204: LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). [| Psychotria. 
ends, venose, shortly petiolate, green on both sides, in the dry specimens 
dark green above pale green below, 1-14 in. long ; stipules interpetiolar, 
ovate, acute, persistent, } in. long. Corymbs fastigiate, axillary and 
terminal ; peduncles bifid, many flowered; bracts sublanceolate, acute, 
minute, at the forks, dark purplish. Calyx minute, obsoletely or 
obtusely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular; tube cylindrical, rather curved 
inwards, nearly } in. long; lobes 5, ovate, rather acute. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, according to Schumacher, where the natives call it 
“ Kolly-tjo.” 
In the British Museum there is a specimen from Cape Coast collected by Brass, 
which agrees with the above description except that the leaves are scarcely venose, 
the stipules are mostly deciduous, the corymbs are terminal (1 in. diam.) and tricho- 
tomously branched. - 
26. P. Benthamiana, Hiern. A glabrous shining shrub of 
moderate size. Branches’ weak, terete, towards the extremities com- 
pressed. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 
chartaceous, 2-3 by 2-1} in., margins very narrowly revolute, lateral 
veins about 6 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 2-2 in. long; stipules short, 
ovate, connate at the base, apiculate, undivided, +1,-4 in. long. Flowers 
pentamerous, about 2 in. long, crowded in trichotomously branched 
terminal or subterminal pedunculate corymbose cymes of about 1 in. 
diameter ; common peduncle about 1 in. long ; bracts minute or obsolete 
or occasionally one foliaceous pair present. Calyx-limb very short, 
truncate. Berry (immature) globose, smooth, ¢ in. diameter, green.— 
Chasalia parviflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 417. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! 
27, P. owariensis, A. L. Juss. in Mém. Mus. Par. vi. p. 379 
(1820). A small glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, 
attenuate at both ends, shortly petiolate, 3-7 by 1-24 in., lateral veins 
. about 13-14 pairs ; stipules caducous, undivided? Flowers 4 in. long, 
white; pedicels 2-3-flowered ; corymbs terminal, 2-24 in. diameter, 
rather lax; bracteoles subulate. Calyx-limb 5-dentate. Corolla nar- 
rowly funnel-shaped; limb 5-partite, reflexed. Stamens 5. Berry 
rough, } in. long or rather more, ribbed.— Hylaciwm owariense, Palisot 
de Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. 84, t. 113. 
Upper Guinea. Deserts in the interior of the kingdom of Warree, Beauvois. 
A specimen with chartaceous shining leaves and terete branches compress 
above, may belong to this species; it was gathered by Mann in the island of Fer 
nando Po, 
28. BP. Brassii, Hiern. Glabrous. Branches dark green in the 
dry state, compressed and subherbaceous at the extremities, somewha 
constricted at the nodes. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shape 
at the base, thinly chartaceous, dark green above, rather paler an 
glistening beneath, 34-7 by 14-22 in., margins nearly flat, lateral 
veins about 10 pairs, slender, tertiary veins slender, rather conspicuous 
beneath ; petiole about } in.; stipules ovate, apiculate, } in. long; 
apparently entire. Flowers on very short pedicels, several together, 2 
little clusters on terminal (and subterminal) trichotomous subcorymbos? 
