222 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [ Geophila. 
pubescent, inner bracts narrower, ciliate. Calyx-limb with short ovate 
or subulate unequal teeth. Corolla-buds hairy ; lobes deltoid. Fruit 
violaceous. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Prince’s Island, Mann! 
6. G@. obvallata, F'. Didr. in Copenhag. Vidensk. Medd. 1854, 
p. 186. Stems creeping, 20-30 feet long, 1-2 in. high, rooting at 
the nodes, glabrous. Leaves ovate or cordiform, obtuse or nearly 
rounded at the apex, reniform at the base, thinly chartaceous, glabrous 
or nearly so, rather paler beneath, 3-2 by 4-12 in.; petiole 2-3 in., 
glabrous or with a row of short hairs; stipules rounded, glabrous, 
entire, 7,—;5 in. long. Flowers about 4 in. long, pentamerous, on 
very short pedicels, about 2-6 together, enclosed in a cup-shaped or 
hemispherical involucre nearly as long as the flowers; bracts of the 
involucre about 4, roundly oval, imbricated, glabrous; bracteoles 
absent ; common peduncle 4-14 in. long, glabrous, terminating short 
leaf-bearing erect branches. Calyx green; limb with unequal subulate 
teeth falling short of the white glabrous corolla-limb. Fruit red, + in. 
diameter.—Psychotria obvallata, Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 111; Geo- 
phila (probably a species of), Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 421; eo- 
phala, spec. aff. G. reniformi, Benth. Le. p. 422. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, (Heudelot)! Aquapim, 
Isert ; Niger Expedition, at Brass, creeping about the roots of trees, Barter! Fer 
nando Po, Barter! Mann! 
7. G. involucrata, Schweinf. mss. in herb. Puberulous. Leaves 
nearly orbicular, rounded at the apex, reniform at the base, very nearly 
glabrous, membranous, rather paler beneath, 14-3 in. diameter ; petiole 
14-24 in.; stipules semicircular, glabrous, entire, yz} in. long. 
Flowers about 4 in. long or more, about 9 together, crowded, bracteate, 
enclosed within an imbricated glabrous hemispherical involucre of 
4-1 in. diameter, glabrous ; bracts broadly oval, entire or cleft ; com- 
mon peduncle 4- in. long, terminal on short branches overtopped by 
the leaves. Calyx 3 in. long; segments obovate, obtuse, 4-6, about 
} in. long. Corolla white; lobes 5, ovate, obtuse. Style-branches 
short, broad. 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, near Munsa, Schweinfurth ! 
Wile Land. Niampiam-land, at Mbruole, Schweinfurth! 
65. CEPHAELIS, Swartz; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p- 12/. 
Calyx-tube campanulate or oblong; limb toothed or cleft or slit 
down one side, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shape@; 
tube short or elongated ; lobes usually 5, short, erect or spreading, 
valvate in the bud; throat more or less bearded. Stamens usually 2% 
inserted on the throat of the corolla; anthers linear or oblong; &* 
serted or included, tixed at the back. Disk various, glabrous. Ovary 
2- or rarely 3—4-celled ; style filiform, glabrous, exserted or included, 
branches as many as the cells of the ovary; ovules solitary, ere? 
oblong, more or less compressed and wedge-shaped, anatropous. Fruit 
