166 £XX. RUBIACES (HIERN). ( Leora. 
at the base, firmly chartaceous, of the same colour on the two surfaces, 
6 by 24 in.; lateral veins about 6 pairs, slender, inconspicuous, mar- 
gins flat; petiole } in.; stipules connate at the base. Flowers tetra- 
merous, % in. long when expanded, very shortly pedicellate, several, in 
rather dense trichotomous terminal sessile panicles of 2 in. diam. ; 
lower bracteoles pluri-setose from a short connate base, upper minute, 
subuiate, at the base of the short pedicels. Calyx glabrous, 7’; in. 
long; limb truncate, subentire. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse, } im. 
long, glabrous. Anthers exserted, } in. long. Style exserted to the 
length of the corolla-lobes, bilobed above. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea Coast, Herb. Hook. ! 
9. £. foliosa, Hiern. Much branched. Branches leafy, obtusely 
angular, ashy, compressed towards the extremities ; bark transversely 
rimose. Leaves elliptical, somewhat narrowed or subacuminate at the 
apex, mucronulate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, rigidly coria- 
ceous, glossy, 1-31 by 3-14 in., margins recurved ; lateral veins about 
10 pairs,’ slender; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules caudate-apiculate from 
an oval connate base, } in. long. Flowers tetramerous, $ 12. long 
when expanded, on short bracteolate pedicels, in dense hemispherical 
trichotomous terminal petiolate panicles of 14-2 in. diam.; common 
peduncle 3-1} in., bracteate ; bracteoles decussate rigid ovate-lanceo- 
late, the uppermost at the base of the calyx. Calyx 7's in. long, gla- 
brous, campanulate, bracteolate ; limb concave ; lobes ovate, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube slender; limb 4-2 in. diam.; lobes oval, rounded, obs0- 
letely puberulous inside near the base. Anthers 2 in. long. Style 
exserted by the length of the anthers, bifid at the tip.—Zzora, SP.» 
Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. p. 197. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 5000 ft., Mann! 
10. Z. Soyauxii, Hiern. A shrub, 4 feet high. Branches diva- 
ricate, terete, puberulous towards the extremities. Leaves oval, sub- 
acuminate, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, glabrate, chartaceous, 
turning black in the dry state, 14-21 by §-1} in. ; lateral veins about 
5 pairs, sometimes with little hairy depressions in the axils ; petiole $4 
in. long; stipules subulate from a very short broad base. Flowers 
entamerous, white, 3 in. long, on short pedicels ranging up to } mn. 
racteolate at the base or middle, several together in globose subsessile 
short panicles of 13-2 in. diam. terminating the branches and lateral 
shoots. Calyx small, glabrous; limb 5-cleft; teeth ovate. Corolla 
glabrous on both sides, 5-lobed ; leaves oval, mucronulate, spreading, 
4-} in. long. Anthers narrowly linear, 4 in. long, on filaments of half 
the length, exserted. Disk glabrous. Style glabrate, exserted by 
3-4 in., undivided, slender. 
Lower Guinea. Loango, Soyaur! 
1]. Z. inundata, Hiern. A shrub, 5 feet high. Branches tereté 
or at the extremities compressed. Leaves narrowly elliptical, attenuate 
at both ends, thinly coriaceous, 1-6 by 3-1 in. ; lateral veins about il 
pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole ranging up to 2 in.; stipules ovate, #P* 
