 feet 
high. Branches terete rather slender, pubescent when young with 
ascending hairs. Leaves obovate-elliptical, caudate-acuminate, ob- 
lique rounded or on one side subauriculate at the base, glabrous except 
the veins beneath, toughly membranous, very shortly petiolate, 4-5 by 
14-24 in., sometimes three together; lateral veins about 8-11 pair; 
stipules ovate, caudate-acuminate, }-} in. long. Flowers pentamerous ?, 
solitary, terminating short branches in the forks of longer ones, erect, 
2-24 in. long; peduncles very short, bracteate at base. Calyx scarcely 
4 in. long, oblong, pubescent, with tawny appressed hairs ; teeth 5?, 
linear-subulate, 4-} in. long, erect. Corolla white; tube slender, @P- 
pressedly pubescent; limb puberulous inside, deeply lobed ; lobes 4?, 
lanceolate, 3-+ in. long, acute, dextrorsely contorted in sestivation- 
Anthers ineluded. 
Upper Guinea. 1°N. lat. Sierra del Crystal, Mann/ A single specimen with 
one flower not available for dissection. 
8. R. maculata, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 388. A much-branched shrub. 
10-15 feet high, nearly glabrate. Branches sometimes three together. 
