116 LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). [ Feretia. 
at both ends, glabrescent, chartaceous, shortly petiolate, 1-14 by 3—-# in.; 
lateral veins about 3-4 pairs, not conspicuous; stipules apiculate, 
about } in. long, deciduous, imbri¢ated at the base of the lateral 
shoots. Flowers 3-3 in. long before the spreading of the corolla, 
weakly fragrant. Peduncles ranging up to 4 in. in fruit, shorter in 
flower. Calyx 4 in. long. Corolla-limb about ?# im. diameter. 
Anthers } in. Fruit } in. diameter, can be used as a substitute for 
coffee.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 856; Pavetta elliptica, Hochst. in Hb. 
Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 906 (1842); Canthium ellipticwm, Hochst. ex 
Del. in Ferret et Galinier, Voyage Abyss. ili. 136 (1847). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others; Gallabat, Schweinfurth! 
Bongo-land, Schweinfurth / Sennaar, near Akaro, Cienkowsky. 
2. &.2 canthioides, Hiern. A compact bushy shrub, 12 feet 
high, with slender branches, puberulous and leafy towards the ex- 
tremities. Leaves elliptical or oval, somewhat pointed or subacumi- 
nate, obtusely narrowed or wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, 
glabrate or puberulous, 1-2 by 3-1 in.; lateral veins about 4—5 pairs; 
petiole 4-4 in. long, puberulous; stipules ovate, apiculate, nearly 
equalling or rather exceeding the petiole, minutely ciliolate. Flowers 
pentamerous, not or scarcely precocious, about } in. when expanded, 
% in. just before expansion, glabrous outside, solitary, axillary; pe 
duncles slender, puberulous, }-3 in. long; bracts linear or narrowly 
subulate, +,—} in. long, inserted on the upper part of the peduncles. 
Calyx +; in. long; limb short, 5-toothed, persistent, accrescent ; teeth 
reflexed in fruit and then +,—;5 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla puberu- 
lous inside near the base; lobes 5, }-2 in. long. Anthers 5, equalling 
the corolla-lobes ; filaments very short. Disk fleshy, rather conspicu- 
ous. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2-8 together, pendulous, not immers 
nor impressed; style exserted, puberulous, bifid; lobes narrowly 
linear. Fruit 4-4 in. diameter, 2-celled. Seeds pendulous, sometimes 
solitary. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, ) , ! i ‘anthium, 
sp. n., Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. tO) Hrudelot Barter | Senegambia (C 
89. POUCHETIA, A. Rich.; Benth. et. Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 92: 
Calyx campanulate persistent with 5 short teeth at the top of the 
short free portion of the tube. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube short or 
about twice the length of the calyx; throat glabrous ; lobes 5, spread- 
ing, oval, about as long as the tube, dextrorsely contorted in bud (28 
seen from inside). Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla; 
anthers subsessile, half-exserted, linear, glabrous, sagittate at the base- 
Disk fleshy, annular or cushion-shaped, not conspicuous, glabrous: 
Ovary 1-2-celled (1-celled above, 2-celled below); style rather 
slender, half cleft, exserted, exceeding the anthers; branches diverg- 
ing, sulcate; ovules numerous, in 2 or 3 longitudinal rows, not im- 
mersed in the 2 placentas, pendulous. Fruit baccate, ellipsoidal, 
rather small, partly 2-celled, few-seeded. Seeds compressed, some 
