Pavetta. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 177 
little pits in the axils; petiole }~? in.; stipules apiculate from a broad 
subtruncate base, }-+ in. long, covering a ring of caducous hairs. 
Flowers tetramerous, 4 in. long when expanded, exclusive of the style, 
on rather shorter puberulous pedicels, many together. in crowded 
terminal sessile corymbs of about 2 in. diameter. Calyx 3-4 in. long, 
puberulous outside, ebracteolate ; limb unequally 4-lobed ; lobes oval, 
rounded or obtuse, 41;-;5 in. long, recurving, deciduous. Corolla 
glabrous except the bearded throat; lobes 4, reflexed, ovate-oblong, 
subobtuse, nearly + in. long. Anthers + in. long, reflexed, apiculate ; 
filaments rather short, recurving. Disk hispidulous, cushion-shaped. 
Ovary short. Style exserted by } in., puberulous above, undivided. 
Fruit +1 in. diameter ; seeds 1 in. diameter, excavated on the inner face. 
—Baconia montana, Hook. f..in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. p. 196. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7000 feet, Mann! 
21. PB. ternifolia, Hook. f. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
xxix. 86, t. 51, sub Ixorf. A nearly glabrous shrub, apparently 
evergreen ; stem erect ; branches ternate angular. Leaves ternate, ellip- 
tical, subacuminate, wedge-shaped at the subsessile base, chartaceous, 
glossy above, concave beneath, glabrous except little hairy depressions 
in the axils of the 6-7 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 2-4 by 3-1 in.; 
stipules abruptly subulate from a broad subtruncate base, keeled, 3-4 
In. long. Flowers tetramerous or occasionally pentamerous, jasmine- 
scented, 3 in. long, on rather shorter puberulous pedicels, numerous, in 
dense sessile corymbs of 1-2 in. diameter. Calyx } in. long, campanu- 
late-turbinate, puberulous outside; lobes rounded, imbricated or 
Sccasionally contorted in the same direction as the corolla, 4), in. long. 
Corolla white, glabrous except the bearded throat; lobes reflexed, 
ovate-oblong, 4 in. long or rather more. Anthers } in. long ; filaments 
Tather short. Disk cushion-shaped, glabrous. Ovary short. Style 
*xserted by 4 in., undivided, glabrous. Ovales solitary, immersed in 
the fleshy placentas.—Stylocoryne, sp., T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., 
App. p. 636, 
Wile Land. Karagué, by water, Speke and Grant ! 
gr, B, Sardeniefolia, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii, m. 
. 1 (1842), A small shrub or ranging up to 10 feet, nearly gla- 
rous, Branches opposite, pale, subterete, erect-patent, leafy at the 
extremities, Leaves narrowly elliptical or somewhat obovate, more or 
“88 pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate or sub- 
ratilo base, firmly chartaceous, often marked with immersed glands, 
. by 2-1 in. ; lateral veins about 6 pairs, very slender, inconspicu- 
08; stipules broadly ovate, apiculate, 4-4 in. long, covering caducous 
athe Flowers tetramerous, white, 4-8 in. long, on short glabrous 
“ner slender pedicels, several together, in short, lateral and subter- 
Lig shortly pedunculate subfasciculate often drooping corymbs of 
2 im. long. Calyx glabrous, turbinate-campanulate, ebracteolate, 
as long ; limb shortly 4-cleft, teeth obtuse, broad. Corolla gla- 
8 outside, puberulous inside the throat ; lobes about equalling the 
ay obtuse. Anthers nearly as long as the corolla-lobe ; fila- 
. LL x 
