412 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
CREMASPORA, (gen. nov.) 
Char. gen.— Calycis limbus campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla 
hirta, intus ad faucem leviter pilosa; tubus brevis; limbi 
patentis lacinie 5, oblongze, sstivatione imbricata, Stamina 
ad apicem tubi inserta, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongo- - 
linearibus. Stylus hirtellus apice (integer?) acutiusculus. 
Ovarium biloculare, ovulis solitariis ex apice loculi pendulis. 
Bacca ovoidea, levis. Semen abortu (an constanter?) soli- 
tarium, leve, raphe distincto percursum, albumine corneo 
haud excavato, embryone parvo.—Frutewx ? Africana, floribus 
parvis, in capitula axillaria subsessilia confertis, bracteis mM- 
termixtis. 
. Cremaspora Africana, Benth.—Coffea hirsuta, G. Don, Gard. 
Dict. 3. p. 581.—Sierra Leone, Don; also apparently the 
- same species in the Island of Zanzibar, on the S. E. coast of 
Africa, Helsing. and Bojer. : 
Ramuli pubescentes v. hirtelli. Stipule utrinque solitari#, € 
basi dilatata subulatz, deciduæ, 1-3 lin. longe. Folia ovata 
v. oblongo-elliptica, 3-4 poll. longa, breviter acuminata, basi 
rotundata v. acutata, supra glabra, nitidula, subtus presertim 
ad venas hirtella, petiolo brevi hirtello v. pubescente. Flores 
vix petiolos excedunt, uti bractez dense sericeo-villosi. Calyz 
vix 2 lin. longus, dentibus acutis erectis. Corolla calyce 
subduplo longior. Anthere corolla breviores. Bacca 4 lin. 
longa, calycis vestigiis coronata, abortu (in specimine exami- 
nato) unilocularis, monosperma. Semen leve, ad latus W- 
terius raphe tenui percursum. 
Although Don's specimens are very imperfect, they are suffi- 
cient to show great discrepancies from the character of Coffea, 
to which genus he had referred them. The structure of both 
flower and fruit, confirmed by very good Zanzibar flowermg | 
specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium of what appears t° 
be the same species, shows great affinity to Kraussia, also # 
S. African plant, but the form of the fruit, as well as som? 
peculiarities in the calyx and style, and the general habit, have 
induced me to establish it as a distinct genus. It is not im- 
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