Fadogia. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HTERN). 158 
shrubs or even small trees, with 3—5-whorled leaves, subulate stipules 
from a broad base or lanceolate, and small or moderate-sized flowers 
not all fertile, few or several together arranged in axillary fascicles or 
in short panicles or clusters. 
A genus confined to the African continent, consisting of one or more Cape (Trans- 
vaal and Natal) species, besides the following :— 
Corolla 3-1 in. long. 
A small tree, with precocious flowers. Diskhispid. . 1. F. leucophlea. 
Herbaceous undershrubs. Flowers not or rarely preco- 
cious. Disk glabrous. 
Calyx-segments 5-6, linear, foliaceous . 
Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, not minute... . . 
Calyx-teeth 5-10, subulate, small, not all minute 
Calyx truncate, entire or with minute subulate 
teeth. 
Leaves oval, 1-2hin.long . . . . . « . . 5. F. glaberrima. 
Leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 14-4 in. long. 6. F. stenophylla. 
Corolla 3-1 in. long. 
Calyx truncate, entire. Flowers 1-4 together ; pedicels 
4-Z in. long, raised on a short common peduncle. 
Corolla glabrous outside. 
Corolla-tube straight or nearly so; lobes 6-7. 
Leaves wedge-shaped at the baso . . . . 
Corolla-tube arching ; lobes 5. Leaves rounded or 
emarginate at the base. . . . . . . +. 
Calyx-teeth linear, subulate, twice the length of the 
tube. Flowers fasciculate; pedicels } in.; corolla 
shaggy outside . . . . 1. ee ee ee 9D EF. lactifiora. 
. F., Leyheri. 
. F. agrestis. 
. BF. Cienkowskii. 
wm Oo bo 
. £. fuchsioides, 
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ioe) 
. &. ancylantha, 
1. BF. leucophlea, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. sub Vanguerii. A 
small puberulous tree, 15 feet high. Branches with soft pale at 
ength quite white bark, erect-patent. Leaves ternate, oval, obtuse at 
th ends, very shortly petiolate, coriaceous, asperous above, pale and 
arshly tomentellous beneath, 2-3 by 1-11 in.; lateral veins about 6 
Pairs; stipules caducous. Flowers precocious, (as well as the fruits) 
on leafless branches before the development of the fresh leaves, 
greenish-white, 2-1 in. long, on very short pedicels, several together 
in crowded clusters, tawny-tomentose outside. Calyx 5!, in long, teeth 
eral, obtuse, 5, about equalling the tube, subequal, hairy on both sides. 
orolla-lobes 5, lanceolate, acute, about equalling the tube, subequal. 
° isk hispid. Ovary 5-celled. Stigma scarcely exserted. Fruit ribbed 
T oblique, 1-Lin. diam. ; pyrenes 3-1. 
. foun’ Land. Bongo-land, Schweinfurth! in flower; Mittu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
‘ m F. Zeyheri, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 56. A glabrescent dwarf 
Neershrub. Branches angular, decumbent or ascending. Leaves ob- 
Neeolate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the 
Pex, attenuate at the base into a short petiole, ternate or the upper- 
— ones opposite, net-veined, green on both sides, rather or scarcely 
i beneath, thinly and firmly coriaceous, 24-6 by 4-1 in. ; lateral 
8 about 3-5 pairs, stipules ovate or lanceolate, 3-} in. long. 
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