Tricalysia.] Lxx. rubiace^ (hiern). 123 



cup-shaped, pubernlous, ciliolate. Calyx truncate, puberulous, 5- 

 toothed. Corolla-lobes 5, puberulous outside, glabrous inside, oval, 

 apiculate ; throat obsoletely bearded. Anthers minutely apiculate ; 

 filaments rather short. Style glabrous. Ovules 2 together, collateral. 

 Vpper Cuinea. Gaboon Kiver, 1° N. lat., Mann! 



15. T. xnlcrophylla, Hiarn. A dense nearly glabrous bush, 

 3-4ft. high. Branches ashy, smooth, terete and glabrous except the 

 somewhat compressed puberulous extremities. Leaves elliptical, 

 obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, 

 glabrous, shining, rather thinly coriaceous, slightly paler beneath, 

 1^2 by f-1 in. ; lateral veins about 4 on each side, inconspicuous ; 

 stipules short, apiculate. Flowers hexamerous, J-f in. long, a few 

 together, subsessile, in very shoj"t axillary clusters ; epicalyx truncate, 

 puberulous, with opposite apiculate teeth. Calyx puberulous ; tube 

 exceeding the ovary, truncate, with 6 narrow teeth. Corolla salver- 

 ihaped, glabrous outside ; throait thinly pubescent ; lobes ovate, acute. 

 Anthers exserted, narrowly lineaf, not apiculate. Style glabrous. 



XMEozamb. Blstr. Islhnd Zdinzib&T, Hildebrandt ! 



16. T. nlamniamensis, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. A puberulous 

 shrub with straight branches. Leaves narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, 

 subacuminate to the obtuse apex, more or less narrowed towards the 

 base, glabrescent except the 8-4 pairs of puberuloxis principal veins 

 and the tufts of hairs in their axils, thinly coriaceous, 1^3^ by 

 ^-1 J in. ; petiole y^j- J in. ; stipules depresso-deltoid, apiculate. 

 Flowers |-^ in. lotig, sweet-scented, 3-10 together, subsessile, axillary. 

 Calyx- yVtV ^°- long, silky outside, shortly cut. Epicalyx simple or 

 nearly so. Cotolla-tube glabrous outside ; lobes 6, obtuse, hirsute 

 outside. Ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Style glabrous. Berry 

 shortly pubescent, ^ in. diam. — Bose.a (sp.), T. Thoms. in Speke, 

 Joum., App. p. 636 ; Tridalysia ? (sp.), Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 

 xxix. p. 89. 



xrile Iband. Niamniam-land, Schweinf urth .' at Madi, S'pe.ke and Grant ! 



Differs from Bunhurya capoids, Meissn., by the hirsute not glabrous backs of the 

 corolla-lobes. 



A specimen from the banks of the Luinha River in Angola, where it was found by 

 Dr. Livingstone to be cultivated as coflfee, according to a note of Dr. Welwitsch, may 

 belong to this species; it has elliptical leaves 4-4^ by 1^-1 § in. and a hexamerous 

 corolla. A fragment of the plant was communicated to Dr. Welwitsch in December. 

 1854, in whose herbarium I have seeh it. 



17. T. djureAsls, Schweinf. ms6. in Berh. A puberulous shrub, 

 15-20 ft. high. Leaves ovate-oval, suhobtuse, rounded or slightly 

 excavalted at the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrescent except the 

 puberulous midrib and the small tufts of hairs in the axils of the 

 principal veins, 1-2^ by §-1 in. ; lateral veins about 3-5 pairs, in- 

 conspicuous ; petiole very short ; stipules deltoid, apiculate. Flowers 

 g in. long, subsessile, 3-6 together, axillary. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 shortly silky, obscurely 5-toothcd. Epicalyx single. Corolla greenish ; 



