154 LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). [ Fadogia. 
Flowers pedicellate, in axillary and lateral pedunculate bracteolate his- 
pidulous or glabrate panicles, 1-2 in. long ; common peduncles ranging 
up to 1 in.; bracteoles lanceolate or linear, like the calyx-segments. 
Calyx 3-} in. long; tube globose, hispid or glabrate ; segments 5-6, 
linear, foliaceous, 3-! in. long, spreading. Corolla 3 in. long; tube 
clothed inside with reflexed silky hairs; throat naked ; segments gla- 
brous. Disk glabrous. Ovary 2 (—3-5)-celled; style filiform ; stigma 
truncate at both ends (Sonder). Drupe oblique, 1-1} in. long.— 
Vangueria Zeyheri, Sond. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 15. 
South Central?. (In fruit), ap. 1872, 7. Baines! ; 
Occurs also in stony places in woods at Macalisberg in the Transvaal Republic.— 
The calyx-segments are very like those of the genus Cuviera. 
3. EF. agrestis, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. A tawny-tomentellous 
undershrub, 14-2 feet high. Stems branched only at the base, erect, 
biennial. Leaves 3 together or occasionally the upper ones opposite, 
oval, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the 
base, subsessile, thinly coriaceous, subscabrid above, pale tawny and 
velvety beneath, 14-3? by 3-12 in. or the lower ones smaller ; lateral 
veins about 4-6 pairs ; stipules 3 in. long, hairy. Flowers 4 in. long, 
hairy outside, on short or moderately long pedicels, several together in 
axillary short hairy panicles; common peduncle ranging to § 10.; 
pedicels to 2 in. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, equal, shorter than the tube, 
hairy on both sides. Corolla-lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, 
glabrous inside. Disk glabrous. Ovary 4—5-celled; stigma exserted. 
Fruit costate, glabrate, 4 in. broad, tipped by the persistent calyx, 
3-1-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter ! 
Wile Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth! 
4, F. Cienkowskii, Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. 47, t. 32. A hirsute 
undershrub, 2 feet high. Stems shrubby below, herbaceous above, 
erect, not much branched. Leaves 3-4 together, oval, obtuse or sub- 
cuspidate at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subsessile base, chartaceous, 
scattered with subappressed hispid hairs and at length rugose above, 
paler and hirsute at least on the veins beneath, 14-4 by ?-2 in., equal- 
ling or exceeding the internodes ; lateral veins about 5-7 pairs ; stipules 
much apiculate, }-4 in. long, hirsute or nearly glabrous outside. 
Flowers } in. long, on rather shorter pedicels, erect, 3-1 together, ork 
short common peduncle, axillary. Calyx puberulous or glabrate ; teet 
glabrate, subulate, short, +1, in. long or less, somewhat unequal, oF 
with 1-5 extra minute ones intercalated. Corolla glabrous or puber™ 
lous outside ; tube shortly funnel-shaped, pubescent inside ; lobes 5-°, 
lanceolate, apiculate. Disk glabrous. Ovary 3-4 (-5)-celled. Drupe 
globose ; pyrenes 5 or fewer.—Rubiacea, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. 
p- 189, n. 713. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe (flowers yellow), Barter ! 
Worth Central. Musgo, Sokoto, L. Vogel! 
Wile Land. Fadoga, Sennaar, (corolla whitish), Cienkowski. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Huilla, in pastures, Welwitsch ! 
