Bertiera.'\ lxx. rubiaceje (hiern). 85 



5-toothed, persistent ; teeth ovate, pointed. Corolla acutely pointed 

 in the bud. Disk cup-shaped, equalling the calyx, subtruncate, ob- 

 scurely 5-lobed. Fruit depresso-globose, ^ in. diameter, marked faintly 

 with about 9-10 longitudinal ribs, glabrate. Seeds angular, small. 

 Vpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



7. S. laxa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 394. A puberulous or 

 glabrescent shrub, 12-15 feet high. Leaves oval-oblong, acutely 

 acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 1^8 by |-2^ in. ; lateral 

 veins 6-10 on each side of the midrib, slender ; petiole J- J in. ; 

 stipules very shortly sheathing, |-1 in. long, free portion ovate-lanceo- 

 late. Flowers j in. long, slender, shortly and appressedly hairy, 

 green, sessile or subsessile, in divaricately branched lax terminal 

 pedunculate cymes 3^7 in. long; bracts subulate, recurving; brac- 

 teoles small. Calyx yV i^- ^^^S 5 ^^^^ 5-toothed, persistent at the 

 apex of the fruit ; teeth deltoid, rkther acutely pointed. Corolla-limb 

 elongated, glabrous inside, 5-fid ; lobes acutely acuminate, dextrorsely 

 contorted. Anthers linear-oblong, acute, acutely sagittate at base ; 

 filaments short slender inserted at bottom of corolla-limb. Style 

 somewhat clavate, glabrous ; branches compressed, linear-oblong. 

 Berry ^ in. diameter, feebly ribbed. 



ITpper Guinea. Fernando Po, Tk. Vogel! Mann! Sierra Leone, Snieatkman! 

 in fmit and Afzelius! in flower (small-leaved and apparently subsjandent forms with 

 less acute corolla-buds). 



Var. ? pedicellata. A laxer attenuated form baring lanceolate-oblong leaves, 

 stipules j-^ in. long with lanceolate-acuminate apex, and pedicellate flowers. 



ITpper Guinea. St. Thomas Island, at the summit of the peak, Mann ! 



A specimen fr m Lower Guinea, Congo, collected by Chr. Smith, in young flower, 

 appears to belong to Bertiera laxa, Benth. 



Wendlandia sulcata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 619, from Sierra Leone in woods on 

 the banks of rivers, is unknown to me ; perhaps it may belong to this species. 



8. B. brevifiora, Hiern. A small shrub with appressedly pubes- 

 cent branches. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, rounded or wedge-shaped 

 at the base, glabrescent above, pubescent beneath at least on the veins, 

 2|— 5 by j-2^ in. ; lateral veins about 6 on each side of the midrib ; pe- 

 tiole ^— J in. ; stipules shortly tubular, glabrous inside, ^J in. ; free 

 portion ovate. Flowers about ^ in. long, sessile, pubescent, unilateral 

 on the divaricute branches of the terminal cymes which measure 3-5 in. 

 broad. Bracteoles lanceolate, obtuse, nearly equalling the calyx. Calyx 

 half the length of the flower, larger in fruit ; limb deeply lobed, per- 

 sistent ; lobes lanceolate or oblong, abont equalling the ovary. Corolla 

 campanulate, 5-lobed; lobes ^ the length of the tube, obtuse, dextrorsely 

 contorted or sometimes imbricated in the bud as regarded from inside ; 

 throat hairy. Berry subglobose, ^ in. diam. Seeds angular. 



Vpper Guinea. Niger Expedition, at Eppah, Barter ! Gaboon River, Mann ! 



24. DICTYANDRA, Welw. ex Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. p. 85. 



Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong in flower, subglobose in fruit ; Umb 

 deeply 5-lobed, with a few short erect fleshy setae at base ; lobes equal. 



