Vangueria. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 149 
subterete, subcompressed at the extremities. Leaves elliptical, nar- 
rowed at both ends, velvety especially when young, chartaceous, 2—5 
by 1-2 in. ; lateral veins about 10 pairs; petiole j,—1 in.; stipules 
candate-acuminate, from a broad connate base, sheathing, about 3 in. 
long, deciduous. Flowers 1-1 in. long, pentamerous, appearing below 
the young leaves, shortly pedicellate, in 2-3-chotomously divaricately 
branched panicles of about 1 in. diameter ; common peduncle 4-4 in. 
long, bibracteolate. Calyx-teeth fleshy, obtuse, spreading, velvety on 
both sides, short. Corolla funnel-shaped, half cleft, yellowish green, 
pubescent outside; throat bearded; lobes ovate, cuspidate, reflexed. 
Anthers exserted. Style rather fiexuous, glabrous, equalling the 
corolla ; stigma mitriform, whitish. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit subglobose, 
4-5-sulcate, smooth, 3-1 in. diameter, 4-5-seeded.—V. Barnimiana, 
Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. p. 30, t. xi. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Taccazé Valley, near Tchélatchékanné, Quartin Dillon ; 
near Ferrakoba, Schimper ! 688 (V. edulis? Unio itin.), in fruit. Sennaar, Gebel— 
Fezoghlu and Abu-- Sugra on the left bank of the river Bahr-el-azrak, Hartmann. 
T have seen types of neither Richard nor Schweinfurth’s species; the description 
of the flowers is taken from Schweinfurth’s description and figure. 
4. V. senegalensis, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 111. A 
nearly glabrous intricately branched shrub. Branchlets terete, some- 
times furnished with short spines of } in., scattered at the apex with 
‘parse strigose pubescence or glabrate. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, rather paler beneath, shortly 
petiolate, about 1-14 in. long, puberulous beneath in the axils of the 
Conspicuous Jateral veins or obsoletely so; stipules pubescent within, 
©onnate at the base, apiculate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bearing 
one or few flowers, patent, about } in. long, twice the length of the 
petiole. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate ; pedicels with a bracteole 
in the middle or beneath the calyx. Calyx-limb very short, acutely 
"dentate. Corolla-lobes acute, rather crass. Disk depressed. Anthers 
°, exserted, subsessile, cordate, puberulous. Ovary 3-4-celled; style 
*xserted ; stigma capitate, rngulose-sulcate, obsoletely (3—) 4-mamillate. 
—Hhytigynia (Phallaria) senegalensis, Blame, Mus. Bot. i. p. 179. 
Upper Guinea. S . ts i Brit., but without 
; . enegal, Leprieur! (seen in Hb, Mus, Brit., but witho 
Blume’s authentication.) ~ m 
°. ‘V. canthioides, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 408. An 
‘armed shrub of 12 feet, or a small tree. Branches terete, slender, 
8 t rescent ; branchlets alternate, pubescent. Leaves oval or ovate, 
ch usely acuminate, rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, 
d €ous, with short scattered pubescence, paler beneath (when 
mee » 1-4 by 4-13 in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs; petiole »\5-} " 3 
in Pules subulate from a short sheathing connate pubescent base, }~% 
wh; ong. Flowers (when expanded) } in. long, pentamerous, greenish 
pa ite; pedicels slender, short, rather lengthening in fruit, pubescent 
Slabrate, 3_] together, on a short common bractecolate axillary 
uncle, Calyx pubescent or nearly glabrous; teeth short, ciliolate, 
