FLORA NIGRITIANA. 387 
acute, 2 lin. long, estivatione imbricata. Anthere lineares, 
acute, corollam subzquantes. Ovarium biloculare (rarius 
3-loculare?) placentis peltatis, ovulis in quoque loculo circa 
sex immersis. Fructus pisi magnitudine, calycis limbo co- 
ronatus, 
6. Randia (Genipantha) coriacea, Benth. ; glabra, foliis ovatis 
oblongisve brevissime acuminatis crasso-coriaceis vix venosis, 
floribus axillaribus confertis sessilibus, bracteolis in cupulam 
connatis, calycis limbo cupulato vix dentato.—Grand Bassa, 
Vogel. 
Tota planta glaberrima videtur. Folia breviter petiolata, 3-4- 
pollicaria, basi séepius acuta, penninervia, rete venularum vix 
conspicua, Stipule breves, late, longe setaceo-cuspidate. 
Flores fere R. reticulate et pariter 5-7-mere, sed sessiliores, 
calycis limbo latiore. Ovarium biloculare. Ovula placentis 
immersa, in quoque loculo szpius 4. Fructus ovato-globosus, 
levis, 3 lin. longus. Semina in quoque loculo 1-8, omnino 
Randie. 
This and the preceding species have much the habit and 
flowers of Coffea Arabica and its allies, although the structure 
of the Ovary is so different. 
7. Randia longistyla, DC. Prod. 4. p. 388.—Gardenia longi- 
styla, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4322.—Oxyanthus villosus, G. 
Don. Gard. Dict. 3. p. 494.— Sierra Leone, Don, Whitfield ; 
Senegumbia. 
In the single ovary I examined, the placentz appeared 
Scarcely to cohere in the axis, and I have not seen the fruit. 
Possibly this plant may form the type of a distinet genus. 
There is in Heudelot’s Senegambian collection an unpublished 
Species of Randia (Genipantha) allied to R. reticulata. 
1. Oxyanthus speciosus, DC. Prod. 4. p. 376.—Sierra Leone, 
Don.— Folia coriacea, basi acuta et subzequalia, 
?. Oxyanthus formosus, Hook. fil. (Tas. XL. XLL) ; glaber- 
rimus, foliis amplis oblongis basi obliquis, corymbis multi- 
floris, calycis dentibus brevissimis acutis, corollæ tubo foliis 
vix breviore.—Cape Palmas, Vogel. $ 
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