Sahicea.] lxx. rubiacej] (hiern). 75 



portion ; lobes not Hraall, often foliaceous or elongated. Corolla 

 tubular, often narrowly so ; lobes 5 or rarely 4 or 6, lanceolate or 

 ovate, sbott, valvate in osstivation. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat 

 of the corolla or below. Disk annular, fleshy, crenulated. Ovary 

 usually 5-celled, or in doubtful species 2-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; 

 style clavate, usually cleft into 4—5 linear or oblong lobes. Berry 

 usually 4-5-celled, pisiform ; seeds small. — Shrubs usually scandent 

 with opposite petiolate submembranous leaves, interpetiolar stipules, and 

 flowers of moderate size in axillary usually capitate cymes usually 

 in vein crate with bracts of moderate size. 



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

 Ovary 4-5-cellecl. 

 Bracts involucrate. 



Common peduncles long (1-4 in.). 



Calyx-lobes linear-filiform 1. S. ferrvginca. 



Calyx-lobes oval 1. 8. calycina. 



Common peduncles short (not exceeding § in.). 



Calyx-lobes elliptic-lanceolate, ^| in. long. Leaves 



pilose Z. S. pUosa. 



Calyx-lobes linear, ^-f in. long. Leaves sparsely 



pilose 4. *S. Vogclii. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, ^-^ in. 



long. Leavps short^cottony b. 8. capifellata. 



Bracts not involucrate Q. S. venosa. 



Ovary 2-celled. 



Stipules ^ in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters . . . 7, S.? segregata. 

 Stipules 1-1| in. long. Flowers in lateral clusters. 

 More or less pubescent. Calyx-lobes linear or lanceo- 

 late. Flowers clustered on the branches . . . 8. SJ cauUflora. 

 Nearly gbibrous. Calyx-lobes linear-filiform. Flowers 



near the ground 9. S.? gcantha. 



1. S. ferrug-inea, Benth. in Hool: Niger Fl p. 397. A climbing 

 shrub, with terete subferruginous pubescent-tomentose branches and 

 peduncles. Leaves oval, shortly acuminate, rounded, somewhat ex- 

 cavated or obtusely narrowed and more or less unequal at the base, 

 dark and glabrescent (except the puberulous midrib) above, ferrugin- 

 ous and shortly tomentose beneath, 3-6 by 1^-2^ in. ; lateral veins 

 16-20 on each side of the midrib ; petiole ^-1 in. ; stipules ovate, 

 acute, about ^ in. long. Flowers pentamerous, |-j in. long, shortly 

 pedicellate, many together in dense hemispherical pedunculate capitate 

 cymes of 2 in. diameter ; peduncles axillary, 8-4 in. long ; bracts ovate 

 or lanceolate, acute |-1 in. long, involucrate. Calyx tubular, the in- 

 ferior portion short, campanulate, hispid- pubescent ; the free poi-tiou 

 of the tube subglabrous ; lobes linear-filiform, pilose-pubescent, nearly 

 equalling the corolla-tube, acute. Corolla slender, tube subglabrous 

 below, appressedly pubescent above ; teeth lanceolate, short, hairy 

 outside. Anthers linear, inserted below the middle of the corolla. 

 Ovary 4-5-celled. Fruit pisiform. — Cephaelis ferruginea, G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. iii. p. 605. 



Upper Gulisea. Sierra Leone, G. Don ! Bagroo Kiver, Mann .' 



