106 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Macrosphyra. 
centas. Berry pyriform-globose; seeds numerous, compressed, im- 
mersed in pulp.—A scandent shrub, with terete branches leafy at the 
extremities, hirsute opposite petiolate deciduous leaves, rather large 
glabrescent glumaceous stipules imbricating below the uppermost 
leaves, and long subsessile flowers clustered at the extremities of the 
branches. 
A monotypic genus. 
1. M. longistyla, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 86. Shoots tawny-hirsute. Leaves oval broadly ovate or obovate, 
more or less acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtuse or even excavated at 
the base, submembranous, 2-7 by 1-43 in. ; lateral veins 6-8 on each 
side of midrib; margins flat; petiole 4-1? in.; stipules ovate, }~1 in. 
long, deciduous, acute or apiculate. Flowers fragrant, cream-coloured, 
14-8 in., exclusive of the style which is exserted nearly by as much 
more. Calyx 4-4 in. long, pubescent. Corolla-tube hirsute-pubescent 
outside ; limb #-1} in. diameter. Anthers }-}in. long. Style green. 
Fruit 13-2 by 14-1}? in.—Randia longistyla, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 388. 
Gardenia longistyla, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4322. Oxyanthus villosus, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 494. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner! Boivin! Leprieur and Perrottet ! 
Roussilion ; Sierra Leone, Whitfield ! and others ; Abbeokuta, /rving / Barter! Bagroo 
River, Mann! Dahomey, Burton ! 
Wile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth / 
Cultivated in Jamaica, and introduced into England. 
Gardenia paleacea, A. Rich. in Mém. Soe. Hist. Nat. Rar. v. 241, 294 (1834), may 
possibly belong here. 
31. OXYANTHUS, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 
p- 91. 
Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate-oblong; limb erect, short, 
glabrous inside, truncate or 5-cleft; teeth usually subulate. Corolla 
salver-shaped ; tube elongated, very slender, cylindrical, much exceed- 
ing the calyx ; throat glabrous; limb 5-partite, spreading or reflexed ; 
lobes narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, acuminate, dextrorsely contorted 
in the bud (as seen from inside). Stamens 5, inserted at the mouth 
of the corolla-tube; anthers linear, exserted, glabrous, sessile or sub- 
sessile, acuminate. Disk cushion-like, annular. Ovary 2-celled ; 
style very slender, usually exserted, glabrous ; stigma usually fusiform 
or narrowly clab-shaped, bifid at the tip; ovules numerous, not 1m- 
mersed in the two fleshy placentas. Fruit baccate, oblong-elliptical or 
subglobose, terete or ribbed, 2—1-celled ; pericarp coriaceous or fleshy: 
Seeds usually numerous, in one species solitary in the cells, rather 
large ; testa fibrous ; albumen copious, firmly fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, 
foliaceous, as long as the terete radicle—Shrubs or trees with sub- 
terete branches, opposite shortly petiolate leaves, ovate stipules, and 
usually white flowers in axillary racemes or panicles. 
A genus confined to Africa, containing three species in the Cape Flora and the 
following :— 
