154 LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). [ Coffea. 
9. CG. Afzelii, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. ser. i1., i. p- 174. 
Glabrous. Branches reddish, smooth, terete, at the extremities com- 
pressed. Leaves elliptical or somewhat ovate, obtusely acuminate, 
wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, 14-3 by 3-1} m.; lateral 
veins about 4—5 pairs, very slender; petioles ranging up to ¢ in. long; 
stipules apiculate from a broad base. Flowers pentameronus, 2 together, 
axillary, pedunculate, bracteolate ; peduncle solitary, bearing near its 
base 4 small bracts consisting of 2 unequal pairs connate at the base 
into a calyculus and bearing at its apex 2 foliaceous large shortly 
stalked bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Calyx-limb short, wider than 
the ovary, 5-toothed. Corolla-lobes oval, obtuse. Anthers 5, inserted 
on the naked throat below the mouth of the corolla, sessile, fixed by 
the middle of the back. Style bidentate, glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone (flowers in bud, probably rather small), Afzelius! 
Seen only in very young flower in Afzelius’ herbarium. 
10. ©. subcordata, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. il., 1. 
p. 174. A shrub with slender terete hispidulous branches, hispid- 
pubescent at the extremities ; branchlets patent. Leaves oval, obtusely 
acuminate, mucronulate, cordate rounded or somewhat hollowed at the 
base, firmly chartaceous, glabrescent above except the puberulous mid- 
rib, hispidulous beneath on the midrib and on the 4-5 pairs of lateral 
veins which have little hairy tufts in the axils, ranging up to 33 by 
13 in. ; petiole to } in., hispid-pubescent; stipules caudate-apiculate 
from a short deltoid base, altogether 1-1 in. long. Flowers $-¢ 
long when expanded (4-)5-6 (—7)-merous, 1-2 together and axillary, 
also several together in abbreviated hemispherical cymes, subsessile or 
slightly pedicellate, fragrant. Calyx-limb about 3}, in. long, glabrous, 
cleft, invested by the double involucre ; lobes rounded; each involucre 
composed of 2 pairs of opposite herbaceous bracteoles connate into & 
tube, hispidulous ; outer involucre with 2 deltoid and 2 subulate lobes, 
nearly equalling the calyx (or sometimes with 1 pair foliaceous a0 
exceeding the calyx); inner involucre with 2 oval cuspidate petiolate 
foliaceous lobes much exceeding the calyx and 2 depresso-deltoid api- 
culate lobes rather exceeding the calyx. Corolla pure white ; lobes 
oval, obtuse, } in. long. Anthers wholly exserted, ,3; in. long, fixed at 
the back 3 above the base; filaments } in. long. Berry red. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
1l. G. rupestris, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. U» * 
p. 174. A small deciduous nearly glabrous shrub. Branches terete, 
cinereous ; young shoots puberulous. Leaves (young, 1 in. long) ov 
somewhat narrowed at both ends; lateral veins about 4 pairs ; petioles 
short ; stipules ovate, apiculate, about equalling the petiole. Flowers 
precocious, 1 in. long just before expansion, # in. long when expanded, 
white, fragrant, sessile, several together, clustered at the ends of the 
branches, terminal, pentamerous ; bracts (young leaves P) foliaceous 
4 in. long, oval; bracteoles herbaceous, broadly ovate, apiculate, 10 
pairs; outer pair exceeding the ovary, inner pair smal] about equalling 
