RUBIACE& (H. F. Wernham) 43 
long; secondary lateral veins about 24 pairs. Stipules 9:7-8:4 cm. 
long, 1:2-2-2 em. wide. Fruiting pedicels about 5 mm.long. Calya- 
tube with ovary 4 mm., lobes nearly 1 em. long. Corolla 1:5 cm., 
lobes barely 1 mm. long. 
Near S. geantha Hiern, but differs in the habit, indumentum, the 
longer calyx-lobes and the four-celled ovary. 
Sabieea Talbotii Wernham sp. nov. Frutex sarmentosus 
ramulis strigosis ; foliis ellipticis supra scabrellis subtus sparsis- 
sime nisi in venis densiuscule strigosis, petiolo strigoso brevi; 
stipulis ovalibus pro genere inter minores; floribus in capitulis 
brevissime pedunculatis confertis; bracteis paucis ovalibus involu- 
crantibus basi connatis ; calycis limbo in laciniis brevibus lineari- 
bus diviso ; corolla extus superne strigosa lobis brevibus angustis ; 
ovario extus densissime cano-sericeo-hirsuto. 
Oban ; n. 2032. 
Leaves 8-9 x 8:5-4 cm.; petiole up to 1 em. Capitula about 
1 cm. in diameter. Calyx-lobes 8 mm. ; corolla 1 cm. long. 
Near S. capitellata Benth., but readily distinguished by the indu- 
mentum of the leaves and bracts, and the tendency to aggregation of 
the capitula at the ends of the flowering shoots. 
AFROHAMELIA Wernham, Hameliearum nov. gen. 
Calycis tubus hemisphaericus ; limbi lobi 5 brevissimi erecti 
persistentes. Corolla subeampanulata, in alabastro oblongo acu- 
minato plerumque costata, basi nec constricto, fauce glaberrima ; 
limbi lobi 5, breves triangulares stricte contorti. Stamina 5, tubo 
corolae basin versus inserta, filamentis brevibus; antherae 
basifixae inclusae, anguste lineari-elongatae, basi bifidae. Discus 
tumidus. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus breviusculus, stigmate 
anguste fusiformi sulcato ; ovula in loculis perplurima, placentis 
septo aflixis inserta. Bacca magna oblonga utrinque angustata 
disco tumido coronata 2-locularis polysperma. Semina minima 
valde rugosa et angulata, testa non sculpta. i 
Arbores vel frutices saepius scandentes ramulis validiusculis. 
Folia opposita petiolata, stipulis interpetiolaribus. Flores in 
eymis abbreviatis paucifloris lateralibus quisque bractea magna 
foliacea stipata dispositi. 
A very distinct genus, the nearest ally being the tropical American 
Hamelia, from which this differs chiefly in the contorted s»stivation 
of the corolla and the large two-chambered oblong fruit; the latter 
recalls many species of Hamelia in the persistent and conspicuous 
disc. The corollas in the two genera are very similar, both in bud 
and in open flower; but the characteristically ventricose base of the 
tube in Hamelia is absent in our genus. The typically secund 
arrangement of the flowers in the American genus does not occur in 
the type of Afrohamelia; and the large foliaceous bract subtending 
each cyme is distinctive. 
