102 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Gardenia. 
ceeding the ovary, hairy inside; limb often irregularly lobed ; lobes 
obtuse, glabrous, mostly }—3 in. long, apparently starting from below 
the apex of the truncate tube. Corolla-tube glabrous outside or 
nearly so; throat thinly bearded; limb 14-3 in. diameter; lobes 
rounded. Style shortly pubescent, stout ; stigma 6—ll-lobed. Ovary 
1-celled ; placentas 6-11. Fruit as large as a common egg, somewhat 
flattened, green; pericarp woody; seeds plentiful, flattened.—Decameria 
Jovis-tonantis, Welw. Apontamentos, p. 579, nota 12. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Alta Queta, Welwitsch! Bumbo, Welwitsch ! 
Perhaps only a variety of the variable G. Thunbergia, Linn. f. 
3. G. resiniflua, Hiern. An hispidulous or scabrid bush of 12 
ft. high, with resinous secretion ; branches often ternate, leafy towards 
the extremities. Leaves obovate, cuspidate, narrowed towards the 
oblique subsessile base, 1-24 by 2-14 in. ; lateral veins opaque, rather 
close, parallel ; stipules shortly sheathing. Flowers solitary, terminal, 
about 1 in. long, pentamerous, shortly pedunculate ; peduncle slender, 
girt by the uppermost stipules. Calyx shortly hairy, about 3 in. long, 
persistent, with short subglobose tube ; lobes subfoliaceous, linear or 
linear-oblong, 4 in. long, obtuse. Corolla salver-shaped, fragrant, 
puberulous ; lobes. oval, obtuse, dextrorsely contorted in bud, white, 
turning yellowish, 4 in. long. Fruit globose, 4-4 in. diameter, pu- 
berulous ; pericarp thin; placentas 2. 
Mozamb. Distr. Lake Nyassa, Cape Maclear, Lupata and Tete, Kirk! 
4. G. assimilis, Herb. Afzel. Shrubby, glabrous, pallid, un- 
armed. Branches terete, 4—2-nate. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 
three, oval or obovate, much acuminate, wedge-shaped and subequal at 
the base, glossy, pallid on both sides especially beneath, chartaceous, 
ranging up to 4 by 14 in.; lateral veins about 5—7 pairs, opaque; 
nltimate nerves pellucid ; margins flat or nearly so; petiole scarcely any 
or narrowly winged ; stipules connate below, ovate, }-% in. Flowers 
subsessile or shortly pedunculate, 4 in. long, solitary in each terminal 
axil, ie. usually 3 together, terminal or terminating short shoots. 
Calyx-tube oblong ; free portion tubular, 4 in. long, 3-} in. diameter, 
foliaceous, glabrous except the sparsely, sometimes hispid, tube, oF 
ciliolate truncate margin, furnished outside just below the truncate 
margin with 6 somewhat unequal, spathulate, obtuse, foliaceous, gla- 
brous lobes of 3—} by {4 in. Corolla-tube very slender, glabrous: 
limb 3 in. diameter, 6-partite ; segments oval; anthers included. 
Ovary glabrous, 1-celled; ovules numerous, not immersed in the 3 
parietal placentas. Stigma subcapitate, 3-cleft at apex. Fruit fusiform, 
34 by 1 in., longitudinally wrinkled ; pericarp woody, not very thick; 
placentas 3. Seeds numerous, compressed, } by } in. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Herb. Afzelius! Brass! Wilford! 
E. G@. nitida, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4343. A glabrescent shrub; 
branches not ternate. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acuminate, attenuate 
to the subsessile or shortly petiolate base, glossy, 4~6 by 14-23 I» 
