72 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiekn). [Urophyllum. 



17. UROPHYLLUM, Wall. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 71. 



Calyx-tube more or less turbinate in flower, globular in fruit ; limb 

 hemispherical, wider than the tu.be, usually truncate ; teeth usually 5, 

 obsolete minute or small. Corolla coriaceous, shortly tubular ; 2-3 

 times the length of the calyx ; lobes usually 5, ovate or lanceolate, 

 valvate in sestivation ; throat shaggy. Stamens usually 5, inserted at 

 or near the throat of the corolla ; filaments usually short ; anthers 

 linear or lanceolate, included. Disk tumid, annular, hairy or glabrous. 

 Ovary 4-5 celled ; style puberulous or glabrous, often clavate ; stigma 

 entire or cleft at the apex ; ovules numerous. Berry pisiform, 4-5- 

 celled ; seeds small, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy. — Shrubs or 

 small trees, with opposite petiolate submembranous or subcoriaceous 

 leaves, interpetiolar stipules and short flowers in axillary cymes. 



A genus of several species occurring also in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 

 Inflorescence wholly axillary. 



Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Flowers ^-^ in. long. 

 Stipules foliaceous, f-1 in. long. Leaves with 20-26 

 lateral veins on each side of the midrib. 



Leaves wedge-shaped at the base 1. U. hirtellum. 



Leaves usually rounded at the base 2. U. ca/licarpoides. 



Stipules ^^ in. long. Leaves with 8-18 lateral veins 

 on each side of the midrib. 

 Leaves obtuse at the base ; lateral veins about 15-18 



pairs . . • 3. ^. insularc. 



Leaves wedge-shaped at the base ; lateral veins about 



8-11 pairs 4. i7. ruhens. 



Stipules ^-i in. lung. Leaves with 7-9 lateral veins on 



each "vXq of the midrib b. TJ. Afzelii. 



Calyx-teeth lanceolate or ovate, not minute. Flowers 



small 6. U. paucinerve. 



Calyx-teeth subulate-filiform, not minute. Flowers very 



small 7- U. micranthum. 



Inflorescence in quasi-terminal and axillary cymes . . . 8. Z7. viridiflorum. 



1. U. hirtellum, Benth. in Hooh. Niger Fl. p. 397. A shrub of 

 15 feet. Shoots puberulous or at the extremities hirsute-pubescent. 

 Leaves elliptical, acutely acuminate, wedge-shaped or attenuate at the 

 base, firmly chartaceous, pubescent or puberulous on the numerous 

 (22-26) veins and midrib, shining above, rather paler beneath ; 4-11 

 by 1^4 in. ; petiole ^-1^. Stipules ovate, obtuse, foliaceous, solitary, 

 undivided, puberulous, f in. long, fugacious. Flowers ^^— |- in. long, 

 glabrous outside, shortly pedicellate, in dense many-flowered puberu- 

 lous axillary cymes scarcely equalling the petioles. Calyx-limb hemi- 

 spherical, truncate, with 5 minute teeth. Corolla twice the length of 

 the calyx, 5-cloft ; throat shaggy ; lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Style 

 hairy ; stigma bifid. Fruit globose, ^ in. diameter, 4-5-celled. 



Upper Guinea. Aboh, Tk. Vogel ! Bagroo River, Mann ! Old Calabar River, 

 Mann ! 



2. IS, callicarpoides, Hieni. A strigose-hispid tree, 30feethigh. 

 Leaves oblong, mucii acuminate, rounded or somewhat excavated 

 rarely somewhat narrowed at the base, submembranous, 8-l<> by 



