124 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [Tricalysia. 



tube glabrous outside ; lobes 5 rarely 6, obtuse, glabrous inside or 

 nearly so. Style glabrous. Ovules 2 together. Fruit 1-seeded, red, 

 about ^ in. diam. 



urile Iiand. Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 



18. T. jasxniniflora, Benth. et Hooh. f. Gen. Plant, ii. p. 95. 

 A puberulous or sub-velutinous shrub, about 5 ft. high or more, erect 

 or climbing. Leaves narrowly elliptical or ovate, more or less 

 narrowed at both ends, apiculate, acute or obtuse at the base, mem- 

 branous or subchartaceous, shortly pubescent especially beneath, 1^-5 

 by f-2 in. ; lateral veins about 4-5 pairs, not conspicuous ; mar- 

 gins flat ; petiole y2~6 ^^- 5 stipules yV~8" ^^- ^^ng, with scarious 

 truncate margin and a finely subulate apiculus ^-^ in. long. Flowers 

 ^— J in. long, subsessile, 1-3 together, lateral, often appearing in the 

 axils of the old leaves before the development of the new ones, 

 6-8-merous, white, silky-tomentose outside. Epicalyx double, each 

 with 2 opposite decussate erect apiculi. Calyx slit down on two 

 opposite sides. Corolla-lobes ^| in. long, obtuse; tube hirsute. 

 Filaments slender, glabrous, short or rather long. Style glabrous. 

 Ovules 2-4 together. Berry red. — Rosea jasminiflora, Klotzsch in 

 Monatsb. Acad. Wiss. Berl. 1853, p. 502, et in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 

 t. 45. 



Mozamb. Sistr. Zambesia, Sena, Peters! Moramballa, Kirk! Eiver Ruo, 

 junction with Shire, Bishop Mackenzie's grave, Kirk ! Manganja Hills, Meller ! 



19. T. crassifolia, Benth. et Hooh. /. Gen. Plant, ii. p. 95. A 

 shrub with robust branchlets, puberulous at the extremities ; bark 

 ashy. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subacuminate, obtuse or apiculate, 

 wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, dark green and glabrescent 

 above, pale and glabrate beneath except short hairs along- the midrib 

 and the 4-5 pairs of slender lateral veins and their axils, thinly and 

 firmly coriaceous, 2^-4 by f-1 in. ; margins revolute ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, with a short broad connate base and an equalling or longer 

 subulate apiculus. Flowers crowded or few together in axillaiy 

 abbreviated clusters. Epicalyx usually double ; teeth all small. Calyx 

 truncate, split, silky. Corolla-lobes obtuse, wrinkled at least in the 

 dry state, \ in. long, glabrous inside. Style glabrous. — Rosea crassi- 

 folia, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1853, p. 502, et in 

 Peters Mossamb. Bot. t. 46. 



MCozamb. XMstr. By the Sena River, Peters ! 



20. T. SLirkli, Hiern. A bush, 4 ft. high, with glabrescent 

 branches. Leaves oval-oblong, obtusely or subacutely narrowed 

 towards both ends, apiculate, glabrescent, thinly coriaceous, pale 

 beneath, 2 J-4J by f-1^ in. ; lateral veins about 4-6 pairs,- not conspicuous, 

 impressed above ; petiole tV^ ^°- 5 stipules ^-^ in. long, truncate, 

 with setaceous apiculus ^— J in. long. Flowers about \ in. long, white, 

 subsessile, 3 together, axillary. Calyx silky outside, \ in. long, 

 splitting up. Epicalyx single or nearly so, puberulous. Corolla-tube 



