Tricalysia. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 125 
glabrous outside, rather exceeding the calyx; lobes 6, subacute. Ovules 
5-6 together. Style glabrous. 
Mozamb. Distr. River Shire at Tingane, Kirk / 
; The following species, the type of the genus, is not known to me; the characters 
given do not enable me to place it in the clavis. 
21. T. angolensis, A. Rich. ex DC. Prodr. iv. p. 445 (1830), et 
in Mi’m. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 225 (1834). A shrub. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed at the base. Stipules broad, acu- 
minate. Flowers crowded, pubescent. Calyx-limb 5—6-dentate, rather 
broad. Corolla-throat naked; limb 5—6-partite; lobes narrow. Stamens 
exserted; filaments short. Stigmas 2, linear, rather short, somewhat 
recurved. Ovary 2-celled ; cells 2-ovuied ; ovules collateral. 
Lower Guinea. Angola. 
41. GUETTARDA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 99. 
Calyx-tube campanulate or globose ; limb cup-shaped, truncate or 
toothed, deciduous. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical, much 
exceeding the calyx, rather slender; throat naked or thinly bearded ; 
limb spreading ; lobes 4-9, imbricate. Stamens 4-9, inserted on the 
tube of the corolla, sessile or subsessile; anthers linear, fixed at the 
back rather above the base, included or half exserted. Ovary 
4-9-celled ; cells distant, l-ovuled; funiculus thickened ; style filiform ; 
stigma subcapitate, slightly lobed, included or shortly exserted. Fruit 
globose, drupaceous; flesh scanty ; putamen woody, 4—9-celled; cells 
narrow. Seeds straight or curved; testa membranous; albumen 
wanting or scanty ; radicle elongated.—Shrubs or trees with opposite 
faves, intrapetiolar deciduous stipules, and hermaphrodite or poly- 
8amo-dicecious flowers, sessile, secund, on the branches of opposite 
axillary cymes. 
A genus of about 45 species, chiefly inhabiting tropical America. 
1. G. speciosa, Linn. ! Sp. Pl. edit. i. p. 991. A robust shrub 
or small tree, somewhat gummy; young parts velvety. Leaves oval 
rotund or obovate, obtuse at both ends, often snbcordate at the base, 
Shartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrate above, 4-10 by 24-6 in. ; lateral 
veins about 7-10 pairs; petiole }-1} in.; stipules broadly ovate, $4 
i. long. Flowers 1-14 in. long, fragrant. Calyx-limb truncate. 
Corolla white; limb 3-] in, diam., half cleft; lobes rounded ; tube 
silky outside ; throat thinly hairy. Anthers 3 in. long. Fruit #-1 in. 
Deer 5 mesocarp fibrous.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1893 (1831); DC. 
ag lv. p. 455; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. p. 419.—Cadamba jasminiflora, 
nn. Voy. Ind. iii. p. 253, t. 128 (1782). , 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk! East Coast of Africa, Forbes / 
th Found on maritime coasts in Madagascar, Johanna, the Seychelles, and throughout 
© East Indies to the Pacific Islands and Australia. : . ; 
the £, 1s plant is quite exceptional amongst tropical African Rubiaces inasmuch as in 
ruit the endocarp is very hard woody and more or less lobed, the mesocarp hard 
rous, and in the seed the embryo is entirely destitute of albumen. 
