146 LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). [ Canthium. 
35. C. vanguerioides, Hiern. An unarmed shrub, 8 feet high. 
Branches terete, puberulous or at length glabrate, ashy; the young 
shoots ferruginous-pubescent, erect-patent. ‘Leaves oval, acuminate, 
apiculate, rounded at the base or nearly so, chartaceous, strigose- 
pubescent and dark above, more densely so and pale beneath, deciduous, 
21-61 by 1-3 in. ; lateral veins about 6-12 pairs; petiole 4-2 in., pubes- 
cent; stipules apiculate-subulate from a broad ° connate sheathing 
subtruncate base, 1-3 in. long. Flowers 3 in. long before expansion 
(exclusive of the tails of the corolla), } in. long when expanded, green . 
and yellow, on pedicels ranging up to } in., numerous, in cymose 
pubescent axillary and lateral bracteolate panicles of 14-3 in. diameter; 
common peduncle 3-} in., with 2 connate ovate bracteoles.at the apex. 
-Calyx turbinate ; limb deeply cleft, hairy on both sides near the base ; 
lobes 5, oval, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, tomentose outside, 3-4 in. 
long, glabrescent inside. Corolla pale-tomentose outside, deeply 4-6 
cleft; tube with reflexed hairs inside; throat not bearded; lobes 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, glabrous inside, spreading and recurved. 
Anthers exserted, glabrous. Disk glabrous. Style glabrous; stigma 
shortly exserted, calyptriform. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Barter! Niger, Barter! Baikie! Abbeokuta, 
Irving! 
36. ©. lanciflorum, Hiern. Unarmed, closely branched. Branches 
terete, reddish ; bark rather mealy. Leaves oval, scarcely acuminate, 
ly 
rounded or emarginate at the base, coriaceous, dark green and sparing 
hispid above, tawny-tomentose beneath, 4-5 by 2-24 in. ; petiole + 
in. long. Flowers } in. long before expansion, scarcely } in. high when 
expanded, pentamerous, tomentose outside, many together, in very 
dense shortly pedunculate lateral panicles. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, glabrous inside, ;!; in. long. Corolla deeply lobed, subrotate; 
tube short, inside with dense deflexed ferruginous hairs ; lobes narrowly 
lanceolate, long, glabrous inside. Anthers somewhat hairy, exserted, 
equalling the glabrous filaments. Disk glabrous. Ovary 2-celled. 
Style exserted, glabrous ; stigma conical-calyptriform. 
South Central. Near Victoria Falls, Kirk! (said to be one of the best fruits 
of the country). 
50. VANGUERIA, Commers.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. p. 111. 
Calyx-tube short, globose campanulate or turbinate ; limb erect o 
spreading, truncate or 5- rarely 4-lobed, lobes short, deciduous oF 
rarely persistent. Corolla-tube short, hairy or glabrous outside, 
usually furnished inside with a ring of deflexed pilose hairs; throat 
bearded ; lobes spreading or reflexed, usually acute or acuminate, V9" 
vate in wstivation. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted on the throat oF 
mouth of the corolla, more or less exserted ; filaments short or equalling 
the oval ovate or lanceolate anthers, fixed to the back of the anthers 
near their base. Disk fleshy or depressed. Ovary 5-3-celled ; style 
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