Canthium. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 135 
hairy outside. Flowers hermaphrodite, about 4!, in. long, 5-7 together, 
on rather slender hispid pedicels of 3-1 in., umbellately arranged on a 
hispid common peduncle ranging up to } in. or fasciculate. Calyx 
hispid; limb spreading, 5-toothed; teeth subulate, sometimes pro- 
longed. Corolla reddish in the dry state, 5—4-lobed ; lobes obtuse, 
setose-hispid above near the apex; throat bearded, rather dilated. 
Stamens 5-4, Disk glabrous. Ovary 2-celled ; style about equalling 
the ovary, glabrous, robust. Stigma capitate; ovules roundish, 
pendulous. 
Mozamb. Distr. Near Tette, Kirk! 
4G. nitens, Hiern. A glabrous shining unarmed shrub. 
Branches subterete erect-patent, ashy, thickened at the nodes. Leaves 
oval, much acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, glossy, coriaceous, 
1}-4 by 4-12 in., rarely smaller; lateral veins about 4-6 pairs, incon- 
Spicuous ; petiole 2-3 in. ; stipules from a broad base apiculate, about 
yy} in. long. Flowers very numerous, on pedicels of 1-4 in., umbel- 
lately arranged on a very abbreviated common peduncle. Calyx-tube 
turbinate, glabrous ; limb small, obscurely 5 ?-toothed ; teeth ciliolate. 
Disk glabrous. Fruit obovoid-oblong, somewhat compressedly pyri- 
perm, 3-2 in. long, 1-2-celled, on pedicels of the same length or rather 
longer. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, near River Nun (flowers greenish), Barter / 
5. G. meglectum, Hiern. Glabrous large tree-like unarmed 
shrub, rather lucid, with elongated erect-patent rather ashy terete 
ranches, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves 
elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped or partly obtuse at the base, char- 
taceous, of nearly the same colour on the two surfaces, 3-4 by 1-1} in.; 
lateral veins about 6-7 pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole ¢-} in. ; stipules 
yonnate, sheathing, subulate-apiculate, intra-petiolar, hairy inside, 
~¢ in, long. Fruiting pedicels } in. long, rather slender, fasciculate, 
Several together in the axils of fallen leaves. Fruit i in. long, obovoid, 
obliquely narrowed at the base. Calyx-limb short, after the fall of the 
Corolla with minute subulate teeth. Ovary and ovules of the genus. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, 7000—8000 feet alt., Schimper! 
6. CG. Schimperianum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 850. A nearly 
glabrous unarmed arborescent shrub ; branchlets somewhat compressed 
at the extremities, not quite patent. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, glabrous, rather pale green on both 
Sides especially below, glossy above, thinly coriaceous, 1-23 by +1} in. ; 
“Ateral veins about 3-5 pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole ps4 In., glabrous ; 
Stipules ovate or lanceolate-subulate, subobtuse, glabrous ¢-} in. long. 
Owers 3 in. long, yellow, on slender puberulous or nearly glabrous 
Pedicels of 5-8 in., several together, umbellately placed on a very short 
“ommon peduncle. Calyx-limb campanulate, glabrous ; limb subtrun- 
ee. OF obscurely toothed. Corolla glabrous outside; tube hatry 
side ; lobes 5, ovate, subobtuse. Disk glabrous. Style curved, about 
