126 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Cremaspora. 
42. CREMASPORA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 108. 
Calyx pubescent; tube small, campanulate or turbinate ; limb 
5 (-6)-cleft, teeth lanceolate, acute, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; 
tube short; throat more or less hairy ; lobes 5 (-6), contorted dex- 
trorsely in the bud (as seen from inside). Stamens 5 (-6), inserted 
at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers nar- 
rowly linear, apiculate, glabrous, fixed at the back slightly above the 
base, exserted. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, 
more or less hairy, shortly pubescent; stigma narrowly fusiform, 
undivided ; ovules solitary, suspended by the inner side of the apex. 
Berry rather small, ellipsoidal, 2-celled, usually 2-seeded. Seeds pen- 
dulous, oblong, somewhat compressed ; testa thin, transversely striate ; 
albumen horny, not ruminated ; embryo small, axile ; cotyledons ovate ; 
radicle terete, superior.— Pubescent shrubs with supra-axillary 
branches, opposite shortly petiolate leaves, those below the branches 
in one species smaller rounder and more or less cordate, intrapetiolar 
cuspidate ,or acute stipules, rather small flowers in short axillary 
clusters, and bracteoles similar to the calyx-lobes. 
A small genus containing a species from Madagascar, one from the Cape de Verd 
Islands (which I have not seen), and the following :— 
Pubescent or nearly glabrate . . . 2. ewe OL. Cafricana. 
Hirsute-hispid. 2. . 2. 2... wk C. ¢ Thomsoni. 
1. G. africana, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 412. A pubescent 
shrub, sometimes subscandent ordrooping, with supra-axillary spreading 
subterete branches. Leaves oval or oblong or slightly obovate (or 
those below the base of the branchlets cordiform or subreniform), acu- 
minate, usually obtuse at the base, glabrate above, pubescent at least 
on the principal veins beneath, chartaceous, 14-44 by #-2 in. ; the cordi- 
form or subreniform ones }-14 in. diam.; lateral veins about 3-5 
pairs; margins narrowly revolute; petiole 4-} in., pubescent ; stipules 
lanceolate-acuminate from a broad base, 4-1 in. long, hairy along the 
back outside, glabrous inside. Flowers white, fragrant, about }-# in. 
long, subsessile, 2-6 together. Calyx 3-4 in. long, pubescent outside; 
teeth 5, lanceolate or ovate, acute, erect. Gorolla-lobes 5, about 4-4 in. 
long, shortly pubescent outside or nearly glabrate, obtuse. Style 
exserted, pubescent. Berry 3 in. long, ellipsoidal.— Psychotria triflora, 
Thonn. in Schum. Pl. Guin. 108; Oremaspora heterophylla, F. Didr.i0 
Copenhag. Vidensk. Medd. 1854, p. 187, n. 5; Coffea hirsuius, G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iii. p. 581. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter! a pretty ornamental plant ; blossoms abundant; 
Asiama, Thonning ; Cape Coast; Sierra Leone, G. Don! Succonde Hove! in 
Afzel. and Banks. © , 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Mile Land. Bongo-land and Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Hilsenberg and Bojer! Kirk! 
2. G. ? Thomsoni, Hiern. A scandent shrub, with brown ste™- 
Branches terete, glabrescent or especially at the extremities taw®Y- 
