Canthium. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 137 
subterete or obtusely 4-sided, patent; the branchlets somewhat com- 
pressed. Leaves oval, mostly acuminate, nearly rounded or some- 
what narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, 2-4 by 1-2 in., sometimes 
those at the base of the branchlets smaller; lateral veins about 4-5 
pairs, prominent beneath ; petiole spreading, 4-4 in. long; stipules cus- 
pidate-subulate from a broad subtruncate base, } in. long. Flowers 
$ in. long, on pedicels of 4-} in. long, many together, umbellately 
arranged on a short common peduncle. Calyx-tube widely campanu- 
late, glabrous; limb very small, 5-toothed, glabrous. Corolla-tube 
glabrous outside, hairy with deflexed hairs inside; throat bearded ; 
lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent inside. Filaments 
reflexed, exserted, anthers lanceolate. Disk glabrous. Stigma elon- 
gate-caly ptriform. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 500 feet, Mann! Old Calabar, Hev. 
W. C. Thomson! 
10. C. caudatifiorum, Hiern. Glabrous, shining, unarmed. 
Branches subterete, patent ; branchlets subcompressed. Leaves ellip- 
tical, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, of the 
same rather yellowish-green colour on both sides when dry, 14-4 by 
$-14 in.; lateral veins about 3-5 pairs, not conspicuous; petiole ;';—2 in. ; 
stipules apiculate-subulate from a broad subtruncate base, short. 
Flowers about z in. long when expanded, pentamerous, on rather slender 
glabrescent pedicels of about } in., about 6 together, umbellately ar- 
ranged on a very short puberulous or glabrescent common peduncle ; 
bracteoles minute. Calyx glabrous or very nearly so ; tube shortly 
campanulate ; teeth subulate, small, spreading. Corolla-tube glabrous 
outside, with detlexed hairs inside; throat glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, 
caudate-acuminate, glabrous, spreading or reflexed. Anthers narrowly 
lanceolate, exserted, reflexed; filaments recurved. Disk glabrous. 
tigma exserted, elongate-calyptriform. Fruit small, oval, clustered, 
shortly stalked, red, sweet. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
Ag, The description of the fruit is taken from a manuscript note in the herbarium of 
zelius, 
ll. G. horizontale, Schum. Guin. Pl. p- 112 sub Phallaria, non 
Benth. Unarmed. Stem woody, terete, branched ; braneblets hori- 
zontal, terete, striate, glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptical, subacuminate, 
shortly petiolate, glabrous, rather glossy ; stipules interpetiolar, Jan- 
Ceolate, acute. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 4 in. long ; pedicels 
umbellately arranged from the top, 4 in. long, 1-flowered. Calyx 
minute, 5-toothed, glabrous; lobes erect, rather acute. Corolla 
tubular, 5-cleft; tube thred times the length of the calyx; lobes 
‘nceolate, acute, rather patent, reflexed ; throat shaggy inside with 
rf "ng of reflexed whitish hairs below the middle. Filaments filiform, 
Tz in. long, inserted on the throat under the incisions of the corolla ; 
snthers oval. Ovary globose, rather depressed; style filiform, equal- 
ng the corolla ; stigma conical-calyptriform, truncate. 
reer Guinea. Guinea (without precise locality). 
ave seen no specimen that I can refer to this description. 
