Gardenia. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 105 
1}-1} in., lateral veins about 6-9 pairs; petiole 2-2 in. long, puberu- 
lous; stipules short, broad, caducous, leaving a line of hairs above the 
scar. Flowers apparently solitary, terminating abbreviated branches 
in the forks of longer ones; bracts filiform. Calyx-limb with scattered 
hairs outside, shaggy inside, 2 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, caudate- 
acuminate, } in. long. Ovary urceolate-oblong, ]-celled. Placentas 2. 
Fruit ellipsoidal, 2} in. long, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 
12. G@. fernandensis, Hiern. A nearly glabrous shrub, 12 ft. 
high ; branches not verticillate. Leaves oval, subcuspidate, obtuse or 
rounded at the base, chartaceous, 6-8 by 33-44 in., lateral veins about 
6 pairs; petiole 3-13 in.; stipules ovate, obtuse, clasping, ciliolate, 
connate or contiguous at base, 4-4 in. long. Flowers 14-1} in. long, 
shortly pedicellate, in dense corymbose cymes terminating the terminal 
and axillary shoots of the year with leaves as yet not fully developed. 
Calyx-limb campanulate, ;4,—} in. long, green, 5-cleft; lobes ovate, 
obtuse, fimbriate-ciliate. Corolla salver-shaped, white, very fragrant ; 
tube narrow, gradually funnel-shaped above ; limb spreading, 5-partite ; 
lobes oblong, obtuse, dextrorsely contorted in the bud (as seen inside). 
Anthers 5, half exserted. Style filiform ; stigma bifid. Placentas 2. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
13. @.t zanguebarica, Hiern. A densely branched glabrous 
shrub, a yard high or more; branches not verticillate. Leaves elliptical, 
subacuminate, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous. 
344 by 13-1? in., rather shining, lateral veins about 6-8 pairs, not con- 
Spicuous; petiole 4-} in.; stipules ovate acuminate, }-3 in., appressed, 
subpersistent, covering a ring of hairs inside the base. Flowers more 
an 4 in. long, subsessile, a few together, in terminal and quasi- 
axillary short clusters. Calyx-limb 5-partite, } in. long; lobes 
nceolate, acuminate. Ovary l-celled; placentas 2. Fruit (perhaps 
monstrous in the specimen seen) pyriform, 3 in. long. 
Mozamb, Distr. Zanzibar coast, shore-woods at Bagamojo, Hildebrandt ! 
In the absence of the corolla, the genus of this species cannot be satisfactorily 
ascertained ; it may belong to Mitriostigma. 
380. MACROSPHYRA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. PI. ii. p. 86. 
Calyx-tube oblong, equalling the ovary, pubescent; limb 5-partite, 
Persistent; lobes lanceolate-subulate equalling the tube. Corolla 
salver-shaped ; tubes lender, elongated, funnel-shaped and pubescent 
above, glabrous inside; lobes 5, ovate, widely clawed at base, dex- 
trorsely contorted in estivation (as seen from inside). Stamens 5, 
mserted between the corolla-lobes; anthers linear, exserted, sessile, 
glabrous. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary 1-celled; style robust, very 
°ng, glabrous, much exserted ; stigma capitate, bifid, large; ovules 
numerous, inserted in many rows on the two parietal stipitate pla- 
