Pavetta.} RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 19 
XI. PAVETTA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube ovate ; limb 4-toothed or cleft. Corolla salver-shaped, with 
a long slender tube, and a 4-parted spreading limb. Anthers 4, sessile 
in the throat. Style much exserted beyond the tube of the corolla, 
stigma clavate, entire or nearly so. Berry drupaceous, 2-celled, crowned 
with the limb of the calyx. DC. 1. ¢. 4, p. 485. 
Shrubs or small trees, with opposite leaves and corymbs of white or yellow flowers. — 
Pavetta is the vernacular name of P. indica in Malabar. 
(1) Calyx-teeth setaceous, 2-4 times longer than the tube. 
Leaves ebovate, almost sessile, glabrous pe Sooper a ee A 
Leaves elliptic, petiolate, pubescent... ... ... ...  ... (2) Cooperi. 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate, glabrous, hairy on the midrib 
beneath; panicle pubescent ... ...  ... 0... -. «. (5) Gerrardi. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tomentose beneath ; panicle 
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Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, petiolate, glabrous ..._... (3) Natalensis. 
(2) Calyx-teeth as long as the tube. 
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Leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the base ... ... (9) Zeyheri. 
(3) Calyx-teeth minute, shorter than the tube. 
Leaves obovate, limb of calyx with minute, acute teeth (7) assimilis. 
Leaves lanceolate-acute ; limb of calyx repando-dentate (8) edentula. 
Leaves lanceolate-attenuate ; teeth of calyx subobtuse, 
half aslong as the tube... ... «1... ase wee «ee (36) lanceolata. 
1. P. Caffra (Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 146); branches terete, as well as the 
leaves glabrous; leaves obovate, almost sessile ; stipules broad, cuspidate ; 
corymbs dense-flowered ; teeth of calyx setaceous, twice longer than the 
tube. E.Z.! 2302. P. corymbosa, Houtt. Nat. Hist. t. 10; [xora caffra, 
Potr. suppl. 3, p. 209. 
Van. 8. pubescens; branches, leayes, and flowers shortly pubescent. 
Has. In woods, Dists. of Uitenhage, Albany, Caffraria and Port Natal, Thunb. 
EL. § Z. Drege, Zeyh. 2711. Dec.—Jan. (Herb. Thunb., Sd., D.) 
Shrub 3-6 feet high, with whitish branches. Leaves with slightly recurved mar- 
gins, the lateral nerves often not conspicuous, quite glabrous, or in Var. 8. pubescent, 
13-2 inches long, about 1 inch broad, attenuated at the base, sometimes in a short 
petiole. ‘Teeth of calyx 2 lines, tube of corolla 6 lines long. Fruit black, shining, 
as large as a pea crowned with the calyx, 
2. P. Cooperi (Harv. & Sond.) ; branches terete, very shortly pubes- 
cent; leaves petiolate, elliptic, acute at both ends, hairy-scabrous above, 
softly pubescent and strongly nerved beneath ; stipules broad, euspidate ; 
corymbs capitate; calyx-teeth twice as long as the tube, setaceous. 
Has. Natal, 7. Cooper, 1175; Gerr. ¢§ M‘K. 1349. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A large shrub. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 1-14 inch broad, with very prominent 
middle and divergent lateral nerves. Petioles 3-6 lines long. Corymb globose, a, 
cles and pedicels very short, pubescent as well as the 2 lines long calyx-teeth. y 
pilose, or nearly glabrous, white; length of the tube and size of the fruit as in 
P. Cagfra, from which this species, at first sight, differs by the elliptical, nerved leaves. 
8. P. Natalensis (Sond.); quite glabrous ; young branches com- 
pressed ; leaves on longish petioles, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at 
the base, shining ; stipules euspidate-acuminate ; corymb loose, pe- 
duncle naked at the base, pedicels 1-flowered ; teeth of calyx t 
times as long as the tube, setaccous, ae 
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