Pavetta. | LXX. RUBIACEA (HIERN). 171 
turning blackish in the dry state, 5-7 by 2-3 in.; lateral veins about 
7-9 pairs, slender; petiole $—14 in.; stipules ovate or apiculate from 
a broad base, 3-1 in. long, caducous. Flowers } in. long, tetramerous, 
white, on short slender ebracteolate pedicels in terminal corymbs of 
2-4 in. diameter ; common peduncle }-3 in. Calyx 4, in. long; limb 
. deeply 4-lobed ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla glabrous outside, pubes- 
cent within the throat; lobes oblong, scarcely equalling the tube, ob- 
tuse. Anthers equalling the corolla-lobes, two and a half times the length 
of the filaments. Disk glabrous. Style glabrous, exserted by }°, in., 
undivided, rather thickened at the fusiform obtuse stigma. Fruit 
(immature) ovoid, } in. long—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 414. 
Izora owariensis, Poir. in Encycl. Méth. Suppl. iii. 207 (1813). Com- 
pare also I. africana, P. de Beauv. ex A. Rich. in Mém. Soc. Hist. 
Par. v. p. 117 (1834). 
Upper Guinea. Oware, P. de Beauvois ; Quorra, Th. Vogel ! 
6. P. glaucescens, Hiern. Glabrous in most parts, shining. 
Branchlets smooth. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acutely acuminate at 
both ends, chartaceous, pale and glaucescent beneath except the 8-9 
slender pairs of lateral veins, 6-9 by 14-23 in., the uppermost (bracts) 
y 1 in.; petiole 4-2 in.; stipules subtruncate, connate, apiculate, 
glabrous, $4 in. Flowers tetramerous, } in. long, on minutely 
puberulous ebracteate pedicels of 4-1 in., in globose sessile panicles of 
about 4 in. diameter, Calyx } in. long, turbinate ; limb ¢ in. long, 
minutely puberulous, deeply lobed ; lobes ovate, puberulous, ciliolate, 
obtusely keeled, 4 in. long. Corolla glabrous outside, pubescent inside 
above the middle of the tube; lobes ovate-oblong, reflexed, mucronu- 
late, 3-§ in. long. Anthers narrowly linear, about } in. long, at length 
twisted, somewhat apiculate, exserted ; filaments short. Style exserted 
by $ in, puberulous above, stigma narrowly fusiform, emarginate. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
B a. ®, puberula, Hiern. A rather pale shrub, 10 feet high.. 
ranchlets compressed or angular, shortly pubescent. Leaves elliptical, 
shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, glabrate 
above, puberulous at least on the principal veins beneath, 9-12 by 
9°] 0 in., or the uppermost (bracts) about 8 by 4 in.; lateral veins about 
late Pairs ; petiole 2-1 in., puberulous; stipules broadly ovate, apicu- 
»#in. long. Flowers tetramerous, } in, long, on puberulous ebrac- 
late pedicels of yo—} in. or less, in a repeatedly branched brachiate 
ewe Panicle of 46 in. Calyx 2 in. long, puberulous or subglabrous ; 
nr deciduous, deeply lobed ; lobes lanceolate or ovate, y'5—¢ 1m. long, 
mi adn: Corolla white, glabrous outside, pubescent inside about the 
alf le of the robust tube ; lobes linear or oblong, subapiculate, reflexed, 
‘ as long again as the tube. Anthers exserted, reflexed, # in. long, 
ae ey linear, apiculate ; filaments ;!, in, Style exserted by 1 in., 
wnutely pubescent or glabrate except the puberulous fusiform emar- 
stigma. Fruit (perhaps immature) } in. diameter, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann / 
