Vangueria, | LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). : 147 
glabrous, equalling the corolla or exserted ; stigma capitate, sometimes 
sulcate or subcalyptriform, often shortly 5-3-lobed at the tip, glabrous; 
ovules solitary, anatropous, pendulous from above the middle of the 
ovary. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 5-3 or putamen 5-3-celled. Seeds 
oblong ; umbilicus ventral ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
straight, radicle superior, terete.—Shrubs or trees, sometimes spinous 
or subscandent, with opposite or alternate branches, opposite (rarely 
psendo-verticillate in fours) oval leaves, apiculate stipules usually 
connate at the base, and small white or greenish flowers arranged in 
axillary or lateral clusters or short panicles. 
A genus of moderate size, confined to the warmer parts of Asia and Africa. 
Unarmed or with spines of qs-4 in.; erect. Leaves opposite. Flowers 5-$-merous. 
Corolla-lobes subapiculate or mucronulate or subacute, not caudate. 
Calyx-lobes ovate or oval. 
Fruits terete or roundedly 4~5-sided. 
Tawny-tomentose. Leaves usually rounded or obtuse 
at the base ee 
Glabrous. Leaves usually narrowed at both ends . 
Fruits ribbed and sulcate . rn 
alyx truncate or with small subulate teeth. 
Leaves about 1-1} in. long. Branches intricate . . . 4. V. senegalensis. 
Leaves usually exceeding 1} in, Branches not intricate. 
_ Leaves paler beneath (in the dry state). 
. V.infausta 
. VF. edulis, 
. V. abyssinica, 
(I ot) 
Calyx 5-toothed, more or Jess hairy, . . . . . 5 V. canthioides. 
Calyx truncate, glabrous. 
Flowers 2-3 together. 6. 6. 6 1 ww 6. V. ewonymoides. 
Flowers 5-7 together . oe 7. Vi umbellulata, 
Leaves light green on both sides (in the dry state). 
Pedicels j,-3 in. long, Ovary d-celled. . . 8. V. concolor, 
Pedicels 4-? in. long. Ovary 3-4-celled 9. V. membranacea. 
Corolla-lobes caudate-acuminate. 
Corolla tomentose outside; lobes 5. Ovary 5-celled. Un- 
armed ww ww ee we ee ww we 10, VY, velutina. 
Corolla glabrous outside; lobes 6 or 8. Ovary 3~4-celled. 
pinous . 11. V. pauciflora. 
Pines }—-1in, Subscandent. Leaves crowded, pseudo-verticillate 
Iu fours, Flowers 4-5-merous . . . . + s+ « + «12 V. tetraphylla. 
p re V. infausta, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 258 ¢. not., p. 259 fig., 
hic}, ?P: 499 (1824). A tawny-tomentose unarmed shrub, 4-10 feet 
8, or a small tree, inodorous, with several erect stems. Branches 
6 rete or the extremities subcompressed; bark whitish. Leaves 
ee Site, ovate oval or suborbicular, horizontal, softly and shortly 
nae! usually rounded or obtuse at the base and somewhat 
Net-y Wed at apex, greenish above, rather paler beneath, inconspicuously 
about 7. chartaceous, deciduous, 14-9 by 1-5 in.; lateral veins 
green —10 pairs ; stipules caudate-acuminate from a broad ovate base, 
ah nish, 3} in. long, covering a ring of setose hairs, deciduous; petiole 
ant tomentose. Flowers greenish, pentamerous, + in. long, shortly 
_ te ; panicles 2-3-chotomons, often with a flower in the forks, 
falle ve less hairy, 1-2 in, diameter, mostly lateral in axils of fading or 
- eaves, below the young leaves; common peduncle short, brac- 
» Sracteoles short. Calyx-lobes ovate or oval, spreading, persis- 
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