Tzora. | LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 167 
culate, connate at the base, 2-} in. long. Flowers tetramerous, short, 
on short pedicels, crowded in short terminal sessile panicles of } in. ; 
bracteoles ovate, small, the uppermost at the base of the calyx. Calyx 
ys in. long, glabrous; limb concave; lobes deltoid, subapiculate. 
Corolla-tube apparently short; lobes oval, obtuse, 3 in. long. Fruit 
subdimidiate-oblique, 4 in. long or rather more. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! 
12. I. minutifiora, Hiern. A shrub, 8 feet high. Branches 
terete. Leaves elliptical, acuminate at both ends, firmly chartaceons, 
6-8 by 24-21 in. ; lateral veins about 14 pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; 
petiole 3-3 in. ; stipules ovate, apiculate, connate at base. Flowers 
sessile, very small, crowded in sessile very short terminal clusters ; 
bracteoles subulate, at the base of the calyx, very small. Calyx gla- 
brous, about .), in. long or perhaps rather more; limb subtruncate, 
with 4-5 minute teeth. Corolla-tube apparently very short; lobes 4, 
oval, obtuse. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann! 
13. I. modesta, Hiern. A glabrous glossy shrub, 10 feet high. 
Branchlets terete, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. 
Leaves obovate-elliptical, narrowly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the 
base, membranous, 10-12 by 34-4 in.; lateral veins about 10-12 
pairs; petiole 12-2in.; stipules much apiculate from a broad ovate or 
subtruncate base, }-4 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, small, subsessile, 
10 very short dense bracteolate lateral panicles, near the ends of the 
Tanches ; bracteoles ovate, not very small. Calyx about yy in. long, 
bracteolate ; limb broader than the inferior portion, hemispherical, 
4-cleft ; teeth broadly ovate. Corolla glabrous except the bearded 
throat; lobes apiculate (in bud). Style glabrous, bidentate. Ovules 
Solitary, immersed in the fleshy pendulous funicule or placenta. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! 
56. PAVETTA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 114. 
Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate; limb 4. or very rarely 
5-lobed or subtruncate, persistent or deciduous; lobes short or elong- 
ated. Corolla usually salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical or funnel- 
shaped, usually slender ; throat bearded or pubescent, sometimes gla- 
rous; limb 4- or very rarely 5-partite, segments oval or oblong, 
*Preading or reflexed, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from inside) in 
the bud. Stamens 4 or very rarely 5, inserted at the mouth of the 
Corolla, exserted, spreading or reflexed ; anthers linear, glabrous, nearly 
A iualling the corolla-lobes, fixed by the back at or near the base, after 
Owering usually twisted ; filaments short or half the length of the 
anthers, Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary small, 2-celled (very rarely 
4-celled) ; style exserted by at least the length of the corolla-lobes, 
flender ; stigma narrowly fusiform or slightly club-shaped, undivided 
or bidentate at the tip ; ovules solitary, usually peltately immersed or 
