Siphomeris. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN), 229 
S. foctens, Hiern. A fetid yellowish green climber, shortly 
hairy. Leaves ovate, suddenly acuminate, obtuse or subreniform at the 
base, 14-3 by 1-2 in.; margins (in the dry state) crenulate-undulate ; 
petiole about half as long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 4-4 in. long. 
Flowers 3-4 in. long ; common peduncles ranging up to 3 in., spread- 
ing, the upper ones gradually shorter. Corolla-mouth hispid-bearded. 
Fruit suborbicular-ovate, 4 in. diameter. Fruit 3 in. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. N’Kneza, North of Senna, and by the Shire about the 
cataracts, Kirk! Zambesi-land, Stewart / 
69. ANTHOSPERMUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. p. 140. 
Calyx-tube obovoid ; limb 4-5-toothed, minute except that 1-2 lobes 
are sometimes produced into leaf-like appendages. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, usually tetramerous; lobes revolute, valvate in the bud. 
Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, glabrous; anthers fixed at the 
back of the base, linear-oblong; filaments slender. Disk obsolete. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style with 2 diverging scabrous branches; ovules 
solitary, erect, anatropous. Fruit dry, obovoid, dicoccous. Seeds 
erect ; radicle inferior.—Heath-like undershrubs with usually fasciculate 
rigid leaves, subulate or 4-cuspidate stipules, and dicecious small soli- 
tary axillary flowers. 
_ A genus of moderate size, prevalent at the Cape of Good Hope and occurring also 
in Madagascar, 
Stipules subulate, entire... 1 1 ee ee 
Stipules 4-cuspidate. 
Leaves in interrupted fascicles, 4-3 in. long. Plant 
Leaves in érowded fascicles, $4 in. long. “Plant 6 inches 
‘ves in — . dong. an 
high od fascicles, Bo ins Tongs . a 8, A, asperuloides. 
lla. Ppachyrrhizum, Hiern. Suffruticose, branched from a 
thick woody stock. Branches decumbent or ascending, pale-puberu- 
lous, 6-9 in, long, wiry. Leaves linear, apiculate, subsessile, rather 
rough above, 4-2 in. long, margins revolute, scabrid; stipules small, 
subulate, undivided, adnate at the base to the petiole or leaf-base. 
Flowers small.—aA. hirsutum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 346, non DC. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin Dillon and Petit! Schimper! 
2. A. muricatum, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 782. 
Suffruticose, branched from the woody stock. Branches erect or 
ascending, subterete or obtusely 4-sided, puberulous towards the ex- 
tremities, wiry, 1-14 feet long. © Leaves linear or linear-oval, narrowed 
& subsessile base, apiculate, rather scabrid above, paler beneath, 
~herved, 3-3 in. long, margins revolute ; stipules short, broad, trun- 
tate, 4-cuspidate. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes 1 or 2 produced, leaf- 
® Fruit puberulous.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 345. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Adoa, Schimper ! 
1. A. pachyrrhizum. 
2. A. muricatum. 
