Gardenia.'] Lxx. rubiace;e (hiern). 103 



margins ratlier nndulate, lateral veins about 8-10 pairs ; stipules 

 ovate, rather acute or acuminate, ^-^ in. long, clasping. Flowers 

 solitary, fragrant, subsessile, lateral, glabrescent, 3-B^ in. long. Calyx- 

 limb elongated, tube narrowly obconical ; lobes Q-7 , spathulate, folia- 

 ceous, ^1 in. long, glabrous. Corolla salver- shaped, white, glabrous ; 

 tube slender, exceeding the calyx ; limb 3 in. diameter, 6-7-partite ; 

 lobes oval-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, l^-lf in- long, reflexed. 

 Anthers equalling the corolla-tube. Stigma just exserted, 4-lobed. 

 Ovary narrowly turbinate. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Whitfield. 



6. G. Voffelii, Booh. f. in Booh. Ic. t. 782-3. A glabrous 

 unarmed shrub, 8-15 ft. high. Branches not verticillate. Leaves as 

 well as the branches opposite, not ternate, oval or obovate-oblorg, 

 cuspidate or acuminate, obliquely narrowed or rounded or subauriculate 

 at the base, chartaceous, 3-10 by 1-3^ in. long, paler beneath ; lateral 

 veins about 8-10 pairs; petiole short or ranging up to 1 in. ; stipules 

 connate or contiguous at base, ovate, clasping, about ^ in. long. 

 Flowers solitary, terminal, very shortly pedunculate, Avhite, fragrant, 

 about 6 in. long ; peduncle girt by the uppermost stipules. Calyx- 

 limb narrowly oblong, terete, persistent, 1 in. long, shortly and some- 

 times unequally laciniate ; teeth erect, acute. Corolla-tube slender ; 

 limb spreading ; lobes 5, linear-oblong, obtuse, about 2 in. long, dex- 

 trorsely contorted in bud (as seen from inside). Anthers included. 

 Fruit elongate-fusiform, 2^3-4 in. long, -^-l^ in. thick, greenish. 

 Placentas 3.— Hook. Niger Fl. p. 381, t. 38-9 (1849). 



XTpper Guinea. Niger, Aboh, Th. Vogcl! Barter! 



ITile Iiand. Niamniam-land, Sihweinfurth .' Djur-Iand, Schweinfurth in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1871, p. 329 (used as a paint for the body). 

 liower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 



7. G*. IMCang'anjee, Biern. A handsome shrub, glabrescent ex- 

 cept the flowers. Branches opposite. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, 

 nan-owed at the base, firmly chartaceous, 3-4^ by 1-2 in., margins 

 subrevolute ; petiole ^— ^ in. ; stipules deltoid, short. Flowers solitary, 

 2-3 in. long, on very short bracteate peduncles constituting abbreviated 

 lateral branches ; bracts imbricated, deltoid, short, like the stipules. 

 Calyx oblong, about ^ in. lono ; limb \ in., 5-toothed at the UTpex, 

 glabrute outside, hairy inside ; teeth short, broad, apiculate. Corolla 

 shortly hairy on both sides, funnel-cam panulate ; narrow part of the 

 tube exceeding the calyx, limb 1^-2 in. diameter ; lobes oval, rather 

 obtuse, about | in. long, contorted dextrorsely in the bud (as seen from 

 inside). Anthers and style included. Placenta solitary. 



Mozaiub. Bistr. Zambesi-land, Manganja W\\\s, Mellcr ! Tshiradzura Moun- 

 tain, alt. 4000 ft., Kirk ! 



8. G. Annae. P. Wright in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. xxiv. p. 575, 

 t. 28 (1869) ; vu. . »IorambaU8B, Biern. Glabrescent. Branches 

 rather slender, not verticillate. Leaves elliptical, mostly acuminate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, rather paler beneath, firmly chartaceous. 



