Tricalysia. | LXX. RUBIACEEZ (HIERN). 123 
cup-shaped, puberulous, ciliolate. Calyx truncate, puberulous, 5- 
toothed. Corolla-lobes 5, puberulous outside, glabrous inside, oval, 
apiculate; throat obsoletely bearded. Anthers minutely apiculate ; 
filaments rather short. Style glabrous. Ovules 2 together, collateral. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon River, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
15. T. microphylla, Hiern. A dense nearly glabrous bush, 
3-4¢ft. high. Branches ashy, smooth, terete and glabrous except the 
somewhat compressed puberulous extremities. Leaves elliptical, 
obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, 
glabrous, shining, rather thinly coriaceous, slightly paler beneath, 
13-2 by 3-1 in.; lateral veins about 4 on each side, inconspicuous ; 
stipules short, apiculate. Flowers hexamerous, 4-% in. long, a few 
together, subsessile, in very short axillary clusters; epicalyx truncate, 
puberulous, with opposite apiculate teeth. Calyx puberulous; tube 
exceeding the ovary, truncate, with 6 narrow teeth. Corolla salver- 
Shaped, glabrous outside; throat thinly pubescent ; lobes ovate, acute. 
thers exserted, narrowly linear, not apiculate. Style glabrous. 
Mozamb. Distr. Island Zanzibar, Hildebrandt ! 
16. T. niamniamensis, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. A puberulous 
shrab with straight branches. Leaves narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, 
subacuminate to the obtuse apex, more or less narrowed towards the 
€, glabrescent except the 3-4 pairs of puberulous principal veins 
and the tufts of hairs in their axils, thinly coriaceous, 14-35 by 
3 in.; petiole qt :-}+ in.; stipules depresso-deltoid, apiculate. 
Flowers 3-2 in. | t-scented, 3-10 together, subsessile, axillary. 
4-3 In. long, sweet-scented, g ; 
Calyx- try in. long, silky outside, shortly cut. Epicalyx simple or 
nearly so. Corolla-tube glabrous outside; lobes 5, obtuse, hirsute 
outside. Ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Style glabrous. Berry 
shortly pubescent, 2 in. diam.—Rosea (sp.), T. Thoms. in Speke, 
Yourn. Ape. p. 636 ; Tricalysia ? (sp.), Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. - 
-p. 89. 
Mile Land, N iamniam-land, Schweinfurth! at Madi, Speke and Grant ! 
Differs from Bunburya capensis, Meissn., by the hirsute not glabrous backs of the 
Corolla-lobes. 
Dr A Specimen from the banks of the Luinha River in Angola, where it was found by 
i ivingstone to be cultivated as coffee, according to a note of Dr. Welwitsch, may 
ore tO this species; it has elliptical leaves 4-4} by 13-1 a and a hexamerous 
18 A fragment of the plant was communicated to Dr. elwitsch in December, 
> 
whose herbarium I have seen it. 
in T. djurensis, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. A puberulous shrub, 
~20 ft. high. Leaves ovate-oval, subobtuse, rounded or slightly 
€xcavated at the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrescent except the 
Puerulous midrib and the small tufts of hairs in the axils of the 
Principal veins, 1-2} by %-1in.; lateral veins about 3-5 pairs, In- 
3 n8Picuous ; petiole very short; stipules deltoid, apiculate. — Flowers 
in. long, subsessile, 3-6 together, axillary. Calyx 3 in. long, 
ortly silky, obscurely 5-toothed. Epicalyx single. Corolla greenish; 
