140 LXX., RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Canthium. 
subacuminate, } in. long, glabrous. Flowers . . . Fruits numer- 
ous, }} in. long, didymous or dimidiate, glabrous, rather wrinkled. 
Seeds horse-shoe-shaped ; albumen uniform; embryo similar, terete. 
Epigynous disk obsoletely hispid; calyx 5?-lobed. Pedicels puberu- 
lous, y5—} in. long. Panicles repeatedly dichotomous, subglobose, 
2-3 in. long; common peduncles very short, opposite. 
Wile Land. Niamniam-land, Nabambisso, Schweinfurth ! 
18. G. glabriflorum, Hiern. An unarmed tree, 40-50 feet high, 
with palm-like habit ; branches erect-patent, obtusely angular, glabrous 
or somewhat hispid. Leaves oval, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 
with a broad somewhat excavated base, thinly coriaceous, scabrous- 
hispid or glabrate above, turning reddish when dry, more or less hispid 
on the veins beneath, 3-5 by 14-24 in.; lateral veins about 7-8 
pairs; petiole }—2 in., hispid or glabrate; stipules ovate, 3-2 in. long. 
Flowers } in. long (exclusive of the style), on short puberulous or gla- 
brate pedicels, many together, in dense dichotomous globose panicles 
of 1-14 in. diameter ; common peduncle glabrate or puberulous, short 
or ranging up to 4 in., spreading, sometimes unilateral. Calyx-tube 
glabrous ; limb truncate or obscurely toothed, glabrous or ciliolate. 
Corolla glabrous outside, bearded inside; lobes 5, subobtuse. Disk 
glabrous. Stigma elongate-calyptriform, much exserted. 
Upper Guinea. St. Thomas Island, alt. 1000 feet, Munn! Old Calabar, Rev. 
W. C. Thomson ! 
19. ©. Cornelia, Cham. et Schl. in Linnea, iv. p. 15 (1829): 
A twining tawny-pubescent unarmed shrub. Branches spreading: 
Leaves oval, obtusely or subacutely pointed at apex, rounded of 
emarginate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 14-3 by #-1? in.; lateral 
veins about 6-8 pairs ; petiole 4-4 in., rather thick ; stipules depress? 
deltoid, apiculate, $ in. long. Flowers about 2 in. long, on rather short 
pubescent pedicels more or less densely packed in subglobose or hem1- 
spherical panicles of about 1-2 in. diameter, on a stout common 
peduncle of }-3 in. Calyx-tube loosely pubescent, small ; limb wider, 
deeply 5-lobed; teeth lanceolate, pilose-ciliate. Corolla glabrous 
outside ; throat bearded ; lobes 5, subobtuse. Authers apiculate, longer 
than the filaments. Disk glabrous. Stigma far exserted, calyptrl- 
form; style glabrous. “Fruit 1-celled by abortion, subreniform 
(A. Rich.).—DC. Prod. iv. p. 473 (1830). ‘Pavetta Cornelia, Reichenb. 
in Hb. Sieber. Seneg. n. 21! et ex DC. 1c. O. senegalense, A. Rich. 
ex DC. lc. p. 476, et in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. v. p. 188 (1834): 
Plectronia hirsuta, DC. 1.c. p. 476. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber’ and others. 
20. G. hispidum, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 409. A pilose- 
hispid unarmed shrub with usually spreading branches and scandent 
or rambling habit. Leaves cordiform ovate or oval, more OF less 
acuminate, acute or apiculate, cordate rounded or emarginate at the 
base, chartaceous, paler beneath, 4-41 by 4-21 in.; lateral veins about 
