Heimia.'] Lxx. RUBiACE^; (hiern). 81 



longer than the tube, subfoh'aceons. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 slender silky outside ; throat densely bearded ; limb spreading, un- 

 equally 5-6-lobed, large, imbricated in aestivation. Stamens 5-6, in- 

 serted on the throat of the corolla, included ; anthers linear ; filaments 

 short. Disk small, tumid. Ovary 2-celled ; style rather slender; 

 branches 2, shortly linear ; cells many-ovuled. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 

 many-seeded. Seeds small, roundly angular ; testa pale, crustaceous, 

 foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo clavate. — An endemic genus, con- 

 sisting of erect or decumbent shrubs with opposite shortly petiolate 

 leaves, small subulate or larger and ovate stipules, and rather large white 

 flowers, solitary, few, or many together in terminal and lateral cymes. 



Stipules small, subulate, two together. 



Glabrous or puberulous. Flowers solitary or in lax 



cymes i. H. jasminiflora. 



Hirsute-hispid. Flowers in dense cymes 2. H. densiflora. 



Stipules rather large, orate or lanceolate, solitary . . . Z. H. benguelejisis. 



1. K. jasminiflora, DG. Prodr. iv. 390. An erect shrub, 

 6-15 feet high, sometimes subarborescent, glabrous or puberulous. 

 Branches terete, green when young, soon turning brown. Leaves 

 elliptical, more or less acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtuse at the base, 

 shortly petiolate, 1-4 by ^1 J in. or occasionally smaller ; lateral veins 

 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib ; stipules two together, subulate or 

 lanceolate- subulate, ^ in. long or shorter, caducous. Flowers fragrant, 

 several together or solitary in lax terminal cymes ; pedicels rather 

 short or ranging up to 1^ in. Calyx-lobes oval oblong or spathulate, 

 obtuse or acute, attenuate at base, green, ^^ in. long. Corolla-tube 

 appressedly pubescent, |— 1 in. long, grreen ; limb very variable in size, 

 |-2-^ in. diameter, pubescent with yellow hairs, white ; lobes acuminate 

 or obtuse, itiargins usually crisped ; throat bearded with yellow hairs. 

 Berry ^— ^ in. diameter. — Bot. Mag. t. 4207 ; Gardenia crinitn,, Afzel. ! 

 Stirp. Guin. Medic. Sp. Nov. p. 18, n. 5 (1829) ; .'' H. puhesc&iis,'K\otz%ch, 

 Schoenl. Bot. Nachl. Palmas, p. 228 (1857) ; G. pulchella, G. Don in 

 Edinb. Phil. Joum. xi. p. 343 (1824). 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smcathman ! and other collectors, ? Cape Palmas, 

 5c^oe/i/«m ; Fernando Po, Th. Vocjel ! Barter! Mann! Prince's Island, .Barker.' 



Xioxirer Guinea. Loango, Sot/aua: ! 



IVEozamb. Z>istr. ZamLesia, R. Shire, Kirk! Quilimane, Kirk! Bagnmojo, 

 Zanzibar coast, Kvk! Hildehrandt! Moramballa, Kirk! Roruma Eiver, Kirk! 

 Dar Salam, stunted form, Kirk ! 



2. K. densiflora, Hiern. A hirsute-hispid shrub, with tawny 

 or ferruginous hairs. Leaves elliptical, acutely acuminate, rounded or 

 the uppermost narrowed at the base, spaiingly hispid above, more 

 densely hairy beneath, 3-6 by 1-2 in. ; lateral veins 7-10 on each side 

 of the midrib, inconspicuous-, petiole ^-J in.; stipules two together, 

 filiform-subulate, ^-\ in. Flowers about 1-1:J- in. long, sessile, many 

 together, in short dense terminal and lateral cymes. Calyx-lobes oval- 

 spathnlate, |-| in. long. Corolla-tube densely pubescent outside, very 

 densely bearded within with yellow hairs; limb 1^-1 J in. diameter; 

 lobes caudate- acuminate. 



XVEozaml). Bistr. Zanzibar, iTirAr.' 

 VOL. III. 



