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PyiaTe 1126. 
AULACOCALYX JASMINIFLORA, Hook. /. 
Rusiaceas, Tribe ALBERTEZX. 
Aulacocalyx, Hook. f. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii., 109. 
Has.—Western ars Africa; Mount John River, Kongui, Lat. 1° 
N,, G. Mann., Sept., 1 
Frutex gece ramosus, ramis teretibus, ramulis et inflorescentia seri- 
ceis. _ Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, 3-4 poll. longa, elliptica v. elliptico- 
lanceolata, caudato-aea minata, basi in petiolum vix } poll. longum angustata, 
vix coriacea, utrinque costa puberula excepta glaberrima, nervis paucis tenui- 
bus obliquis, ove transversis crebris parallelis tenuissimis. Stipule in- 
trapetiolares, subulato-lanceolate, rigide, alton deciduz. Flores in pedun- 
culos breves axillares fasciculati, sessiles, bracteati; bracteis beato-subulatis, 
ycis tubum zequantibus. Calya 4—pollicaris, i Abdo tubus brevis, obo- 
“ua. profunde 5-sulcatus ; limbus tubulosus, extus et intus sericeus, 5- 
fidus, laciniis elongatis subulato-lanceolatis erectis rigidis. Corolla infun- 
aris, extus sericea, tubo pollicari gracili intus basin versus pubescente, 
fauce glabra; limbi L-poll. diametro lobi 5, patentes, lineari-oblongi, suba- 
cuti, stricte contorti, extus sericei. Stamina &, fauci corolle inserta ; anther 
sessiles, dorso affix, anguste lineari-elongate, recurve, apiculate, Texsertee. 
Discus depressus. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus gracilis, exsertus, supra me- 
dium incrassatus, ramis 2 brevibus v. elongatis recurvis ; ovula in loculis so- 
litaria, il infra apicem affixa, pendula, raphe ut videtur ventrali. Fructus 
ignotus 
Aulacocalyx belongs to a small group of Rubiacee, distinguished by the 
contorted corolla and 2-celled ovary with solitary pen rate ovules, 
having a superior micropyle, all of which hitherto discovered are tropical 
cover in living one-ovuled Rubiacea, and much more so in dried specimens 
hem. d 
resembles Cremaspora in too many points to be removed far from that genus 
The fruit is unfortunately pore ti 3 D. Ho rea 
Fig. 1. Calyx, style, and bracteoles; 2. Vertical section of calyx and ovary; 3. 
Corolla-lobe and stamens :—ad/ magnified. 
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