Vangueria. | RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 13 
acute ; stipules with 1 or 2 bifid bristles; flowers axillary, racemose, 
pedicels geminate, in fruit deflexed, 4-5 times longer than the shortly 
toothed calyx ; corolla funnel-shaped, hairy inside, lobes acute ; fruit 
ovato-globose, smooth. Pentodon decumbens, Hochst. l. c. p. 67. 
Has. Natal, Drege, 4887; Krauss, 332, J. Sanderson ; Guienzius, 471; Ger. ¢ 
M‘K. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stem 1 or 2 feet long. Leaves 14-2 inches long, } inch broad, acute at both ends. 
Racemes simple, 5—10-flowered, or compound 12-16-flowered, on a peduncle as long 
or longer than the leaf. Pedicels with a minute bract. Calyx 1 line long, the teeth 
equalling the tube. Corolla 4 lines long, white ? limb ovate. Capsule truncate, didy- 
mous, crowned by very short calyx teeth. 
Doubtful species. 
H. tenella (Hochst. 1. c. p. 68); glabrous, stem delicate, branched ; 
leaves spathulate, suborbicular; stipules with many bristles; peduncles 
axillary and terminal, 2-3-flowered ; tube of the corolla nearly twice 
longer than the 4-cleft calyx, lobes ovate-elliptic, obtuse ; capsule ovate, 
crowned with the triangular-ovate, recurved, spreading calyx-lobes, 
Has. Table Mountains, near Port Natal. Dec. Dr. Krauss. 
TRIBE IIJ._GUETTARDACEAE (Gen. VII.) 
VII. VANGUERIA, Comm. 
Calyz-tube short, obovate or hemispherical ; limb spreading, 5, rarely 
4-toothed or parted. Corolla campanulate, 5, rarely 4-cleft, hairy 
inside, lobes lanceolate, acute, reflexed. Stamens 5, or 4, with very short 
filaments, and scarcely exserted, oblong acute anthers. Stigma capitate, 
cylindrical, thick, or truncate at both ends, obtuse or toothed. Drupe 
pomiform, when ripe not crowned with the calyx lobes, but marked by 
a sinuated areola atthe summit, containing 5, or by abortion 4-2 bony, 
1-seeded nuts, which are obtuse at the base and acute at the apex. 
Seed aftixed to the middle of the inner angle of the cell, oblong. Albu- 
men fleshy. Embryo large, inverted. DC. 1. c¢. 4, p. 454. Endl. gen. 
n. 3191. Pachystigma, Hochst. Regenst. bot. Zeit, 1842, p.234. Lagynias, 
E. Mey. in herb. Drege. : 
Shrubs or small trees with ovate or oblong leaves, acute or lanceolate stipules, and 
cymose or somewhat panicled white or reddish flowers. Name Voa 
Vanguer, the Madagascar name of V. edulis. 
Calyx 5-toothed, teeth about as long as the tube. 
Leaves reticulated-veined ; stigma obtuse ... ... ... ... (1) infausta, 
Leaves not retic.-veined ; stigma 4-5-toothed ... ... ... (2) parviflora. 
Calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes 2-4 times longer than the tube. 
T pave todenime = coe. “eee es as one. ee ves | sew. (3) SRROPOORLE, 
Leaves glabrous. 
Corolla glabrous. 
Leaves obovate or obovate-lanceolate ; cymesfew-flowered (4) venosa. 
Leaves suborbicular or broad ovate; peduncle 3-flowered (6) latifolia. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate-acuminate ; flowers cymose ... (7) Zeyheri. 
COMMMNN IONINE RATES: 256s. oie se tes sk steve ee (5) lnsiantha, 
1, V. infausta (Burch. Trav. IT. p. 258 et 259, ¢. icon.) ; leaves shortly 
petiolate, ovate or suborbicular, acute or subacuminate, tomentose, netted- 
veined ; cymes axillary, panicled ; calyx-teeth tomentose, bluntish, 4 
