58 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [Olclenlandia, 



glabrous, anthers included. Fruit campanulate- globose, | in diam., at 

 length bursting loculicidally at the apex. Seeds angular. — Hedyotis 

 (Kohautia) ahijssinica, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 1902; A. 

 Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 363 ; H. senegalensis, A. Rich Fl. Abyss, i. p. 362, 

 quoad specim. Schimp., excl. syn. 



ITpper Guinea. Senegambia, Bijemf 



Iffile Xiand. Abyssinia, Sckimpcr ! Q. Dillon and Petit! Parkyns ! Pcarcel 



13. O. strumosa, Hiern. Erect annual, J-1^ feet high, branched 

 from the base, slightly scabrous by minute tubercles on the stem, 

 branches, leaves, and calyx. Stem and branches leafy from the base 

 upwards. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowing to a sessile 

 clasping base, the larger ones 13^-2 by |-i in. ; stipules sheathing, 

 truncate or ovate, setose. Flowers tetramerous, slender, ^ in. long, 

 mostly subsessile, 1-2 together, on the subsecund branches of a wide 

 corymbose terminal cyme. Calyx in flower tV~to i^- long ; lobes lan- 

 ceolate, short, acute. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slender, funnel- 

 shaped in the upper part, many times the length of the calyx-limb ; 

 lobes short, obtuse. Anthers included. Fruit subglobose, |- in. diam. or 

 rather more, somewhat didymous, crowned by the subulate calyx- 

 lobes, at length bursting loculicidally at the apex. Seeds angular. — 

 Hedyotis (Kohautia) strumosa, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 

 1867 (1844) ; Kohautia strumosa, Hochst. in Hb. Kotsch. Nubic. n. 46 

 (1841) ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 364. 



Xrile X«and. Senuiia,T, Kotschy ! ; Ahy ssima,, Schimper ! Cordof an, Kotscky / 

 Occurs also in the Cape de Verde Islands. It seems, moreover, to be the same as, 

 or very closely allied to, the East Indian species H. aspera, Heyne. 



14. O. Caffra, EcM. et Zeyh. Enum. Fl. Afr. Austr. Exfratrop. 

 1360. n. 2291 (Jun. 1836). An erect or ascending annual or perennial, 

 somewhat shrubby at base, 6-30 in, high, branched from the base, obso- 

 letely scabrous. Leaves more or less lanceolate, a6ute, with recurving 

 mucro, sessile, rather paler beneath, the margins recurved, the longer 

 ones f-3 by tV~3 i^- 5 stipules truncate, each tipped with about 4-6 

 long (l^-J in.) usually spreading or recurved setsD. Flowers tetra- 

 merous, white pink or bluish, J— J in. long, 3-1 together, on unequal 

 pedicels, in 2-3-chotomous terminal corymbose cymes ; pedicels ranging 

 up to ^ in., or in some forms not so long. Calyx glabrous or pubescent 

 ■Yir~e ^- long ; lobes lanceolate acute longer than the tube. Corolla 

 tubular 2-3 times the length of the calyx ; limb ^— ^ in. diam. ; throat 

 glabrous ; lobes oval-ovate, obtuse. Fruit subglobose, ^ in. diam,, sub- 

 didymous, tipped by the long subulate calyx-teeth. Seeds angular. — 

 Hedyotis Caffra^ Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. p. 726 ; Kohautia setifera^ 

 DC. Prodr. iv. p. 430 ; Hedyotis setifera, Sond. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. iii. 10 ; H. Gerrardij Sond. I.e. ; K. macrophylla^ Klotzsch in 

 Peters Mossamb. p. 297. 



IiO-wer Guinea. Angola, Ambriz, Monteiro! Congo, Chr. Smith! 

 SKozamb. Bistr. Zanzibar coast, Moumfia. Sir B. Frere! HUdehrandt! 

 Shupanga, Moramballa, Kirk ! Cabaceira and Sena, Peters ! Zambesia, Stewart ! 

 Occurs also in the Cape Flora and Natal, and perhaps also in Madagascar, 



