Cremaspora. | LXX. RUBIACEX (HIERN). 127 
hirsute. Leaves oval, subacuminate, rounded at the base, chartaceons, 
glabrate above, hirsute at least on the midrib beneath, 14-2) by 
#-1{ in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, clearly marked beneath, rather 
patent ; petiole 2 in. long, hirsute; stipules subulate, }-4 in. long, 
hirsute. Flowers 5-6-merous, white, (in bud) }-4 iin. long, sessile, a 
few (3-1) together, in very abbreviated axillary clusters. Bracteoles 
subulate, small, at the base of the calyx, thinly pubescent. Calyx 
pilose-hirsute especially at the base; limb 5-6-toothed, glabrous 
inside; teeth subulate. Corolla silky outside, glabrous inside except 
the pubescent throat; lobes 5-6, } in. long, lanceolate-oblong, not 
acute, with longitudinal veins; tube apparently short. Anthers 5-6, 
linear, inserted at the throat of the corolla, subsessile, fixed at the back 
near the base. Fruit deep red. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
43. POLYSPHZERIA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
ii. p. 108. 
Calyx-tube small, turbinate or campanulate; limb cup-shaped, 
truncate or shortly 4-dentate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; 
tube short ; throat densely bearded ; lobes 4, contorted dextrorsely (as 
Seen from inside) in estivation, sometimes very narrowly so. Stamens 
4, inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, included ; filaments very 
short; anthers linear, apiculate, fixed at the back near the base, glabrous. 
Disk small, fleshy. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, exserted, shortly 
pubescent ; stigma undivided, fusiform; ovules solitary, suspended 
y the inner side of the apex. Berry rather small, globose, coria- 
Ceous, 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. Seeds rounded; testa striate-sulcate ; 
umen ruminated; embryo small; cotyledons rounded, flat ; radicle 
Superior.—Glabrous pubescent or pilose shrubs with supra-axillary 
ranches, opposite elliptical leaves having divaricate lateral veins, some- 
times the leaves below the branches suborbicular and cordate, apiculate 
Supra-axillary stipules from a broad base, small flowers in axillary 
clusters, and small cup-shaped bracteoles. 
A small genus confined to Nile land, Mozambique and the Comoro Islands. The 
Species are very closely related. 
lyx truncate, glabrous toe ee eee 1. P. multiflora. 
alyx shortly 4-dentate, pubescent or puberulous. 
ves mostly lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, clusters 
of flowers shortly pedunculate . soe ee 
ves mostly oval or ovate. Clusters of flowers sessile. — 
Petiole pubescent. Leaves $-2hin., 2. 1 ee 3. P. parvifolia. . 
Petiole glabrous. Leaves 2h-4in, 2. 2. ee ee P. Schweinfurthii. 
anne ysPhaeria? ligustriflora, Vatke in Linnea xl. 193 (1876), Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 
whi, 1863, nn. 1110 and 1471, belongs to the genus Olinia, Thunb. (Lythracee), 
ich is the true Plectronia, Linn. 
2. P. lanceolata. 
ion, P. multifiora, Hiern. <A glabrous shrub. Leaves oval or 
Sightly obovate or those below the branchlets subrotund, obtuse, 
*ometimes mucronulate, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the 
