90 Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). [Tarenna. 



somewhat, hairy. Corolla salver-shaped, pabescent outside, glabrous 

 inside; limb |- in. diam. ; lobes rounded. Anthers sublinear, glabrous, 

 inserted at the throat, filaments short. Ovary pubescent, 2 - celled ; 

 ovules 4 together, impressed on the fleshy placentas ; style bilobed. 

 nXozaxnl). 3>istr. At Tette, local name " Goocoo," Peters ! 



3. T. nilotica, Hiern. A shrub, 20 ft. high. Branches dull- 

 reddish, glabrate, terete, somewhat compressed and shortly pubescent 

 towards the extremities. Leaves oval or somewhat obovate, acuminate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, glabrous above, shortly pubes - 

 cent beneath, 3-9 by 1:^-4 in. ; lateral veins about 10 pairs; petiole 

 ^1^ in., shortly pubescent ; stipules broadly ovate, connate at the 

 base, subapiculate, keeled above, ^ in long, caducous. Flowers penta- 

 merous, J in. long when expanded exclusive of the style which is 

 exserted as far, without smell, on very short hirsute pedicels, in dense 

 hemispherical sessile (orsubsessile and pedunculate) corymbs of 2-3 in. 

 diam. Calyx 5-cleft, hirsute, y\ in. long ; teeth ovate. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent within the tliroat ; lobes oval- 

 oblong, \ in. long, glabrous on both sides, spreading. Anthers ^ in. 

 long, acute, exserted ; filaments ^ in. long. Style pubescent below. 

 Ovules about 4 together. 



znie Xiand. Niamniam-land, at Nabambisso and Beddo, Schweinfurth ! 



4. T. conferta, Hiern. A puberulous shrub, 5-15 ft. high. 

 Leaves oval or somewhat obovate, cuspidate-acuminate, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, chartaceous, glossy and glabrescent above, 3-7 by 1-3 in. 

 or sometimes smaller; lateral veins (5-10 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender, narrowly depressed on the upper surface ; margins sub- 

 reflexed ; petioles ranging up to 1 in., shortly and appressedly pubes- 

 cent; stipules deltoid, caudate-apiculate, ^— ^ in., erect. Flowers 

 pentamerous, shortly pedicellate, in dense closely branched terminal 

 cymes, fragrant, about J in. long exclusive of the style which ia 

 exserted as much. Calyx ^ in. long, shortly pubescent, green, acutely 

 cleft. Corolla white or cream-coloured or greenish- white, glabrous out- 

 side pubescent inside ; tube narrowly funnel-shaped ; limb spreading, 

 ^-§ in. diam., glabrous; lobes elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Anthers \ in. long. 

 Style pubescent below. Berry glabrate, \ in. diam. or rather larger, 

 pale green. — Stylocitryne coriferta, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 389. 



Upper Gnlnea. ISiger, by the Nun River, Th. Vogell Barter! Brass, Barter! 

 Fernando Po, Mann! 



A specimen in young fruit from Onitsha, Niger {Barter!), with rather smaller 

 obtuse-based leaves "which do not turn so dark a colour in the dry vState and with less 

 dense cymes, apparently belongs to a new species nearly allied to this one. 



5. T. nitidula, Hiern. A shrub, glabrate except the inflores- 

 sence. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acuminate into a loner narrow acute 

 apex, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, glossy, 3-6 by 1-2 in., or 

 the uppermost smaller ; margins nearly fljit ; lateral veins 6—10 on each 

 side of the midrib; petioles ranging up to ^ in.; stipules deltoid, 

 apiculate,. hairy inside, ^-^ in. long. Flowers pentamerous, \ in. long 



