Canthium. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 141 
7-12 pairs; petiole ,-4 in. long; stipules small. Flowers } in. 
long, on very short pubescent pedicels, many together, in dense small 
pedunculate panicles; common peduncles ranging up to } in., hispid. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, pilose-pubescent ; limb 5-dentate; teeth small, 
erect, somewhat hairy. Corolla glabrous outside ; tube inside covered 
with deflexed paleaceous sete. Disk hispidulous. Style exserted, 
glabrous ; stigma calyptriform, 5-sulcate. Fruit } in. long (perhaps 
immature), 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don, Afzelius! Niger, Lagos, Barter! Cape 
Coast, Brass ! ; 
Lower Guinea. Loango, Soyaux! 
21. G. setosum, Hiern. A climbing unarmed shrub of 40-50 
feet. Branchlets thickened at the nodes, glabrate, subterete. Leaves 
oblong, narrowly acuminate, with a broad rounded or rather hollowed 
base, thinly coriaceous, pilose-hispid on the midrib margins and 
beneath on the veins, turning reddish when dry, 5-7 by 2-3 in.; 
lateral veins about 10 pairs; petiole }4 in., pilose-hispid ; stipules 
deltoid-acuminate, 4 in. long. Flowers + in. long, on nearly as long 
slender hispid pedicels, numerous, in dense globose subsessile bracteate 
panicles of 14-2 in. diameter. Calyx-tube pilose; limb glabrous or 
nearly so, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube glabrous outside; throat hairy ; 
lobes 5. Disk hairy. Stigma elongate-calyptriform, much exserted. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 2500 feet, Mann! 
22. c. subcordatum, DO. Prod. iv. p. 473. Branches un- 
armed, terete, spreading, hispid-pubescent with short spreading hairs 
towards the extremities, glabrescent below. Leaves oval, obtuse 
or subacute, nearly rounded or subcordate at base, thinly coriaceous, 
glabrate above, hispidulous on the midrib and on the 7-8 pairs of 
lateral veing beneath, 14-34 by 3-2 in.; petiole }-4 in., hispidulous; 
stipules lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, } in. long, hispidulous 
cutside, caducous. Flowers very small ; peduncles bifid, cymose, 
many-flowered ; stigma ovate (DC.). Fruit didymous or subdimidiate, 
g~@ In. long, on hispidulous pedicels of } in., in dichotomous cymes 
of 13-13 in. ; common peduncle 3 in., puberulous or glabrate. Albu- 
men ruminated. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, in moist woods near Albreda, Gambia, Leprieur 
and Perrottet, Heudelot ! 
_ 23. 6, congense, Hiern. Unarmed, glabrous except the 
Mflorescence. Branches subterete, rather pale, patent. Leaves oval, 
honey and obtusely acuminate, rounded or nearly so or somewhat 
ollowed at the base, coriaceous, paler beneath, 2-43 by 13-23 in., 
rerely smaller ; lateral veins about 4—5 pairs ; petiole 4-3 in. ; stipules 
anceolate-subulate from a broad base, 3-3 in. Flowers small, 
"umerous, on short hispidulous pedicels ranging up to } 1n., arranged 
m dense globose dichotomous panicels of $-1 in. diameter ; common 
Peduncle hispidulous or glabrate, ranging up to 4 in. Calyx-tube 
binate-hispid with short golden-coloured hairs; teeth 5, small, 
