78 Lxx. RUBIACE.E (hiern). ISahlcea. 



merons, shortly pedicellate, many together in lateral abbreviated 

 puberulons cymes, j-1 in. diam. Calyx-Limb shortly tnbular with 

 linear or lanceolate lobes ^-^ in. long. Corolla hairy in the bad. 

 Ovary 2-celled. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon River, Mami ! St. Thomas Island, Mann ! 



9. S. ? ffeantba, Hiern. A nearly glabrons (erect) sbrnb, 10 ft. 

 high. Leaves oval, acuminate at both ends, gldssy above, ranging 

 up to 12 by 5^ in. ; petiole to li in. ; lateral veins 20-27 on each 

 side of the midrib, rather slender ; stipnles ovate, acute, 1-1^ in. 

 long. Flowers shortly pedicellate, pentamerons, about 1 in. long, 

 slender, many together in subglobose lateral puberulons cymes, 

 1-2 in. diam., near the ground. Calyx-limb shortly tubular, with 

 linear-filiform lobes about ^ in. long. Corolla narrowly tubular, 

 glabrous ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Ovary 2-celled ; style bilamellate. 



TTpper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. lat., Mann ! 



19 TEMNOPTERYX, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 



PI. ii. 72. 



Calyx-tube campanulate in flower, globose in fruit ; limb 5-partite, 

 segments more or less unequal, at first subulate, some or all more 

 or less early produced into dilated foliaceous petiolate lobes, per- 

 sistent. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, scarcely membranous, silky on 

 both sides ; throat rigidly bearded ; limb 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, valvate 

 in aestivation. Stamens 5, inserted about the middle of the corolla ; 

 anthers linear ; filaments short. Disk annular, inconspicuous. Ovary 

 5-celled ; style cleft into 5 linear lobes ; ovules very numerous, in- 

 serted on thick placentas. Fruit subglobose, truncate or depressed 

 at the apex, coriaceous, with 5 longitudinal furrows, 5-celled ; dis- 

 sepiments thin ; seeds numerous.— A monotypic genus, with opposite 

 petiolate leaves, multifid ample interpetiolar stipules, and rather large 

 flowers clustered in dense axillary cymes, which are each sheathed by 

 a basal bract. 



1. T. serlcea, Booh. f. in Benth. et HooJc. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 72. A 

 sturdy herb, 2-3 ft. high, covered on the short lower side of leaves (at 

 least on the veins) and flowers with rufous shining silky hairs. 

 Leaves oblanceolate, 5-14 by 2-3^ in., caudate-acuminate, attenuate 

 at the base ; petiole J-2 in. ; lateral veins about 10-16 pairs ; stipules 

 about 1 in. long, lobes subulate. Flowers about |-1 in. long, many 

 together, sessile or subsessile, in a pedunculate head, enclosed at the 

 base by a membranous coloured ? campanulate plurifid bract of 

 •1-f in. ; bracteoles lanceolate or subulate. Lamina of the enlarged 

 calyx-lobes cuspidate varying from orbicular to oval or oblong, ranging 

 np to 1 in. Fruit ^— | in. diam. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. lat., Mann! 



