Leora. ] LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). 165 
below when dry, 3-7 by 1-3 in.; lateral veins about 10-11 pairs, in- 
conspicuous; petiole }—4 in.; stipules ovate, connate at the base. 
Flowers 4 in. long, in company with the leaves, subsessile or on short 
obsoletely puberulous pedicels ranging up to 3 in., in sessile terminal 
brachiate hemispherical panicles of about 3 in. diameter; bracts ovate, 
connate, small; bracteoles filiform, very small, opposite, the uppermost 
at or below the base of the calyx. Calyx red, 7; in. long, glabrate ; 
limb erect, scarcely cup-shaped, truncate or very shortly lobed, with 4 
minute teeth. Corolla-tube slender; limb scarcely 4 in. diameter ; 
lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, obsoletely puberulous at the base inside. An- 
thers } in. long. Style exserted by the length of the anthers. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, by the bank of the river, Mann! 
6. I. breviflora, Hiern. A shrub, 15 feet high. Branches ashy. 
Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both ends, chartaceous, turning pale- 
reddish in the dry state, 4-7} by 14-24 in.; lateral veins about 11- 
2 pairs, very slender; petiole 4-2 in. ; stipules ovate, apiculate, con- 
nate at base, } in. long. Flowers } in. long when expanded, on obsoletely 
puberulous pedicels ranging up to % in., in trichotomous sessile bra- 
chiate panicles of 3-6 in. diam., terminal and lateral, usually terminat- 
ing leafless branches ; bracts opposite, connate, ovate, small ; 
bracteoles opposite, filiform, very small, the uppermost subulate, minute, 
at or below the base of the calyx. Calyx green, obsoletely puberulous, 
ys in. long ; limb shallow, concave; lobes short, broad, subapiculate. 
Corolla red ; limb nearly 4 in. diam. ; lobes oval-oblong, obtuse, obso- 
letely pubescent towards the base inside. Anthers iin. long. Style 
exserted to the length of the anthers, bifid above. Fruit subdidymous 
or subglobose, 3-2 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
’. Z. brachysiphon, Hiern. A smooth glabrous glossy shrub. 
Branches terete, patent. Leaves elliptical, acuminate at both ends, 
chartaceous, 47 by 11-21 in.; lateral veins about 7-9 pairs, slender ; 
Petiole 3—1 in. ; stipules broadly ovate or subtruncate, apiculate, 4-¢ in. 
long. Flowers } in. long when expanded exclusive of the style and 
Corolla-lobes, pentamerous, on slender bracteolate pedicels of }-§ in., 
mn lax divaricately branched trichotomous pedunculate corymbose 
ee of 3-4 in. diam.; common peduncle }-2 in.; bracteoles subu- 
ate, the upper ones very small. Calyx green, 5 in. long, campanulate, 
ebracteolate, obtusely puberulous ; limb 5-cleft; teeth ovate, keeled, 
§piculate. Corolla white, glabrous except the pubescent throat ; tube 
yy Short, 1-1 in. ; lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse, }-3 in. long, reflexed. 
A thers rather shorter. Disk glabrous. Ovules impressed on the 
the ehlacentas. Style glabrous, exserted by 345-4 1D. bidentate at 
Upper Guinea. Bagroo River, Munn! 
te & 2. Suineensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 414. Branches 
ate, Upper leaves oval-oblong, subacuminate, obtusely narrowed 
