Psychotria. ] LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 205. 
pedunculate panicles of about 1-2 in. diameter; bracts obsolete ; 
peduncle 13-12 in. Calyx 2 in. long; limb cup-shaped, longer than 
the ovary, shortly 5-lobed. Fruit thickly ovoid, ribbed, 2 in. long, 
crowned by the persistent calyx-limb. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Coast, Brass! 
29. BP. Afzelii, Hiern. A glabrous shining shrub. Branches 
terete, brachiate. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the 
base, chartaceous, rather paler beneath, 2-6 by 2-21 in., margins 
revolute, lateral veins about 6-8 pairs ; petiole }-3 in. ; stipules broad, 
undivided, short. Flowers 5—6-merous, }-2 in. long, on very short 
pedicels, in dense short terminal corymbose panicles of 1-3 in. diameter ; 
Common peduncle short; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx-limb 
short, with 4-6 erect small or minute teeth. Corolla whitish ; limb 
curved or straight, lobes 5-6; throat hairy. Stamens 5-6; filaments 
short, hyaline ; anthers erect, yellowish, about as long as the corolla- 
lobes. Style subpubescent or glabrous; stigmas 2, pale yellow, 
pubescent or glabrous. Berry }-1 in. long, ribbed. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Bagroo River, Mann! Brass, Barter ! 
Onitsha, Barter ! 
30. P. cristata, Hiern. Quite glabrous except the inflorescence, 
shrubby. Branches smooth. Leaves oval or elliptical, acuminate, 
somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, shining on both sides, 
rather paler beneath, 34-7 by 1}-3} in,, margins narrowly revolute, 
teral veins about 7 pairs, rather slender; petiole }-} in. ; stipules 
short, cleft? Flowers about 1 in. long, pentamerous, very shortly 
Pedicellate, in dense corymbose terminal sessile trichotomous puberulous 
cymes of 14-3 in. diameter; bracts and bracteoles very small.“ Calyx- 
limb shorter than the ovary, not broader than it, short dentate. 
Corolla white; tube subcylindrical; throat yellow, naked; lobes 5, 
Spreading, keeled and crested at the back. Anthers linear, partly ex- 
Serted. Style scarcely lobed, included. 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
North Central. Near Munsa, Schweinfurth ! 
31. PY abrupta, Hiern. A small nearly glabrate shrub. Branches. 
subterete, covered with pale corky bark, the branchlets abruptly 
narrower, somewhat angular. Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both 
ends, glabrous, chartaceous, 2-7 by 2-3 in., those at the time of 
oWering young and many smaller ; margins nearly flat, lateral veins 
about 7 pairs, slender; petioles ranging up to } in. or subobsolete 
¥ the decurrence of the leaves; stipules ovate, undivided, } in. 
Cng. Flowers about 2 in. long, on very short pedicels, several to- 
8ether, in small terminal heads ; bracteoles minute ; common peduncles 
Solitary, erect, very short in flower, lengthening in fruit and sometimes 
Attaining 12 in, long. Calyx-limb short, broad, subtruncate, glabres- 
;<ut. Corolla-lobes 5; throat bearded. Stamens exserted, filaments 
Snger than the linear-oblong anthers. Style short, bifid at the apex. 
"ry ribbed, } in. long, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Shiramba Dembe and Shigogo, Kirk ! 
