130 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). * [Aulacoccilyic. 



long. Calyx f in. long ; hairs pale golden. Bracteoles ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, acute, imbricated, shorter than the calyx. 



Upper Guinea. Mount John River, Kongui, lat. 1° N., Mann! 



46. LAMPBOTHAMNUS, Hiern. 

 Calyx-tube cup-shaped, bracteolate at the base ; bracteoles calycu- 

 late ; ]imb shortly cleft ; lobes 4-5, rounded, imbricated in bud. Co- 

 rolla funnel-shaped, deeply 6-7-fid ; tube exserted, cylindrical below, 

 funnel-shaped above ; throat pubescent ; lobes spreading, oval, contorted 

 dextrorsely (as seen from within). Stamens 6-7, exserted, inserted at 

 the mouth of the corolla ; filaments short, glabrous ; anthers narrowly 

 linear, apiculate, fixed at the back a little above the base, versatile, gla- 

 brous or slightly puberulous at the back. Disk annular, fleshy, 

 glabrous. Ovary 2-1-celled ; style glabrous below ; stigma thicker, 

 exserted, elongate-clava,te, pubescent, bifid or bidentate, lobes pointed ; 

 ovules solitary, pendulous from a thickened fanicle. Fruit .... — 

 Shrubby. Leaves opposite, subsessile, cordate, lucid, thinly coriaceous, 

 with interpetiolar ovate apiculate stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 white, fragrant, rather large, in dense sub terminal corymbs. 



Anew monotypic genus. 



1. Zi. zangruebaricus, Hieiti. Glabrous except the inflorescence. 

 Branches robust, obtusely quadrangular, smooth, pallid, leafy above. 

 Leaves oval, obtuse, veiny, 2-4 by 1-2 in. ; stipules ^^ in. long, ex- 

 ceeding the petiole. Flowers before expansion f— | in. long, and as 

 much in diameter when expanded. Corymbs 1^2 in. diam. ; common 

 peduncle J-^ in. long ; bracts connate, ovate, not large. Calyx ^ in. 

 long, glabrous outside, ciliolate, shortly hairy inside. Corolla-tube 

 ^ in. long ; lobes | in. long. Anthers ^ in. long. Style ^ in. — Hook. 

 Ic. PI. 1220. 



BCozaxnb. Bistr. Zanadbar coast, at Dar Salam, Kirk ! 



47. EHABDOSTIGMA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. p. 109. 



Calyx small ; tube campanulate ; limb 5-dentate. Corolla subro- 

 tate ; tube short, funnel-shaped ; throat bearded ; limb spreading, 

 /S-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate, dextrorsely contorted in aestivation 

 (as seen from the inside). Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the 

 corolla, glabrous, exserted ; filaments very short, subulate ; anthers 

 linear, acute. Disk annular. Ovary 2 -celled; dissepiment thin ; style 

 columnar, glabrous ; stigma narrowly club-shaped, 10-sulcate, with 10 

 narrow membranous wings ; ovules solitary, pendulous, compressed ; 

 funicle short, not thickened. Fruit unknown. — A small glabrous tree 

 with 4-sided branches, opposite leaves, ovate apiculate interpetiolar 

 stipules, and rather small bracteolate pedicellate flowers in axillary 

 lax panicles. 



A monotypic genus. 



Octotropis, Bedd. an Indian monotypic genus differs from this only by a 1-celIed 

 ovarv, 5-4-merous flowers, and 8-sulcate and 8-alate stigma. 



