158 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Cuviera. 
pedicels, several together, in the terminal or subterminal axils; 
panicles 14-2 in. diameter ; common peduncle about 4 in. ; bracteoles 
lanceolate, 3-3 in. long. Calyx-segments greenish white, } in. long or 
rather more, linear-elliptical, acute, narrowed toward the base. Corolla 
shorter than the calyx; lobes lanceolate, caudate-acute. Style gla- 
brous, stigma 10-sulcate. Ovary 3-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson ! 
538. ANCYLANTHOS, Desf.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p- 112 (Ancylanthus). 
Calyx-tube campanulate or subglobose, limb 5-partite, segments 
ovate lanceolate or subulate, persistent. Corolla tubular, somewhat 
arching inwards ; tube furnished inside near the base with a ring of 
hairs; limb rather unequally 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, erect- 
patent, apiculate, valvate in the bud, induplicately so towards the 
apex. Stamens 5, small, glabrous, subsessile, inserted at the throat of 
the corolla, included ; anthers oval-oblong, obtuse. Disk hemispherical 
or nearly flat, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 5-celled; style tapering, 
equalling the corolla or shortly exserted, glabrous; stigma shortly 
oblong, 10-sulcate, subcalyptriform, minutely 5-lobed at the tp; 
ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit fleshy, globose, reddish; pyrenes 9 
or fewer. Seeds pendulous, testa thin; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
nearly the length of the seed, radicle superior.—Erect or decumbent 
rigid tomentose shrubs, with opposite coriaceous net-veined leaves, 
ovate or subulate stipules and tomentose drooping fasciculate flowers 
of moderate size. 
A genus of six? species, all African, one being extra-tropical. 
Calyx-lobes broad, ovate. 
Branches hoary or glabrate. Leaf-margins flat or nearly so 1. A. rubiginosus. 
Branches clothed with rusty tomentum. Leaf-margins 
wrinkled. . . . . ., 2. A, fulgidus, 
Calyx-lobes subulate or lanceolate. 
Tawny or hoary. 
Leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, villous below . . . 3. 4. cinerascens. 
Leaves linear oblong or linear-oblong, very thick, margins 
recurved, with buffy wool below . 4, A. cistifolius. 
Rufous. Leaves oval . 5. A, Bainesii.§ 
1. A. rubiginosus, Desf. in Mém. Mus. Par. iv. p- 5, t. 2 (1818). 
An ornamental shrub, with the habit of an Azalea, 3-5 feet high, 
branching from the base; branches strict rigid, glabrescent ; branch- 
lets supra-axillary, hoary, erect-patent, tips shortly tomentose. Leaves 
1-3 by #-1}? in., elliptical or obovate, subcoriaceous, rather crass, 
obtuse retuse or with a short obtuse point, somewhat wedge-shaped at 
the base, above minutely scabrid hairs ; veins closely reticulate ; below 
ashy or pale tawny densely tomentose with simple and stellate hairs, 
nerves many reticulate, margins flat or nearly so; petioles 3-4 iM: 3 
' stipules about } in. long, subulate from a broad connate base. Flowers 
in axillary somewhat whorled fascicles, chiefly below the leaves, 4P- 
pearing before the full development of the leaves, drooping ; peduncles 
