Grumilea. | LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 219 
3-# in. long, tricuspidate at the tip. Flowers sulphur-coloured, about 
# in. long, subsessile, many together, crowded in terminal simple or 
branched capitate cymes; bracteoles minute or absent; common 
peduncle about 1 in., erect, robust. Calyx puberulous; limb short, 
obscurely toothed. Corolla-lobes 5; tube straight. Style bidentate. 
Berry. didymous, depresso-globose, vaguely ribbed, } in. diameter, 
2-celled, 2-seeded. Albumen apparently ruminated. 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, near Bendo, Schweinfurth! near Maschirr Hills, 
Schweinfurth ! 
63.. TRIAINOLEPIS, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
PI. ii. p. 126. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; limb cup-shaped, unequally 5-7-toothed ; 
teeth subulate, persistent. Corolla woolly-tomentose; tube slender, 
exceeding the calyx, glabrous inside, throat densely bearded ; lobes 5, 
lanceolate, spreading, woolly outside, glabrous inside, valvate in ssti- 
vation. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla, glabrous ; 
anthers oblong, dorsifixed, partly exserted; filaments short. Disk 
hemispherical, hairy. Ovary 5-7-celled; style glabrous, exserted, 
filiform, with 5-7 lobes at the apex; ovules solitary erect, compressed, 
anatropous; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit pisiform, 5-7-celled ; 
pyrenes bony, 1-seeded. Seeds compressed, erect; testa membranous ; 
albumen fleshy ; cotyledons small; radicle terete, inferior.—Branches 
Woody terete; leaves opposite; stipules small tricuspidate ; flowers rather 
small hermaphrodite in terminal corymbose cymes. 
A genus comprising the two following species and confined to this Flora and to 
Ma ascar, unless indeed, as seems probable, it ought to be united with Psathura, 
oir. 
Style with linear lobes, not capitate. Leaves pubescent 
= beneath » 2... we ee ee ww we LL Liagfricana, 
Style capitate-lobulate at the apex. Leaves nearly gla- 
brows. 2... , te ew ew ew we ww ee 2 8. Hildebrandtii. 
l. ¥. africana, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii, 126. 
Much branched, young parts pubescent; branches reddish. Leaves 
ovate or nearly elliptical, acuminate or acute, wedge-shaped at the 
®, chartaceous, puberulous above, appressedly pubescent beneath, 
173: by 1-13 in., lateral veins about 10-12 pairs, slender ; petiole 
53 in. long; stipules about } in. long, teeth filiform glabrous. Flowers 
¥ in. long; limb 3-4 in. diameter. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma Bay, 10° 8. Lat., Kirk! 
1 2. T. Hildebrandtii, Vatke in Oecsterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxv. p. 230 
(1875). A nearly glabrescent shrub, 6-7 feet high. Leaves narrowly 
‘ye or elliptical, narrowed at both ends, firmly chartaceous, nearly 
hy phove, rather hairy in the axils of yin pers of jateral 
.') <4 by 3-1 in.; petiole in.; stipules im, long. lowers 
tin, long, w tte, Ovary 7_6- Ene style capitate-lobulate. Fruit red. 
0 zamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island, in sandy places, Hildebrandt ! 
°eurs also in North West Madagascar (Pervillé /). 
