74- Lxx. RUBiACE^: (hiern). [Vrophylliim. 



slightly exceed the petiole. Calyx-limb hemispherical, with short teeth, 

 persistent, about ^^ in. diameter in flower. Corolla much exceeding 

 the calyx ; throat bearded ; lanceolate. Style pnberulous. Ovary 

 imperfectly 4celled, at one end only 2-celled. Berry ^ in. diameter. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



Very near the East Indian spscies II. farvijiorum, Br., but differs by the smaller 

 stipules, fewer flowers, &c. 



6. IT. paucinerve, Hiern. A glabrous shrub, 10-15 feet high. 

 Shoots terete, slender. Leaves narrowly elliptical, much acuminate, 

 attenuate at the base, submembranous, 2^-4 l)y ^-1^ in. ; lateral veins 

 7-8 on each side of the midrib ; petiole ^-| in. long ; stipules subulate, 

 1 in. long; internodes about :J— J of the length of leaves. Flowers 

 small, on short slender glabrous pedicels in abbreviated axillary cymes. 

 Calyx green; teeth lanceolate or ovate. Corolla red. Fruit about 

 ^ in. diameter. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 4000 feet, Mann ! 



7. JS, xnicraxitlium, Hiern. A puberulous shrub, 8 feet high. 

 Branchlets divaricate straight terete slender inconspicuously strigose. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptical, acuminate, mucronate, obtuse at the base, 

 glossy and glabrous above except midrib, puberulous on the veins 

 beneath, submembranous, spreading, 1-3;^ by ^-liV i^- 5 lateral veins 

 8-12 on each side of the midrib, slender ; petiole ya^R ^^* 5 stipules 

 needle-shaped, erect, about \ in. long; internodes about ^ of the 

 length of the leaves. Flowers very small, subsessile, several together, 

 in dense axillary abbreviated cymes. Calyx-teeth subulate-filiform, 

 incurved over the apex of the fruit. Fruit glabrous, -^j^ in. diameter, 

 4-celled. 



upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. Lat., Mann! 



8. V. viridifloruxn, Schweinf. in Herb. An erect puberulous yel- 

 lowish green shrub, 20 feet high. Branchlets obtusely quadrangular. 

 Leaves oval-oblong, subacuminate, obtusely wedge-shaped at the base, 

 subcoriaceous, ranging up to 5^ by 2^ in. or more ; petiole to ^ in. ; 

 lateral veinsl5-20on each side of midrib, depressed on the upper surface ; 

 stipules ovate, f-f in. Flowers ^-^ in. long, on very short pedicels, 

 several together in dense pedunculate corymbs forming branched quasi- 

 terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Calyx short; limb 5— 6-toothed. 

 Corolla 4-6-lobed, greenish, much exceeding the calyx. Stamens 

 enclosed in the tomentum of the throat of the corolla ; connective 

 2-dentate ; filaments very short. Style equalling the corolla, pubes- 

 cent at the middle. Stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Ovary ^-celled ; ovules 

 several together. 



ITortli Central. Monbuttu-land, near Munsa, Schweinfurth ! 



18. SABICEA, Aubl.; Beuth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 72. 



Calyx- tn be campanulate in flower, globular in fruit ; limb 3-6- 

 nsually 5-partite or rarely 5-cleft and then not wider than the inferior 



