Pawetta. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 179 
glabrous except the puberulous subfusiform retuse stigma. Ovules 
solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
25. P. gracilipes, Hiern. A small pallid nearly glabrous glossy 
shrub. Branches smooth glabrous, obtusely angular, compressed 
towards the extremities. Leaves oblanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at 
the base, membranous, glabrous, 10-134 by 34-44 in.; lateral veins 
about 12-16 pairs, slender, inconspicuous; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules cau- 
date-apiculate from a broad ovate connate base, }-Zin. long. Flowers 
humerous, $3 in. long, tetramerous, on slender puberulous pedicels of 
3-¥ in., in axillary bracteolate pedunculate subglobose rather lax pen- 
dulous corymbs of 4-6 in. diam. ; common peduncle slender, glabrous, 
drooping, about equalling the leaves; bracteoles small and subulate, 
sometimes with one or two linear or narrowly elliptical bracts of 14-2 in. 
long. Calyx ¥},-4 in. long, obsoletely puberulous ; limb hemispherical, 
4-cleft, lobes rounded or obtuse. Corolla glabrous except the pubes- 
cent interior of the tube from the mouth part of the way down; lobes 
‘elliptical or ovate-oval, about 8 in. long, obtuse. Anthers } in. long ; 
filaments to in. Disk glabrous. Ovary small. Style exserted by 
i-$ in., glabrous except the minutely puberulous subfasiform undi- 
vided stigma. Ovules solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. 
Upper Guinéa. River Gaboon, Mann! 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
P. latiflora. G. Don, Gen, Syst. iii. p. 575, is Memecylon Donianwm, Planch. ; Oliv. 
- Trop. Afr. ii. p. 463. 
57. COFFEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 114. 
Calyx-tube short, campanulate turbinate or urceolate ; limb small or 
obsolete, cleft or obscurely toothed, persistent, not accrescent. Corolla 
Salver- or somewhat funnel-shaped, membranous or slightly coriaceous ; 
tube short or elongated ; throat glabrous; limb spreading, 5-7-partite, 
rarely 4. or: 8-partite, lobes contorted dextrorsely (as seen from in- 
side) in eestivation: Stamens 5-7, rarely 4 or 8, inserted at the mouth 
Of the corolla, exserted or partly included, glabrous ; filaments short or 
obsolete or even two-thirds of the length of the anthers; anthers 
linear, fixed at the back above the base. Disk fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 
2-celled ; style filiform, glabrous, usually shortly exserted, bifid ; lobes 
‘near spathulate or tapering ; ovules solitary, subpeltately attached 
Pout the middle of the ovary or rather lower, amphitropous. Berry 
in our species) ellipsoidal oblong or subglobose, more or less fleshy ; 
Pyrenes 2 (one sometimes abortive), papery or coriaceous, convex on 
the back, flat with a narrow usually deep longitudinal furrow on the 
- Seeds plano-convex ; umbilicus ventral; testa membranous, in- 
truded within the farrow of the face; embryo somewhat curved ; 
cotyledons foliaceous; radicle subterete, inferior, longer than the 
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