106 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [Macrosphijra. 



centas. Berry pyriform- globose ; seeds numerous, compressed, im- 

 mersed in pulp. — A scandent shrub, with terete branches leafy at the 

 extremities, hirsute opposite petiolate deciduous leaves, rather large 

 glabrescent glumaceous stipules imbricating below the uppermost 

 leaves, and long subsessile flowers clustered at the extremities of the 

 branches. 



A monotypic genus. 



1. UK. lonsistyla, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 



p. 86. Shoots tawny-hirsute. Leaves oval broadly ovate or obovate, 

 more or less acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtuse or even excavated at 

 the base, submembranous, 2-7^ by 1-4| in. ; lateral veins 6-8 on each 

 side of midrib ; margins flat ; petiole ^"^4 i^- '■> stipules ovate, ^-1 in. 

 long, deciduous, acute or apiculate. Flowers fragrant, cream-coloured, 

 1^-3 in., exclusive of the style which is exserted nearly by as much 

 more. Calyx \—^ in. long, pubescent. Corolla-tube hirsute-pubescent 

 outside ; limb |-H ^^- diameter. Anthers \-^ in. long. Style green. 

 Fruit lJ-2 by 1^-1 j in.— Umidia longistyU, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 388. 

 Garderda longistyla^ Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4322. Oxyanthus villusus, 

 G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 494. 



TTpper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner ! Boivin ! Leprieur and Perrottet ! 

 Roussillon ; Sierra Leone, Whitfield ! and others ; Abbeokuta, Irving ! Barter! Bagroo 

 VAXer, Mayin .' Dahomey, Burton ! 



MTile Iiand. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth / 



Cultivated in Jamaica, and introduced into England. 



Gardenia pahacea, A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. 241, 294 (1834), may 

 possibly belong here. 



31. OXYANTHUS, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 



p. 91. 



Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate-oblong ; limb erect, short, 

 glabrous inside, truncate or 5-cleft ; teeth usually subulate. Corolla 

 salver-shaped ; tube elongated, very slender, cylindrical, much exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; throat glabrous ; limb 5-partite, spreading or reflexed ; 

 lobes narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, acuminate, dextrorsely contorted 

 in the bud (as seen from inside). Stamens 5, inserted at the mouth 

 of the corolla-tube; anthers linear, exserted, glabrous, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, acuminate. Disk cushion-like, annular. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style very slender, usually exserted, glabrous ; stigma usually fusiform 

 or narrowly club-shaped, bifid at the tip ; ovules numerous, not im- 

 mersed in the two fleshy placentas. Fruit baccate, oblong-elliptical or 

 subglobose, terete or ribbed, 2-1-celled ; pericarp coriaceous or fleshy. 

 Seeds usually numerous, in one species solitary in the cells, rather 

 large ; testa fibrous ; albumen copious, firmly fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, 

 foliaceous, as long as the terete radicle. — Shrubs or trees with sub- 

 terete branches, opposite shortly petiolate leaves, ovate stipules, and 

 ■usually white flowers in axillary racemes or panicles. 



A genus confined to Africa, containing three species in the Cape Flora and the 

 following : — 



