130 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). {| Awlacocalyz. 
long. Calyx # in. long; hairs pale golden. Bracteoles ovate or lan- 
ceolate, acute, imbricated, shorter than the calyx. 
Upper Guinea. Mount John River, Kongui, lat. 1° N., Mann! 
46. LAMPROTHAMNUS, Hiern. 
Calyx-tube cup-shaped, bracteolate at the base ; bracteoles calycu- 
late ; limb shortly cleft ; lobes 4-5, rounded, imbricated in bud. Co- 
rolla funnel-shaped, deeply 6—7-fid; tube exserted, cylindrical below, 
fuunel-shaped above ; throat pubescent ; lobes spreading, oval, contorted 
dextrorsely (as seen from within). Stamens 6-7, exserted, inserted at 
the mouth of the corolla; filaments short, glabrous ; anthers narrowly 
linear, apiculate, fixed at the back a little above the base, versatile, gla- 
brous or slightly puberulous at the back. Disk annular, fleshy, 
glabrous. Ovary 2~1-celled; style glabrous below; stigma thicker, 
exserted, elongate-clavate, pubescent, bifid or bidentate, lobes pointed ; 
ovules solitary, pendulous from a thickened funicle. Fruit... .— 
Shrubby. Leaves opposite, subsessile, cordate, lucid, thinly coriaceous, 
with interpetiolar ovate apiculate stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
white, fragrant, rather large, in dense subterminal corymbs. 
A new monotypic genus. 
1. L. zanguebaricus, Hiern. Glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches robust, obtusely quadrangular, smooth, pallid, leafy above. 
Leaves oval, obtuse, veiny, 2-4 by 1-2 in.; stipules }-4 in. long, ex- 
ceeding the petiole. Flowers before expansion 2~3 in. long, and as 
much in diameter when expanded. Corymbs 14-2 in. diam. ; common 
peduncle }-} in. long; bracts connate, ovate, not large. Calyx % i 
long, glabrous outside, ciliolate, shortly hairy inside. Corolla-tube 
} in. long; lobes 2 in. long. Anthers2in. long. Style} in.—Hook. 
Ic. Pl. 1220. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar coast, at Dar Salam, Kirk/ 
47. RHABDOSTIGMA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
PL. ii. p. 109. 
Calyx small; tube campanulate; limb 5-dentate. Corolla subro- 
tate; tube short, funnel-shaped; throat bearded; limb spreading, 
5-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate, dextrorsely contorted in sestivation 
(as seen from the inside). Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the 
corolla, glabrous, exserted; filaments very short, subulate; anthers 
linear, acute. Diskannular. Ovary 2-celled; dissepiment thin ; style 
columnar, glabrous ; stigma narrowly club-shaped, 10-sulcate, with 1 
narrow membranous wings ; ovules solitary, pendulous, compress¢ ; 
funicle short, not thickened. Fruit unknown.—A small glabrous tree 
with 4-sided branches, opposite leaves, ovate apiculate interpetio 
stipules, and rather small bracteolate pedicellate flowers in ‘axillary 
lax panicles. 
A monotypie genus. ed 
Octotropis, Bedd. an Indian monotypic genus differs from this only by 4 1-cell 
ovary, 5-4-merous flowers, and 8-sulcate and 8-alate stigma. 
