Cremaspora.] r.xx. RUBiACRiE (hierx). 127 



hirsute. Leaves oval, siibacuminate, rounded at the base, chartaceous, 

 glabrate above, hirsute at least on the midrib beneath, 1^-2^ by 

 j-1^ in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, clearly marked beneath, rather 

 patent ; petiole ^ in. long, hirsute ; stipules subulate, ^-^ in. long, 

 hirsute. Flowers 5-6-merous, white, (in bud) ^^ in. long, sessile, a 

 few (3-1) together, in very abbreviated axillary clusters. Bracteoles 

 subulate, small, at the base of the calyx, thinly pubescent. Calyx 

 pilose-hirsute especially at the base ; limb 5-6-toothed, glabrous 

 inside; teeth subulate. Corolla silky outside, glabrous inside except 

 the pubescent throat ; lobes 5-6, ^ in. long, lanceolate-oblong, not 

 acute, with longitudinal veins ; tube apparently short. Anthers 5-6, 

 linear, inserted at the throat of the corolla, subsessile, fixed at the back 

 near the base. Fruit deep red. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Eev. W. C. Thomson! 



43. POLYSPHiEBIA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 



ii. p. 108. 



Calyx-tube small, turbinate or campanulate; limb cup-shaped, 

 truncate or shortly 4-dentate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; 

 tube short ; throat densely bearded ; lobes 4, contorted dextrorsely (as 

 seen from inside) in aestivation, sometimes very narrowly so. Stamens 

 4, inserted at the mouth of the corolla- tube, included ; filaments very 

 short ; anthers linear, apiculate, fixed at the back near the base, glabrous. 

 Disk small, fleshy. Ovary 2- celled ; style filiform, exserted, shortly 

 pubescent ; stigma undivided, fusiform ; ovules solitary, suspended 

 by the inner side of the apex. Berry rather small, globose, coria- 

 ceous, 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. Seeds rounded ; testa striate-sulcate ; 

 albumen ruminated ; embryo small ; cotyledons rounded, flat ; radicle 

 superior. — Glabrous pubescent or pilose shrubs with supra-axillary 

 branches, opposite elliptical leaves having divaricate lateral veins, some- 

 times the leaves below the branches suborbicular and cordate, apiculate 

 supra-axillary stipules from a broad base, small flowers in axillary 

 clusters, and small cup-shaped bracteoles. 



A small genus confined to Nile land, Mozambique and the Comoro Islands. The 

 species are very closely related. 



Calyx truncate, glabrous 1. P. midtiflora. 



Calyx shortly 4-dentate, pubescent or puberulous. 



Leaves mostly lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, clusters 



of flowers shortly pedunculate 2. P. lanceolata. 



Leaves mostly oval or ovate. Clusters of flowers sessile. 



Petiole pubescent. Leaves |-2|^ in 3. P. parvifoUa. 



Petiole glabrous. Leaves 2^4 *in 4. P. Sihweitifurthii. 



Polysfhaeria'i ligustrifiora, Vatke in Linndea xl. 193 (1876), Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 

 ann. 1863, nn. 1110 and 1471, belongs to the genus Olinia, Thunb. (Lythraceae), 

 which is the true Plectronia, Linn. 



1. P. multiflora, Hiern. A glabrous shrub. Leaves oval or 

 slightly obovate or those below the branchlets subrotund, obtuse, 

 sometimes mucrouulate, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the 



