152 LXVII. RUBIACER. 
Corolla tubular ; limb 4-, rarely 5-lobed, throat villous or gla- 
brous. Stamens a little exserted, or sessile and included. 
Stigma simple or 2-fid. Capsules subglobose, membranous, 
crowned with the distant calycine lobes, 2-celled, dehiscing at 
the summit. Seeds very numerous, minute, on subglobose 
placentas.—F1. Cap. i. p. 8. 
A very large tropical and subtropical genus. The 17 or 18 Cape species 
are chiefly Eastern or from Natal; they are small herbs, with opposite 
leaves, setulose stipules, and either scattered or aggregated small flowers. 
TriBE 3. GUETTARDEX. (Gen. 7-8.) 
7. VANGUERIA, Comm. 
Calyx-tube short, obovate or hemispherical ; limb spreading, 
5- or rarely 4-toothed or parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 5- rarely 
4-cleft, hairy inside, the lobes lanceolate, acute, reflexed. 
Stamens with very short filaments, and scarcely exserted, ob- 
long, acute anthers. Stigma capitate, cylindrical, thick or 
truncate at both ends, obtuse or toothed. Drupe when ripe 
not crowned by the calyx-lobes, but having a sinuated terminal 
areola, containing 5, or by abortion 4-2, bony 1-seeded nuts 
which are obtuse at base, acute at apex.— #7. Oap. iil. p. 18. 
Shrubs or small trees, with ovate or oblong leaves, acute stipules and 
cymose or panicled, axillary, small, white or reddish flowers.—7 Cape spe- 
cies, all Eastern. 
8. ANCYLANTHUS, Desf. 
Calyx-tube adnate, hemispherical; limb 5-parted, the seg- 
ments lanceolate. Corolla tubular, incurved, the tube at base 
within girt by a ring of stiff, reflexed hairs, otherwise nude, 
widening at the throat; limb subequally 5-parted, the two 
upper lobes longer, all erecto-patent, callous-subulate at their 
apices. Anthers 5, sagittate, subsessile in the throat of the co- 
rolla. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules solitary ; style shortly exserted, 
filiform ; stigma cylindrical-mitriform, truncate at base, bluntly 
5-lobed at apex. Fruit P—DC. Prod. iv. p. 468. 
A. rubiginosa, Desf., first found in Angola, has been sent by Mr. Moffatt 
to Dr. Pappe, fromm Masilikatzis country. It is a shrub, with hairy 
branches and twigs; short petioled, elliptical, obtuse leaves, pubescent 
above, more densely so and netted-veined beneath. Peduncles short, 
axillary, about 3-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, over 1 inch long, clothed 
externally with foxy or rust-coloured, spreading hairs. 
TRIBE 4. ALBERTEM. (Gen. 9.) 
9. ALBERTA, E. Mey. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, 10-ribbed ; limb 5-fid, 3 lobes short, 
acute, 2 oblong, obtuse, enlarged in fruit. Corolla elongate, 
