RUBIACEÆ (H. F. Wernham) 39 
GAMOPETAL. 
By H. F. Wernuam, B.Sc.; excepting Composite, 
Asclepiadaceze (Loganiacex (in part) ), and Acan- 
thacee, by SPENCER MOORE, F.L.S.; and Convol- 
vulacex, by Dr. A. B. RENDLE, F.R.S. 
RUBIACEE, 
This family is the most numerously represented in the whole 
collection, and some valuable additions—in the way both of rare 
Species already described and of novelties—have been made. 
There are 35 new species, and of these six belong to four new 
genera— Afrohamelia, Dorothea, Diplosporopsis, Globulostylis—the 
two latter including each:two species. Afrohamelia is interesting 
as being nearly related to Hamelia, a genus confined to the tropies 
of the New World; and its morphology is particularly curious. 
The bracts are large and foliaceous, the inflorescences appearing 
to arise from the middle of the stalk, to which the peduncle is 
adnate ; the leaves are almost exactly similar, but much smaller.’ 
Dorothea, a near ally of Randia, is especially interesting for its 
zygomorphic flowers—a rare feature in this family. Sabicea has 
yielded as many as four very distinct new species. Bandia 
Talbotii has large showy flowers 21 decimetres long. Coffea 
Talbotii is a curious new species which I have assigned to this 
genus only after considerable hesitation ; the fruit is a red 
fusiform berry, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb. 
Cremaspora Thomsoni Hiern. Hiern’s description (Fl. Trop. 
Afr. iii. 126) seems to have been based on immature flowers; 
the Talbot specimen (n. 1049) affords excellent material The 
corolla-tube is 7 mm. and the lobes 6 mm. long, and the fruit, 
hitherto unavailable, is 1*5 cm. long. 
Coffea subeordata Hiern. The corolla-lobes and stamens are 
much larger than stated in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 184, but the Talbot 
plant (n. 243) is otherwise identical with the type, and agrees 
with the original description in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. Il. i. 174. 
Cephaélis Mannii Hiern n. 154. The peduncles are several 
feet long, instead of about 1 foot, as known from previous 
specimens. 
