124 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Tricalysia. 
tube glabrous outside ; lobes 5 rarely 6, obtuse, glabrous inside or 
nearly so. Style glabrous. Ovules 2 together. Fruit 1-seeded, red, 
about } in. diam. 
Wile Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 
18. ©. jasminifiora, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 95. 
A puberulous or sub-velutinous shrub, about 5 ft. high or more, erect 
or climbing. Leaves narrowly elliptical or ovate, more or less 
narrowed at both ends, apiculate, acute or obtuse at the base, mem- 
branous or subchartaceous, shortly pubescent especially beneath, 14-5 
by 2-2 in.; lateral veins about 4-5 pairs, not conspicuous; mar- 
gins flat; petiole jj-4 in.; stipules 7-3 in. long, with scarious 
truncate margin and a finely subulate apiculus 3—} in. long. Flowers 
4-1 in. long, subsessile, 1-3 together, lateral, often appearing in the 
axils of the old leaves before the development of the new ones, 
6-8-merous, white, silky-tomentose outside. Epicalyx double, each 
with 2 opposite decussate erect apiculi. Calyx slit down on two 
opposite sides. Corolla-lobes }-2 in. long, obtuse; tube hirsute. 
Filaments slender, glabrous, short or rather long. Style glabrous. 
Ovules 2-4 together. Berry red.—Rosea jasminiflora, Klotzsch in 
Monatsb. Acad. Wiss. Berl. 1858, p. 502, et in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 
t. 45. 
_ Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, Sena, Peters! Moramballa, Kirk! River Ruo, 
junction with Shire, Bishop Mackenzie's grave, Kirk! Manganja Hills, Meller! 
19. ©. crassifolia, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p.95. A 
shrub with robust branchlets, puberulous at the extremities ; bark 
ashy. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subacuminate, obtuse or apiculate, 
wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, dark green and glabrescent 
above, pale and glabrate beneath except short hairs along the midrib 
and the 4—5 pairs of slender lateral veins and their axils, thinly and 
- firmly coriaceous, 24-4 by 3-1 in.; margins revolute; stipules intra- 
petiolar, with a short broad connate base and an equalling or longer 
subulate apiculus. Flowers crowded or few together in axillary 
abbreviated clusters. Hpicalyx usually double ; teeth all small. Calyx 
truncate, split, silky. Corolla-lobes obtuse, wrinkled at least in the 
dry state, $ in. long, glabrous inside. Style glabrous.—Rosea crass 
folia, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1853, p. 502, et ™ 
Peters Mossamb. Bot. t. 46. 
Mozamb. Distr. By the Sena River, Peters ! 
20. ©. Mirkii, Hiern. A bush, 4 ft. high, with glabrescent 
branches. Leaves oval-oblong, obtusely or subacutely narrow 
towards both ends, apiculate, glabrescent, thinly coriaceous, pale 
beneath, 2}-44 by #-1 in.; lateral veins about 4-6 pairs, not conspicuous; 
impressed above; petiole 7,-} in.; stipules |), in. long, truncate, 
with setaceous apiculus 4-4 in. long. Flowers about } in. long; white, 
subsessile, 3 together, axillary. Calyx silky outside, } in. longs 
splitting up. Epicalyx single or nearly so, puberulous. Corolla-tube 
