178 LXX, RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Pavetta. 
ments short. Disk glabrous. Ovary short. Style exserted by $- in, 
glabrous, fusiform above, undivided. Ovules solitary, immersed in 
the fleshy placentas. Fruit } in. diam., shining.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
i. p. 351. P. longiflora, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 210, non 
Vahl; P. refleza, Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. p. Ixii., name only (1814), 
(Salt! flowers reflexed, 4 in. long). 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon et Petit! Capt. Pullen! 
a, longiflora, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 231. 
Flowers ranging up to 12 in., white, subsessile. Stipules much apiculate. Style 
exserted by $ in. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, at 5000 ft. alt., August, 1872, Hildebrandt, 496; 1870, 
Beceari, 148. 
B. breviflora, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 231. 
Flowers yellowish, 2 in. long. 
Wile Land. Somali, Hildebrandt! Abyssinia, Hildebrandt ! 
23. P. canescens, DO. Prodr. iv. 492, ex descriptione. A shrub, 
about 4 feet high, with cinereous terete erect-patent glabrescent 
branches. Leaves obovate-oval, rounded retuse or shortly pointed at 
the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, subchartaceous, somewhat hairy 
above, hoary-velvety beneath, deciduous, 14-24 by 1-14 in.; lateral 
veins about 10 pairs; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules ovate, acuminate, con- 
nate at the base, 4-1 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, white, 3 in. long 
when expanded exclusive of the style, on short shortly pubescent 
(hirsute, DC.) pedicels, numerous, in dense globose subsessile clusters 
lateral on leafless portions of the branches. Calyx ebracteolate, $ 1. 
long, shortly hairy (hirsute, DC.) ; limb shortly toothed, teeth keeled, 
subapiculate. Corolla glabrous outside or very nearly so; tube pu- 
bescent inside ; lobes oval, mucronulate, 4 in. long, very thinly puber- 
ulous inside. Anthers nearly equalling the corolla-lobes, filaments 
short. Disk glabrous. Ovary campanulate, small; style exserted by 
nearly 4 in., glabrous below, puberulous and subclavate above, bifid at 
the tip. Ovules shortly sunk at the apex in the placenta.—P. tomentosa, 
A. Rich. in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p.181, non Roxb. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, at Ambriz, Monteiro! 
24. B. rigida, Hiern. A rigid nearly glabrous pallid shrub, 
10-12 feet high. Branches subterete, somewhat compressed towards 
the extremities. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, obliquely narrow 
at the base, glabrous, chartaceous, 6-9 by 22-32 in. ; lateral veins about 
10-12 pairs, slender; petiole 4-1 in.; stipules broadly ovate, apicu- 
late, about 3 in. long, deciduous. Flower 2 in. long, tetramerous, on 
rigid puberulous pedicels of ,~3 in., numerous, in somewhat lax axillary 
rigid pedunculate ascending bracteolate corymbs of 5-6 in. diam. ; 
common peduncle equalling or rather exceeding the leaves ; bracteoles 
subulate, small. Calyx green, } in long, turbinate, obsoletely puber™ 
lous ; limb 4/, in. long, shortly 4-lobed or sinuate-truncate. Coroll@ 
glabrous except the pubescent interior of the tube from the mouth p 
of the way downwards, white ; lobes oval, # in, long, obtuse, sp ing: 
Anthers reflexed, shorter than the corolla-lobes, twice the length of the 
filaments. Disk glabrous. Ovary small. Style exserted by 1g 4 
