152 LXX, RUBIACEX (HIERN). [ Vangueria. 
emarginate (the uppermost ones sometimes narrowed) at the base, 
membranous or at length chartaceous, glabrate or with scattered short 
hispid hairs on the midrib, paler beneath, very shortly petiolate, 1-2 
by 4-1 in. ; lateral veins about 4 pairs, inconspicuous ; stipules apicu- 
late from a broad base, small. Flowers} in. long (when expanded), 
solitary or two together; pedicel shorter than the flower ; peduncle 
axillary, slender, puberulous, 1-3 in. long, bibracteolate at the top. 
Calyx turbinate, truncate, glabrous. Corolia glabrous outside ; throat 
bearded ; lobes 6 or 8, lanceolate, caudate-acuminate. Anthers exserted. 
Ovary 3—4-celled ; stigma 3-4-lobed, capitate, exserted ; lobes imbri- 
cated. Fruit 4 in. long, 3-4-ribbed and -celled. 
Nile Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
12. V. tetraphylla, Schweinf. mss. in herb. A puberulous 
shrub, 20 feet high. Branches opposite, roundly foursided, spinous, 
sub-scandent, patent, dull-reddish; spines patent, subulate tapering 
from a robust base, 4-1 in., decussate or opposite to a short spine-like 
branchlet, supra-axillary. Leaves crowded on the abbreviated lateral 
shoots, opposite, pseudo-verticillate in fours, oval, rounded or obtuse at 
apex, wedge-shaped or obtuse at the base, chartaceous, ciliolate, of the 
same yellowish green on both sides when dry, 1-14 by 3-3 in. ; lateral 
veins about 4 pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole 1} in. hispidulous ; stipules 
apiculate from an ovate base, small. Flowers 4—5-merous, y5—¢ i. 
long on short hispidulous pedicels, a few together, in very abbreviated 
axillary clusters, precocious. Calyx-teeth small, subulate, spreading, 
glabrous. Corolla hispidulous outside ; throat bearded ; lobes lanceolate, 
acute. Anthers subsessile, exserted. Ovary 5-4-celled; stigma ex- 
serted, sulcate. 
Nile Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth! 
Habit of V. spinosa, Roxb., but differs by the hairy surface of the corolla. 
51. FADOGIA, Schweinf. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 111 
(excl. syn.). 
Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate ; limb truncate or 5-10-den- 
tate or 5-lobed, small or not large, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped 
or subcylindrical, exceeding the calyx; tube short or rather long, 
straight or arching, more or less hairy inside; throat not densely 
bearded ; lobes 5-7, reflexed, ovate or lanceolate, valvate in sstivation, 
slightly induplicate near the tip, more or less apiculate at the back. 
Stamens 5-7, inserted at the mouth of the corolla; anthers oblong oF 
lanceolate, glabrous, sessile or subsessile. Disk cushion-like, glabrous 
or hispid. Ovary (2-) 3-5-celled ; style erect, glabrous, equalling the 
corolla or moderately exserted; stigma coroniform or hat-shaped, 
lobuled at the tip, lower margin free; ovules solitary, anatropous, 
pendulous from below the apex. Drupe composed of 3-5 (or by abor- 
tion 1) bony or crustaceous pyrenes. Seeds pendulous ; testa mem- 
branous; albumen fleshy, uniform; embryo straight or somewhat 
curved, radicle short superior.—Erect unarmed herbaceous under- 
