156 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Fadogia. 
ovate, apiculate, 33; in. long. Disk glabrous. Ovary 5-celled; stigma 
exserted, rather longer than thick, 10-angled, rounded and 5-lobed at 
the tip. 
- Wile Land. Djur-land, Schweiafurth! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
9. EB. lactiflora, Welw. ex Hook. f. mss. in Herb. Kew. Villous- 
tomentose throughout and pale when dry. Stems several, strict, 
herbaceous from a woody root-stock, 1-2 feet high. Leaves very 
uniformly 3-5-nately whorled, subsessile, elliptic-ovate, pointed or 
subacuminate, 1-13 by 4-1 in.; stipules subulate from a broad base, 
i-1in. long. Flowers fasciculate, 3-1 in. long, white; pedicels 4-4 in. 
Calyx-teeth linear-subulate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 
broadly cylindrical, white, villous, 4-3 in. long; lobes with slender 
quasi-dorsal horns nearly as long as themselves, glabrous within except 
a silky band half way up. Fruit didymous, 3-} in. diam., glabrous, 
crowned with the villous calyx-lobes, edible. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, on shrubby hills near Lopollo, Welwiisch ! 
52. CUVIERA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 112—(Pachy- 
stigma, Hochst.; Lagynias, E. Mey). 
Calyx-tube small, turbinate; limb 5-partite; segments linear or 
lanceolate, foliaceous, accrescent, elongated, spreading. Corolla sub- 
rotate, fleshy ; tube short, furnished inside with deflexed hairs ; throat 
glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, acute or caudate-acuminate, induplicate- 
valvate in estivation, about equalling the calyx-lobes, spreading. Sta- 
mens 5, glabrous, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, reflexed ; 
filaments short, flattened. Anthers exserted, lanceolate, fixed by the 
base. Disk flat or depressed, glabrous. Ovary 5- or 3-celled; style 
glabrous or pilose-hirsute, short or of moderate length, rather robust ; 
stigma subglobose, mitriform, sulcate; ovules solitary, pendulous. 
Fruit drupaceous, egg-shaped, truncate at the apex, angular or oblique ; 
pyrenes 5 or fewer, 1-seeded.—Glabrous unarmed (in the species here 
described) shrubs or small trees, with opposite leaves and branches, 
broad apiculate stipules, flowers of moderate size not all fertile 
arranged in divaricately branched panicles, and foliaceous bracteoles 
as large as the calyx-lobes. 
A genus of the following, as well as perhaps a few Cape species. 
Ovary 5-celled. 
Style glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, subequal at the base 1. C. acutiflora. 
Leaves chartaceous, oblique at the base . 2 . 2. C. subuliflora. 
Style piloee-hirsute . . . . . ww. we 8 CL longiflora. 
Ovary 38-celled . 2. 2 1. eee ee, 4, C. trilocularis. 
1. GC. acutifiora, DC. in Ann. Mus. Par. ix. p. 222, t. 15 (1807). 
A glabrous shrub, 15-20 feet high. Branches terete, divaricate, 
supra-axillary. Leaves oval-oblong, acuminate, subequal and rounde 
or somewhat narrowed at the base, coriaceous, glossy, rather oF 
scarcely paler beneath, 4-10 by 13-4 in. ; some 4-6in. wide (Benth.) ; 
