214 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Psychotria. 
deltoid, apiculate, connate at the base, 3-} in. long, undivided. 
Flowers 2 in. long, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, pentamerous, in 
dense globose terminal cymes of 1-14 in. diam. ; common peduncle 
very short; bracteoles lanceolate, about equalling the pedicels. Calyx- 
limb hemispherical, nearly as long as the ovary, 5-cleft. Corolla-tube 
more or less curved; throat pubescent; lobes 5, small. Anthers 5, 
well included. 
Upper Guinea. Prince’s Island, Mann! 
58. B. Ansellii, Hiern. A glabrous, scandent, shining shrub. 
Branches rambling, terete, smooth. Leaves more or less elliptical, 
much acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, 3-5 by 3-13 in., 
margins revolute, lateral veins about 7-8 pairs; petiole 1—? in.; sti- 
pules very short, depresso-deltoid, apiculate, caducous. Flowers } in. 
long, on shorter pedicels, in rather lax or rather dense terminal tricho- 
tomous panicles; common peduncles ranging up to 12 in.; bracts and 
bracteoles very small. Calyx-limb small, with 5 small teeth. Corolla- 
tube slender, straight or somewhat curved; throat downy ; lobes 9, 
short, reflexed. Anthers 5, partly exserted. Disk elevated. Style 
wid at the apex.—Chasalia? laaiflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don ; Grand Bassa, Ansell! “ West Africa,” 
Adm. Grey ; Old Calabar (fl. crimson and yellow), Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
59. B. zanguebarica, Hiern. A small glabrous lucid shrub, 
Branches terete, towards the extremities compressed. Leaves narrowly 
oval, not or scarcely acuminate, wedge-shaped or attenuate at the base, 
chartaceous, slightly paler beneath, 14-4 by 3-14 in., margins ar- 
rowly revolute, lateral veins about 6-7 pairs; petiole j!,—4 in. ; stipules 
short, broad, apiculate, undivided, leaving a deciduous ring of hairs 
inside. Flowers pentamerons, }-3 in. long, subsessile or shortly pedi- 
cellate, few together in little clusters arranged in trichotomously 
branched corymbose or hemispherical pedunculate or sessile termiD 
cymes of 1-2 in. diam. ; common peduncles ranging up to fin. ; bracts 
and bracteoles small. Calyx-limb shorter than the ovary, 5-cleft; 
teeth deltoid. Corolla-tube slender, rather curved. Berries ovoid- 
globose, ¢ in. long, bisulcate and faintly ribbed. 
Mozamb. Distr. Bagamoyo and Monfia Island, Zanzibar Coast, Kirk! Ro- 
vuma Bay, 10° S. lat., Kirk! 
60. PB. umbraticola, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxv. p-_230 
(1875), sub Chasalid. A glabrate leafy shining shrub, 6-7 feet high ; 
branches strict, smooth, terete, somewhat compressed towards the ex- 
tremities. Leaves oval, scarcely or shortly acuminate, wedge-shaf 
at the base, firmly chartaceous, rather paler beneath, 2-4 by 1}-24 4 
margins narrowly and subrepandly revolute, lateral veins about. 5-6 
pairs, slender ; stipules very short, shortly apiculate, broad, undivided, 
leaving a ring of hair inside; petiole 44in. Flowers nearly 1 ™ 
long, congested, a few together, sessile, in hemispherical trichotomous 
pedunculate terminal cymes of 1+2 in. diam.; common peduncle 
