396 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
* Hedyotis sulcata" and “ Hedyotis pilosa” were both with the 
specimens of Bertiera Pomatium, the former, however, had 
evidently been misplaced. 
1. Urophyllum rubens, Benth. ; foliis petiolatis elliptico-oblongis 
vix acuminatis basi acutis coriaceis nitidis ramisque gla- 
berrimis, cymis multifloris petiolos vix æquantibus, calycis 
limbo integerrimo.— Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Frutex orgyalis, ramis teretibus v. vix compressis. Stipule 
foliaceæ, lineari-oblongæ v. obovatæ, 4-6 lin. longæ. Folia 
4-5 poll. longa, 2-2} poll. lata, margine leviter revoluta, 
coriacea, nitidula, penninervia, siccitate rubentia, in m 
utrinque viridia; petiolo semipollieari v. paullo longiore. 
Pedunculi axillares, 3-4 lin. longi, minute puberuli, apice 
cymam ferentes 10-20-floram. Flores fere U. glabri. Calyz 
brevis, limbo cyathiformi truncato edentulo. Corolla H lin. 
longa, extus glabra, tubo brevi, intus ad faucem villosissimo, 
laciniis 5 sestivatione valvatis. Ovarium 4-loculare, disco 
crasso umbilicato' radiatim suleato coronatum. Sfylus 5-sul- 
catus, apice fusiformis acutiusculus subbilobus. Ovule m 
loculis numerosa, placentis axilibus vix carnosis affixa. 
There is no doubt that this plant is congener with Uro- 
phyllum, Wall, (1824), which includes 4zanthes, Blum. 
(1825), and in many respects allied to U. glabrum, although the 
ovary is only four-celled in the flowers I have examined, and the 
style entire, but apparently divisible into two lobes. The 
number of cells varies in some of the Eastern species from four 
to five, in others I find, as in this species, 4 cells with a two 
lobed style, and sometimes two of the dissepiments have aP- 
peared to me to be not quite complete. The external furrows, 
in this, as in other thickened styles, depend, not on the number 
of its divisions, but upon the pressure of the external organs" 
the stamens or the edges of the petals, with which they 
generally agree in number. The genus extends over the whole 
of the East, from Madagascar to the Philippine Islands, and 
is apparently numerous in species; it corresponds among mul- 
tiovulate Rubiacee to Lasianthus and Vangueria among the 
uniovulate genera. à 
