82 Lxx. rubiacea: (hiern). IHelnsia. 



3. K. bengruelensls, Welw. ex Bentli. et Hool\ f. Gfn. PI. ii. 

 p. 77. A dwarf evergreen shrub, half a foot high ; radical branches 

 several, woody, decumbent or prostrate-ascending, rigid, gflabrate 

 below, shortly pubescent and leafy towards the tip. Leaves narrowly 

 elliptical, obtusely pointed at the apex, attenuate at the shortly petiolate 

 base, thinly coriaceous, rigid, glabrate or softly puberulous above, 

 glabrescent or shortly pubescent along the veins or puberulous beneath, 

 1-1| by ^-^ in. ; lateral veins about 5 pairs, not conspicuous, margins 

 revolute ; stipules solitary, ovate or lanceolate, undivided, persistent, 

 keeled, puberulous or glabrate, -|— f in. long, about double the length 

 of the petiole. Flowers 1^1^ in. long (when open), terminal, solitary 

 or two together, sessile, fragrant. Calyx |-| in. long ; tube turbinate, 

 shortly and closely hairy ; lobes 5, narrowly oval-oblong, -I— | in. long, 

 foliaceous. Corolla white ; tube 1-1:J^ in. long, shortly and appressedly 

 hairy outside ; throat hairy; lobes 5-6, imbricated, oval, ^-1 in. long, 

 glabrous inside, puberulous outside. Anthers included, |— | in. long, 

 shortly apictilate, base obtuse. Style pubescent, equalling the corolla- 

 tube ; branches 2, obtuse. 



JmO-wct Guinea. Benguela, sporadic in stony sandy thickets between Mumpulla 

 and Humpata, in flower, November 1859, Welmtsck! 



23. BERTIERA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1'7. 

 Calyx-tube short, campanulate in flower, subglobose in fruit ; limb 

 produced above the ovary, cup-shaped, usually broader than the 

 inferior part in flower, narrower in fruit, 5-toothed (deeply 5-lobed in 

 B. hreviflura)^ persistent. Corolla tubular, much exceeding the calyx 

 (campanulate and double the length of the calyx in B. brevijiora) ; 

 limb rather elongated (except B. brevijiora), 5-4-cleft ; lobes usually 

 acuminate or apiculate, dextrorsely contorted in 88stivation (as seen 

 inside) or in B. brevijiora sometimes ibabricated. Anthers 5-4, usually 

 linear, sagittate or bi-lobed at the base, basifixed, included ; filaments 

 inserted usually at the hairy throat of the corolla (except B. laxa)^ 

 very short. Disk cup-shaped cushion-shaped or annular. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style more or less club-shaped, glabrous ; branches 2, flat- 

 tened, appressed ; ovules numerous, inserted on the tumid placentas. 

 Fruit indehiscent, usually globose, pisiform, coriaceous, 2-celled, 

 usually marked with about 10 slender ribs from the apex downwards. 

 Seeds numerous, angular. — Shrubs with opposite shortly petiolate thin 

 scarcely coriaceous leaves, persistent stipules usually sheathing at the 

 base, and flowers of moderate size, rarely very small, sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate, in spicate thyi-soid panicled or scorpioid terminal cymes. 



A genus of several species inhabiting also the Mascarene Islands and Tropical 

 America. 



Cymes spicate or thyreoid or oblong. Corolla-tube cylin- 

 drical, much exceeding the calyx. Calyx-teeth small. 

 Branches of the oblong cyme obsolete or short. 

 Bracteoles small, falling short of the fruit. 

 Leaves more or less narrowed at the base. 

 Fruit somewhat hairy. 



Leaves sub-acumiuate, distinctly but shortly 



petiolate \. B. athiopica. 



