Canthium. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 143 
the throat; tube funnel-shaped ; lobes 4, ovate, obtuse, reflexed. An- 
thers white. Disk hispidulous. Style glabrous, subflexuous, greenish ; 
stigma far exserted, calyptriform, terete. Fruit subdidymous or 
oblique.—Pavetta parviflora, Afzel. Remed. Guin. (vii.) 47 (3 May, 1815). 
?’P? Smeathmanni, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 492. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathman! 
The bruised bark is employed by the natives in the case of swollen legs and knees. 
The following specimens apparently belong to this species. 
Cape Coast, 7h. Vogel! in young fruit (Canthium horizontale, Benth., quoad 
Specimen T. Vogel., in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 408, non Phallaria horizontalis, Schum.) ; 
Niger Expedition, Barter! A small tree, in very young bud. 
27. ©. Barteri, Hiern. A hispid-pubescent unarmed shrub, 
turning reddish in the dry state. Branches subterete, rather spreading. 
Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both ends, acute, firmly chartaceous, 
glabrescent above except the midrib, hispid-pubescent beneath at least 
on the principal veins, 2-4 by 3-14 in., or those at the base of the 
branchlets ovate and smaller; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; petiole 
t-tin,, hairy ; stipules lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, hairy, }-4 
in. long. Flowers 4 in. long, on hispidulous pedicels of {-} in., many 
together in dichotomous cymes of 1-1} in. diameter ; common peduncle 
ranging up to 4 in. Calyx-tube hispidulous ; limb nearly glabrous, 
4-toothed ; teeth ciliolate. Corolla-tube hairy inside; lobes 4. Style 
glabrous, far exserted. Disk hairy. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, at Assasha, Barter! 
28. G. mervosum, Hiern. A shrub, glabrescent except the in- 
florescence, unarmed. Branches black-ashy, terete. Leaves oval, 
acuminate, obtuse, oblique and rounded or somewhat narrowed at the 
€, Coriaceous, turning reddish when dry, glossy, glabrous except 
small hairy depressions in the axils of the primary and secondary 
veins, 3-5 by 14-21 in. ; lateral veins about 8-11 pairs; petiole } in. ; 
stipules subulate from a broad base, } in. long. Flowers } in. long 
exclusive of the style), on rather shorter pubescent pedicels, many 
together in dichotomous panicles of 4-1 in. diameter ; common peduncle 
nearly glabrous, 1-2 in., bibracteate at apex. Calyx-tube pubescent 
with short golden-coloured hairs; limb subglabrous, 4-cleft; teeth 
riolate, ovate, obtuse. Corolla glabrous except the puberulous throat ; 
Obes 4, ovate, subobtuse. Disk hairy. Stigma calyptriform, 8-costate, 
®xserted ; style glabrous, longer than the corolla. 
Upper Guinea. Bagroo River, Mann ! 
29. ©. Mannii, Hiern. An unarmed shrub, quickly glabrescent 
xcept parts of the inflorescence, etc., 15-20 feet high. Branches 
patent, Leaves oval, subacuminate, subapiculate, obtuse, scarcely 
rounded at the base, coriaceous, glabrate except the slightly hairy 
“pressions in the axils of the 8-9 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 
rather paler beneath, 2-4 by 3-13 in. ; petiole 3-4 im. ; stipules deltoid- 
Sonate, $ in. long. Flowers } in. long, nearly glabrous, on short 
80 den-pubescent pedicels, many together, in dense panicles 4-1 in. 
