Psychotria.] LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 215 
$1} in. ; bracts minute or obsolete, or occasionally one foliaceous pair 
present. Calyx-limb small, subtruncate, Corolla white ; tube slightly 
-curved ; lobes 5, spreading. Anthers exserted. Berry shortly ovoid, 
obscurely ribbed, black, 2 in. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island, Hildebrandt! 
61. P. nubica, Del. Pl. Mér. p. 66 (1826). Ashrub. Branches 
glabrescent. Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both ends, glabrous above, 
pubescent beneath on the rather prominent lateral veins, 3 in. long; 
petiole short, pubescent; stipules triangular. Flowers pentamerous, 
3 in. long, 3-6 together, forming little clusters arranged in trichoto- 
mously branched terminal convex cymes of nearly 4 in. diam. Calyx- 
limb short; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla pubescent outside; limb 
campanulate; lobes 5, half the length of the tube, pubescent on both 
sides. Stamens 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla; anthers ver- 
satile. Style exserted by }-2 in. 
Mile Land. Sennaar, near Singué, Cailliaud. 
The description is taken from Delile; I have seen no specimen, and cannot feel 
Sure that it has been assigned to the right genus. 
UNKNOWN SPECIES. 
Pyschotria angustifolia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 595, non Poir., an erect 
nearly simple shrub, with oval-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and terminal panicled 
pale red flowers, from Sierra Leone, on the banks of rivulets, is unknown tome. Mr. 
Bentham, in the Niger Flora, p. 421, suggests that it is probably a Pavetta or a Tarenna, 
62. GRUMILEBA, Gaertn. Fruct. i. p. 138, t. 28, f. 2 (1788). 
_ Calyx-limb cup-shaped, shortly toothed, wider than the ovary, per- 
sistent. Corolla shortly tubular ; throat hairy ; lobes 5, ovate, reflexed 
in the flower, valvate in the bud, induplicately so towards the tip. 
Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla, partly exserted, gla- 
brous; anthers linear, fixed at the back above the base ; filaments about 
half the length of the anthers. Disk elevated, glabrous. Ovary 
2-celled ; style shortly exserted, bifid at the tip; ovules solitary, erect, 
Somewhat compressed and coarsely wrinkled. Berry crowned by the 
calyx-limb, oval-oblong or subglobose, ribbed; pyrenes 2; pericarp 
Coriaceous. Seeds solitary; albumen deeply ruminated. Embryo 
rather curved, small, dorsal; radicle inferior.—Shrubs with opposite 
leaves and branches, oblong or oval stipules and small congested or 
Paniculate hermaphrodite flowers arranged in terminal cymes. 
A genus of moderate size, apparently confined to the Old World. 
Flowers capitate in solitary sessile heads. . . . . + 1. G. psychotrioides, 
Orescence paniculate, not capitate in solitary sessile heads. 
Stipules undivided, 
Calyx toothed or shortly lobed. 
Leaves succulent, coriaceous 54-7 in. long . 2. G. succulenta 
Leaves chartaceous, 3-5 in. vn te ew ew ew 8G. Kirkii. 
Calyx truncate, subentire . . . . 0... + + 4 G@. macrocarpa, 
