Oxyanthus. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 107 
Ovules oval or oblong. Seeds numerous. 
Ovary 2-celled. 
Stigma fusiform or narrowly clavate. 
Bracteolate. 
Puberulous or pubescent. 
Leaves wedge-shaped at the base . . . . . 1. O.? Smithii. 
Leaves obtuse rounded or subauriculate at the base. 
Flowers white, 6—7 in. long. 
Fruit terete, not suleate. . . . . . . 2 O. tubdiflorus. 
Fruit suleate 2. 2... . 1... 8. O? sulcatus. 
Flowers red tipped with green, about 2in.long 4. O. rubriflorus. 
Glabrous. 
Leaves and shoots deep green . . . . . . &. O. speciosus. 
Leaves beneath and shoots pale. . . . . . 6. O. querimbensis. 
Ebracteolate or minutely or obsoletely bracteolate. 
Calyx truncate, minutely toothed. Inflorescence 
pyramidal. ; 
Flowers 5-8 in.long . . . . . . . . 7. O. formosus. 
Flowers about 1 in. long - ee es « 8 O. breviflorus 
Calyx-teeth subulate, rather short. Inflores- 
cence globose . ee we « 9% OD gracilis. 
Stigma capitate, dilated. . 10. Of platystylis. 
Ovary I-celled . . . . . . . es LL O. unilocularis, 
Ovules discoid. Seeds solitary in the 2 cells of the fruit . 12. O. macrophyllus. 
1. O. ? Smithii, Hiern. Branches pubescent, apparently elongated. 
Leaves oval-oblong, subacuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, charta- 
ceous, shortly pubescent on the depressed midrib and beneath on the 
7 pairs of lateral veins, rather paler beneath, 5-6 by 1§-2 in. ; 
petiole about fin. long, pubescent ; stipules rather longer, with a long 
setiform acumen from a short broad base. Flowers subsessile or shortly 
Pedicellate, few together on short bracteolate pubescent racemes 
scarcely exceeding the petioles; bracteoles lanceolate, pubescent. 
Calyx-limb on the young fruit deeply 5-lobed, 4 in. long, pubescent ; 
lobes lanceolate, acute, somewhat contorted dextrorsely (as seen from 
inside), connivent. Young fruit 2-celled, rounded at the base ; seeds 
together. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! ; 
‘oad the absence of the flower, the genus cannot be satisfactorily ascertained ; the 
abit is rather like 7; ricalysia. 
2. oO. tubifiorus, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 376. A hispidulous-puberulous 
vergreen shrub of no great size. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 
More or less acuminate, obtuse rounded or obliquely subauriculate (the 
Upper ones sometimes narrowed) at the base, glabrate above, obsoletely 
Velutinous beneath, thinly coriaceous, 3-7 by 1-3 in., lateral veins 
about 6-8 pairs ; petiole 3-1 in. ; stipules ovate acute erect, 4-t in. 
long. Flowers about 6-2 in. long, sweet-scented, about 3-6 toge- 
ther (sometimes more numerous), on short pedicels in abbreviated 
axillary racemes. Bracteoles lanceolate, very acute. Calyx-limb about 
8 in. long, puberulous, 5-cleft ; teeth ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tube 
paitered with short slender hairs ; lobes 3-1} in. long, white. Ovary 
“celled. Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrate, terete, 1 in. long, 2-celled, rounded 
