Canthium. ] LXX. RUBIACEEZ (HIERN). 145 
shortly petiolate, quite glabrous, delicately net-veined, 2 in. long; 
stipules attenuate and compressed at the apex. Peduncle axillary, the 
length of the petiole, twice or thrice bifid ; pedicels numerous clustered ; 
bracts opposite at the division of the peduncle, roundish, acute, sessile. 
Calyx-limb 5-toothed. Corolla tubular-campanulate, whitish; tube 
pubescent inside, +}, in. long; limb 5-cleft ; lobes ovate, acute, reflexed, 
half the length of the tube. Filaments 5, inserted at the mouth of 
the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate-oblong, dark brown. Ovary turbinate- 
subrotund, quite glabrous; style filiform, a little longer than the tube ; 
stigma capitate, ovoid, obsoletely bifid at the apex.—Psychotria multi- 
flora, Thonning in Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 109. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, about Asiama, flowering in May, Thonning. 
The description is taken from Thonning l.¢.; I have seen no specimen. 
33. C. bibracteatum, Baker, Fl. Maurit. p. 146, sub Plectronia. 
glabrous unarmed shrub. Branches ashy, striate, erect-patent, sub- 
terete or the extremities subcompressed. Leaves oval, obtuse, nearly 
Tounded at the apex, somewhat narrowed at base, dark and rather 
glossy above in the dry state, rather paler beneath, glabrous except 
pressions in the axils of the 3-5 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 
coriaceous, 2-4) by 1-21 in. ; petiole 3-1 in. ; stipules ovate, apiculate, 
glabrous, 1} in. Flowers 4 in. long, tetramerous, on short glabrous 
pedicels, several together, umbellately arranged on a very short gla- 
brous common pedurcle bibracteate at the apex; bracteoles ovate- 
‘nceolate, rather exceeding the pedicels. Calyx glabrous; teeth 
obtuse. Corolla-throat densely bearded ; tube without deflexed hairs 
lside ; lobes obtuse. Disk glabrous. Stigma capitate, globose, not 
much exserted. Fruit }- in. long.—Psathura macrophylla and Pyrostria 
comorensis, Boj. mss. ex Baker I. c. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk ! ; 
the no also in the Seychelles, the Comoro Islands, and Madagascar. This and 
Species have much the habit.of the Mascarone genus Pyrostria. 
1 34. , crassum, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. sub Vangueria, A nearly 
glabrous unarmed shrub, 5-15 feet high. Branches glabrous, thick, 
labo anger ones hollow. Bark corky, whitish. Leaves opposite, 
. donee obovate or oval, rounded obtuse or subacute at the apex, 
®dge-shaped at the base, net-veined, subcoriaceous, 6-9 by 3-44 in. ; 
° young one smaller, turning black in the dry state; lateral veins 
a : 1 s : . : 
te 8-10 pairs ; petiole 4—2 in. ; stipules apiculate from a coriaceous 
ad ovate or truncate connate base, 4-2 in. long, subpersistent. 
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Wers 4-5-merons, 4 in. long in bud, on very short pedicels, 
ot: in pedunculate lateral and axillary puberulous dense pani- 
°F 2-1 in. diameter, below the young leaves; peduncle $-1 in. 
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rie Puberulons or glabrate ; bracteoles ovate, small, alternate. Calyx 
bores 3 li ly toothed 
Coto}} & ; tube puberulous ; Jimb broader, glabrate, obsoletely toothed. 
throa: 4 glabrate outside; tube furnished with deflexed hairs inside ; 
2-cell, Pubescent; lobes ovate, obtuse. Anthers glabrous. Ovary 
ad stigma capitate, globose, shortly exserted ; style glabrous. 
i I a. Mittu-land, Schweinfurth! Djur-land, Schweinfurth! 
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