Psychotria.] LXX, RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 21 
along the midrib and paler beneath, 44-54 by 14-21 in., margins very 
narrowly revolute, lateral veins about 13 pairs, rather slender ; petiole 
$-} in. long; stipules broad, $-§ in. long, connate below, apiculate 
or cut, ciliate, hairy outside near the base. Flowers 4-} in. long, on 
short pedicels, crowded several together, in hemispherical terminal 
pedunculate bracteate panicles, pentamerous ; common peduncle about 
24 in., shortly pubescent, rather slender, erect; bracts narrowly ellip- 
tical, 3-8 in. long, somewhat dentate. Calyx-limb as long as the 
ovary, shortly cleft; teeth often ciliate at the tip. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, straight ; throat thinly pubescent ; lobes thickened at the back 
near the tip. Anthers exserted. Style bifid with spreading branches. 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 
49. BP. lucens, Hiern. A glabrous shining shrub. Branches 
compressed towards the extremities. Leaves oval, acuminate, wedge- 
shaped at the base, thinly chartaceous, paler beneath, 6-8 by 244 in., 
margins very narrowly revolute, lateral veins about 13-14 pairs, slender, 
clearly marked beneath ; petiole 4-1 in. ; stipules oval-oblong, glabrous, 
shortly bifid, 4 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, about } in. long, on 
short pedicels, numerons, in terminal rather lax rounded pedunculate 
bracteate panicles of about 3 in. diam. ; common pedancle 13-2} in. 
long ; primary branches about 5, umbellate; bracts lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, about din. long. Calyx-limb as long as the ovary, shortly cleft. 
Corolla deeply lobed ; throat bearded. 
Upper Guinea. Prince’s Island, Barter ! 
_ 90. BP. reptans, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 418. A small climb- 
Ing or procumbent shrub. Branches subterete, glabrescent, towards 
the extremities hirsute-puberulous subrufous more or less compressed. 
aves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped or occasionally subobtuse 
at the base, glabrate above, rather paler and puberulous beneath at least 
along the midrib and 12-18 pairs of lateral veins, chartaceous, 14-5 by 
-2 in., margins very narrowly revolute; petioles ranging up to } in., 
irsute puberulous; stipules deeply bifid, 3-4 in. long, deciduous, 
lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliate, arising from the dilated base of the 
stipule. Flowers about } in. long, dimorphic, sessile or subsessile, a 
€w or several together in little heads arranged in axillary and subter- 
minal divaricately branched bracteate hirsute-puberulous panicles ; 
bracts $-} in. long, lanceolate ; bracteoles smaller; common peduncle 
2 in. Calyx subcampanulate ; limbrather exceeding the ovary, shortly 
o-cleft ; lobes deltoid, recurving at the tip. Corolla-tube straight or 
slightly curved ; throat bearded ; lobes 5, lanceolate, each furnished at 
t e k near the apex with a short thick process which is conspicuous 
m the bud, reflexed in flower. Stamens 5, exserted or included, cor- 
responding with the included or exserted style. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 
Strongly ribbed, 3-} in. long, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb. 
Ri Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone Hb, Afzelius! Th. Vogel! G. Don! Bagroo 
ver, Mann! Cape Coast, Brass ! (Anthers exserted). 
51. ®. mucronata, Hiern. A nearly glabrous undershrub, about 
2-8 feet high, not much branched. Leaves oval or elliptical, not acu- 
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