240 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Spermacoce. 
4-3, subulate, equal, as long as the ovary, shorter than the fruit, not 
quite glabrous. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx-teeth ; lobes 2-3. 
Capsule 3 in. long, puberulous towards the apex.—Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Atthiop. p. 139. 
Wile Land. Cordofan, Kotschy /in sandy places; Abyssinia, Ehrenberg. 
17. S. globosa, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p.73, non Pohl. A 
small glabrous erect much branched under-shrub, 2-8 feet high. Branch- 
lets 4-sided, often with abbreviated shoots in the axils. Leaves oblanceo- 
late or narrowly elliptical, obtuse or somewhat pointed, attenuate at the 
base, subsessile or quasi-petiolate, 3-21 in., lateral veins inconspicuous; 
stipules truncate, short, 3-7-setose, setee about as long as the connate 
portion. Flowers small, white, capitate, subsessile, numerous, Im 
terminal and subterminal globose sessile clusters of }-4 in. diameter, 
based by the reflexed or obsolete pair of uppermost leaves. Calyx 
glabrous or nearly so; teeth 2, glabrous, clavate, not longer than the 
ovary, the two other teeth minute ; tube minutely ciliate. Corolla-tube 
very short. Anthers oval-oblong, shortly exserted. Style glabrous, 
bifid at the tip; lobes arching.— Bigelovia verticillata, Spr. in Sieber, 
Pl. Seneg. exsice. n.10. Borreria Kohautiana, Cham. et Schlecht. in 
Linnea iii. p. 311 (1828); DC. Prodr. iv. p. 541. Spermacoce vert- 
cillata, Linn. Sp. Pl., edit. i. p. 102, part. Spermacoce verticillis glo- 
bosis, Dill. Hort. Eltham. p. 369, t. 277, f. 358 (1732). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Th. Vogel!; Cape Coast, Brass ; 
Senegambia, Boivin! Bidjem! Dollinger! Sieber! Brunner! ; Grand Bassa, Th. 
Vogel ! Gambia, fide Dillenius l.c. Volta, Thonning. 
Mozamb. Distr. East Coast of Africa, Forbes! 
Occurs also in the Cape de Verde Islands, &c. 
The following species remain unknown to me. 
S. phyllocephala, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 553. 
North Central? Kouma and Walo, Perrottet et Leprieur. . 
tUpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! (a specimen in fruit 1 
a to the neighbourhood of this species by Bentham in Hoo 
p. 423. 
S. galeopsidis, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 554. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, at Dagana, in sandy places. 
S. chetocephala, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 554. 
North Central. At Bakel, in sandy places, Leprieur. . 6 
Wile Land. Ronga, White Nile, Binder (8. brevifolia, Kotschy Pl. Binder. P- ). 
This species should be compared with 8. Kotschyana. 
n Hb. Mus. 
k. Niger FI. 
73, HYPODEMATIUM, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 348 (1847): 
Characters of Spermacoce, in which it is included by Bentham vi 
Hooker, Gen. Pl. ii. p. 145, except that the fruit bursts round te 
base and splits up from the base into 2 cocci, remaining entire at the 
apex. 
A monotypic genus, peculiar to this Flora. 
1. H. spherostigma, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 348. Ab 
or subsimple erect or decumbent annual weed, ranging up to 
high ; branches sparingly hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaves lan 
ranched 
91 feet 
ceolate 
