88 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [LeptacHna. 



3. Zi. senegrambioa, Hooh.f. Ic. Pl.suh t. 1092. Nearly glabres- 

 cent, much branched. Branchlets obtusely quadrangular, rigid. Leaves 

 elliptical, obtusely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, rigid, subses- 

 sile, ranging up to 3J by 1-J in. ; margins reflexed ; lateral veins 6-8 

 on each side of midrib ; stipules ovate, caudate-acuminate, nearly 

 flat, erect, ciliolate, ^| in. long, persistent. Flowers 2-3 in. long, 

 subsessile, in small dense cymes ; bracteoles linear-subulate. Calyx- 

 tube pubescent; lobes lanceolate, acute, rigid, obscurely ciliolate, 

 ^— ^ in. long, subfoliaceoua or subglumaceoiis. Corolla-lobes ovate, 

 mucronate, J in. long, shortly and appressedly hairy outside, glabrous 

 inside. Style puberulous above, exserted ; branches slender. 



Vpper Guinea. Sehegambia, Heuddot ! Randia {Geni'pantha), s^. jx.,'Bent\v. 

 in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 387. Criuford's Island (Sierra Leone?), Hb. Afzelius ! (state 

 with subglumaceous calyx-lobes and less exserted style). 



Habit of Hiinsia jasminiflora, DC. 



4. Xi. belnsloldes, Hiern. Branches hispidulous or glabrate, terete. 

 Leaves elliptic-obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, firmly char- 

 taceous, glabrate and glossy above, strigulose on the midrib and on the 

 5-7 pairs of slender lateral veins, 2-2 J by |— f in. ; petiole J in. ; stipules 

 nearly flat, erect, \ in. long or rather more. Flowers 2 in. long, 

 puberulous outside, about 3-4 together, subsessile ; bracteoles ovate, 

 acute, rather small. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate and scarcely -^ in. 

 long in flower, linear and f-J in. long in fruit. Corolla-lobes ovate, 

 J in. long. Anthers 1 in. long. Style hirsute above. Fruit f in. 

 long. Seeds -^V by ^ in. — Oliv. in Joum. Linn. Soc. Lond. xv. p. 91 

 (1876), sine descriptione. 



Soutb Central. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 



26. TARENNA, Gaertn. Fruct. i. p. 139, t. 28, f. 3 (1788). (Wehn-ra, 

 Schreb. (1791); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 86; Gopto- 

 sperma, Hook. f. (part.) in Benth. et Hook, f,, 1. c. quoad flores.) 



Calyx-tube campanulate turbinate or shortly tubular ; limb small, 

 5-6- rarely 4-toothed cleft partite or subtruncate. Corolla salver- or 

 funnel-shaped ; tube long or short ; limb 5-6- rarely 4-partite, spread- 

 ing ; lobes oblong, dextrorsely contorted in aestivation (as seen from 

 iuside). Stamens 5-6, rarely 4, inserted at the mouth of the corolla ; 

 anthers narrowly elliptical or linear, subsessile, attached at the back 

 near the base, glabrous. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary 2-oelled ; style 

 long, usually exserted ; ovules numerous or rarely few, peltately 

 attached to the fleshy placentas. Berry pisiform, 2-celled ; cells usually 

 1- or few-seeded. Seeds not minute, usually rounded in front and 

 angular on the sides with one or more pits. — Shrubs or trees with 

 opposite shortly petiolate leaves, shortly ovate or subtruncate stipules 

 and whitish flowers of moderate size in terminal and subterminal brac- 

 teolate cymes. 



A genus occurring also in Madagascar, Seychelles, Asia and Australia. The flowers 

 are rarely tetramerous in one Indian species according to Wight and Arnott, Prod- 

 romus Fl. Penins. p. 401. 



