136 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Canthium. 
as long as the corolla when straightened, glabrous. Stigma far ex- 
serted, mitriform, terete, bifid at tip. Fruit + in. long, obscurely 
marked with transverse wrinkles, subdidymous or one half abortive ; 
seeds and embryo curved round the placentas through half a circle; 
albumen uniform.—Phallaria Schimperi, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. i. u. 328 (1840) ; Plectronia Schimperi, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. iii. n. 19C0 (1844) ; Canthium lucidum, Br. in Salt, Abyss. 
p- Ixii, name only, non Schldt., nec Hook. et Arn.; Plectronia 
Schimperiana, Vatke in Linnea, xl. p. 195, n. 12 (1876), ex parte. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! i. 328, iii. 1900; (1853) 174; (1854) 2240; 
(1862) 232; 5500 —7000 feet alt.; Amba Sea; Tigre-name ‘Zadak.’ Salt! 
7. ©. Vatkeanum, Filern. A long puberulous unarmed shrub, 
with erect-patent terete branches, somewhat compressed at the extre- 
mities, with abbreviated axillary shoots giving the branches a fascicu- 
lated appearance. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate, more or less 
wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, scattered with very short hairs 
above, paler and softly puberulous beneath, 2-34 by 2-12 in. ; lateral 
veins about 7-8 pairs, not conspicuous; stipules connate, sheathing, 
apiculate, intra-petiolar, about 4-1 in. long; petiole closely puberu- 
lous, }-} in. long. Fruiting pedicels fasciculate, about 4 in. long, 
several together at the nodes. Fruit about 3 in. long, subdidymous. 
Calyx-limb after the fall of the corolla truncate, very short, glabrous. 
Disk glabrous. Ovary ovules and embryo of the genus.—P. Schim- 
periana, Vatke in Linnea, xl. p. 195, n. 12 (1876), ew parte. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, at the river Repp, 7000-8000 feet alt., Schimper ! 
8. G. anomocarpum, DO. Prodr. iv. p. 475. A glabrous glossy 
unarmed shrub, about 10 feet high, with long rambling spread- 
ing branches. Leaves oval, obtusely acuminate or subacute, more OF 
less wedge-shaped at the base except the suborbicular leaves at the 
base of the branchlets, thinly coriaceous, of nearly the same colour on 
the two surfaces, 14-4 by 3-2 in. ; lateral veins about 4-5 pairs, incoD- 
spicuous; petiole very short; stipules subulate from a broad base, 
; In. long. Flowers 4? in. long, on slender glabrous pedicels 4-4 1 
(lengthening in fruit to 8-1} in.), umbellately arranged on very sho 
solitary common peduncles. Calyx very small, glabrous except the 
4—5 small puberulous spreading teeth. Corolla glabrous outside, wit 
deflexed closely appressed hairs below the apex; lobes ovate, obtuse 5 
throat scarcely bearded. Disk elevated, annular, glabrous. Fruit 
4-3 In. long, didymous or subdimidiate, 2-, or by abortion 1-celled ; 
pericarp fleshy. Seeds and embryo curved through half a circle 1? e 
vertical plane (regarding the placenta as a horizontal axis) ; albume” 
uniform. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathman ex DC. l.c. Afzelius ! Senegambias 
Albreda, Perottet and Leprieur, Heudelot! Ni Th. Vi IN arter / Lagos 
Island, Barter ! ! ger, Th. Vogel! Nupe, B 
9. G. acutifiorum, Hiern. A climbing shrub of 15-20 feet, of s 
tree, unarmed, quite glabrous except the flowers, shining. Branches 
