174 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Pavetta. 
shining, nearly glabrous, }-} in. diameter.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 352, 
non Oliv. sub Izord. P. congesta, Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. lxii. (name 
only). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ritppell, Quartin-Dillon and Petit! Salt! Schimper! 
Roth! 
A. Richard, Fl. Abyss. i. 852, gives under this species two varieties, a. cinerascens 
with leaves and corolla-tube cinereo-hirsute, and 8. g/abra with branchlets leaves and 
corollas glabrous ; but none of the specimens seen by me agree with either. Oliver's 
plant, collected by Grant, is now referred to a different species. 
14. PB. Oliveriana, Hiern. A shrub with pale tomentellous sub- 
terete erect-patent branchlets. Leaves oval, subacuminate, obtuse at 
the base, softly hairy, with short hairs on the upper surface, velvety 
beneath with short pale hairs, somewhat leathery to the touch (Grant), 
1}-4 by $-22 in.; lateral veins about 8-11 pairs; petiole $-} in; 
stipules ovate, acuminate, 3-4 in. long, caducous. Flowers white, 
tetramerous, 1-12 in. long, on short hairy pedicels, numerous, in dense 
sessile terminal hemispherical corymbs of about 5 in. diameter. Calyx 
hairy, 1-4 in. long; limb erect, deeply lobed, lobes subulate, rather 
unequal, 3+ in. long. Corolla pubescent outside; tube pubescent 
inside ; lobes oval, mucronulate, } in. long. Anthers 2 in. long, ex- 
serted ; filaments short. Disk glabrous. Ovary turbinate-campanulate, 
small; style exserted by 2-3 in., glabrous below, puberulous above, 
undivided ; ovule immersed in the pale fleshy placenta.—Pavetta, SP. 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 636. Ixora abyssinica, var., Oliv. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond, xxix. 87, non Fresen. sub Pavettd. 
Wile Land. Karagué, by water, Speke and Grant! 
15. P. mollis, Afzel. in herb. non Br. A pale smooth . plant. 
Branches erect-patent, whitish, terete, glabrescent, puberulous at the 
extremities. Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both ends or at /eas 
towards the base, softly tomentellous at least on the midrib and 8 
pairs of lateral slender veins, 14-4 by 4-13 in.; petiole }-2 in. ; stipules 
apiculate from a broad ovate or truncate base, 4-4 in. long. Flowers 
tetramerous, on softly pubescent pedicels of 3-2 in., many, in corymbs 
of 1-2 in. diameter, at the ends of naked shoots of the previous season. 
Calyx about ¢ in. long, pubescent, turbinate ; limb 4-partite ; segmen 
subulate. Corolla (in bud) pubescent outside; lobes acuminate. 
Ovules solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. 
Upper Guinea. Hb. Afzelius! Cape Coast, Brass! ; 
P. subglabra, Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 78, is unknown to me; but it may prove 
to be identical with this species ; it came from Guinea, but no special locality is give, 
and the following characters may be added: leaves subciliate, not attenuate at #? 
base, 2 in. long, corymb fastigiate, corolla-tube 4 in, long, style 14 in. 
16. P. dolichosepala, Hiern. A shrub, 6 feet high. Brancblets 
terete, pale, smooth, glabrate, green and puberulous at the extremities: 
Leaves opposite, elliptical or somewhat obovate, subacuminate, weag® 
shaped at the base, membranous, glabrate above, puberulous and ra : 
paler beneath, 4-7 by 14-33 in. ; lateral veins about 6-8 pairs, slender ; 
petiole }-4 in., puberulous; stipules ovate, apiculate or obtus 
connate at the base, ++} in. long. Flowers tetramerous, 1 im. long 
