Gardenia. } LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 103 
margins rather undulate, lateral veins about 8-10 pairs; stipules 
ovate, rather acute or acuminate, 4-4 in. long, clasping. Flowers 
solitary, fragrant, subsessile, lateral, glabrescent, 3-33 in. long. Calyx- 
limb elongated, tube narrowly obconical; lobes 6-7, spathulate, folia- 
ceous, 4-1 in. long, glabrous. Corolla salver-shaped, white, glabrous ; 
tube slender, exceeding the calyx; limb 3 in. diameter, 6—7-partite ; 
lobes oval-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, 14-14 in. long, reflexed. 
Anthers equalling the corolla-tube. Stigma just exserted, 4-lobed. 
Ovary narrowly turbinate. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Whitfield. 
6. G. Vogelii, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. t. 782-8. A glabrous 
unarmed shrub, 8-15 ft. high. Branches not verticillate. Leaves as 
Well as the branches opposite, not ternate, oval or obovate-oblong, 
cuspidate or acuminate, obliquely narrowed or rounded or subauriculate 
at the base, chartaceous, 3-10 by 1-33 in. long, paler beneath ; lateral 
veins about 8-10 pairs; petiole short or ranging up to 1 in. ; stipules 
Connate or contiguous at base, ovate, clasping, about 3 in. long. 
Flowers solitary, terminal, very shortly pedunculate, white, fragrant, 
about 6 in, long ; peduncle girt by the uppermost stipules. Calyx- 
limb narrowly oblong, terete, persistent, 1 in. long, shortly and some- 
times unequally laciniate; teeth erect, acute. Corolla-tube slender ; 
mb Spreading ; lobes 5, linear-oblong, obtuse, about 2 in. long, dex- 
trorsely contorted in bud (as seen from inside). Anthers included. 
Fruit elongate-fusiform, 21-3-4 in. long, 4-14 in. thick, greenish. 
Placentas 3.—Hook. Niger Fl. p. 381, t. 38-9 (1849). 
Upper Guinea. Nj é . el! Barter! 
Nile Lana. Niammeried Shao etn ! Djur-land, Schweinfurth in Bot. 
Zeit. 1871, Pp. 329 (used as a paint for the body). 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
7. &. Manganje, Hiern. A handsome shrub, glabrescent ex- 
cept the flowers. Branches opposite. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, 
narrowed at the base, firmly chartaceous, 3-44 by 1~2 in., margins 
Subrevolute ; petiole 3-2 in. ; stipules deltoid, short. Flowers solitary, 
lat in. long, on very short bracteate peduncles constituting abbreviated 
ateral branches ; bracts imbricated, deltoid, short, like the stipules. 
he oblong, about 4 in. long; limb } in., 5-toothed at the apex, 
slabrate outside, hairy inside; teeth short, broad, apiculate. Corolla 
shortly hairy on both sides, funnel-campanulate ; narrow part of the 
: exceeding the calyx, limb 14—2 in. diameter; lobes oval, rather 
mnie? Sbout ? in. long, contorted dextrorsely in the bud (as seen from 
side). Anthers and style included. Placenta solitary. 
‘ith ar @mb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Manganja Hills, Meller! Tshiradzura Moun- 
» alt. 4000 ft., Kirk s 
t 8. G. Anna, P. Wright in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. xxiv. p. 575, 
* 28 (1869) ; var. Moramballe, Hiern. Glabrescent. Branches 
Tather Slender, not verticillate. Leaves elliptical, mostly acuminate, 
edge-shaped at the base, rather paler beneath, firmly chartaceous, 
