Tas. 8838. 
PAVETTA ABYSSINICA. 
East Tropical Africa. 
Rupraceak. Tribe Ixorear. 
Pavetta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 114. 
Pavetta abyssinica, Hresen. in Mus. Senck. vol. ii. p. 166 (1837); A. Rich. 
Fl, Abyss. vol. i. p. 352 (1847); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. 
p. 178 (1877); species foliis nervis lateralibus numerosis infra pilosis 
inflorescentiis subsessilibus calycis tubo extra glabro stylis longissime 
exsertis distincta. 
Frutexr usque ad 2 m. altus; ramuli pallide cinerei, ad nodos villosi. Folia 
obovato-elliptica, apice obtuse acuminata, basi cuneata, plerumque circiter 
15 cm. longa et 4 cm. lata, sed interdum usque ad 24 em. longa et 10 em. 
lata, margine undulata, tenuiter papyracea, supra primum setulosa, demum 
glabra, infra praesertim secus nervos laxe pilosa ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 
12-14, a costa sub angulo lato abeuntes, utrinque straminei, infra pro- 
minentes; petioli circiter 2 cm. vel usque ad 3°5 em. longi, laxe pilosi; 
stipulae submembranaceae, caducae, 1 cm. longae, longe acuminatae, 
intus dense villosae. Injflorescentia laxiflora, subsessilis, stylis inclusis 
circiter 12 cm. diametro; pedicelli circiter 4 min. longi, glabri. Calycis 
tubus cylindricus, 5 mm. longus, glaber; lobi 4, lineares, 4 mm. longi, 
parce pilosi vel fere glabri. Corolla alba; tubus 2 cm. longus, extra 
glaber, intus breviter pilosus; lobi 4, oblongo-lanceolati, acuti, circiter 
1 cm. longi, 5 mm. lati. Antherae breviter exsertae, virides, 6 mm. longae, 
mucronatae. Stylus 3°5 cm. exsertus, apicem versus breviter et molliter 
pubescens, minute 2-fidus. Fructus niger, nitidus, globosus, circiter 
8 mm. diametro, calyce persistente coronatus.—Pavetta congesta, Br. in 
Salt, Abyss. App. p. lxiii. (1814) ; nomen.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The Rubiaceous genus /avetta is restricted to the 
Eastern hemisphere, five-sixths of the species being 
confined to the tropical regions of south-eastern Asia and 
Africa, the remaining sixth occurring in South Africa. 
Among the members of the South African group of 
species one, ?. caffra, Linn. f., an old and long known 
plant in European collections, has been figured at t. 
3580 of this work. The plant now figured is one of the 
Tropical African species, which is a native of Abyssinia 
and Uganda, where it grows in the warm zone on the 
lower slopes of the mountains. This species was first — 
met with by Mr. Henry Salt during his travels in the 
JaANUARY—Marcu, 1920. 
