96 Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). [Bandi'a. 



near the apex, acute, reflexed, minutely ciliolate ; tube shaggy inside. 

 StxLoiens exserted. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W C. Thomson! "apparently a parasite. 

 Flowers herbaceous, -vvith a touch of red, March." 



5. R. pallens, Hiern. A pallid tree, 40 feet high, puberulous 

 towards the extremities. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acuminate, wedge- 

 shaped at the very shortly petiolate base, chartaceous, 3-6 by 1^-2;^ in. ; 

 lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; stipules deltoid, apiculate, puberulous, 

 deciduous, ^ in. long. Flowers | in. long (in full bud), oblong, on 

 short pedicels, in shortly pedunculate corymbose cymes of |-1J in. 

 Calyx campanulate-oblong, ^ in. long, puberulous, subtruncate, with 5 

 minute teeth. Corolla felted outside ; tube rather exceeding the calyx ;' 

 lobes obtuse, oblong. Fruit 2-celled, globose, puberulous, (immature ?) 

 J in. diam., crowded by the calyx-limb. 



Upper Guinea. St. Thomas, 2000 ft. alt., Mann ! 



6. IBL, g'ambica, Hier7i. Minutely puberulous towards the extre- 

 mities, glabrescent below, not spinous. Leaves elliptical, obtusely 

 narrowed at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, shortly 

 petiolate or subsessile, not pallid, 2^-4J by 1^2^ in. ; lateral veins 



about 7-8 pairs ; stipules apparently short Flowers ^-^ in. 



lotig, on rather shorter pedicels, glabrous, pentaraerous, several together 

 in opposite subterminal pedunculate corymbs of about 2 in. diam. ; 

 common peduncle about 2 in. long ; bracteoles very short. Calyx ^ in. 

 long ; limb half-cleft ; lobes rounded, foliaceous, imbricated. Corolla 

 •J-cleft, lobes rounded, dextrorsely contorted in the bud (as seen 

 inside) ; throat glabrous. Anthers sessile, inserted by the middle of 

 the back on the corolla- tube. Ovary 2-celled ; placentas 2 ; ovules 

 numerous. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of the Gambia River, Whitfield ! 



7. Tit caudata, Anient. A trlchotomously branched shrub, 15 feet 

 high. Branches terete rather slender, pubescent when young with 

 a.scending hairs. Leaves obovate-elliptical, caudate- acuminate, ob- 

 lique rounded or on one side subauriculate at the base, glabrous except 

 the veins beneath, toughly membranous, very shortly petiolate, 4-5 by 

 1^2^ in., sometimes three together; lateral veins about 8-11 pair ; 

 stipules ovate, caudate-acuminate, -^-^ in. long. Flowers pentamerous ?, 

 solitary, terminating short branches in the forks of longer ones, erect, 

 2-2 J in. long; peduncles very short, bracteate at base. Calyx scarcely 

 \ in. long, oblong, pubescent, with tawny appressed hairs ; teeth 5 ?, 

 linear-subulate, ^i in. long, erect. Corolla white ; tube slender, ap- 

 pressedly pubescent ; limb puberulous inside, deeply lobed ; lobes 4 ?, 

 lanceolate, f-f in. long, acute, dextrorsely contorted in aestivation. 

 Anthers included. 



Upper Guinea. 1° N. lat. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! A single specimen with 

 one flower not available for dissection. 



8. R. maculata, DO. Prodr. iv. p. 388. A much-branched shrub. 

 10-15 feet high, nearly glabrate. Branches sometimes three together. 



