136 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiekn). [Cauthium. 



as long as the corolla when straightened, glabrous. Stigma far ex- 

 serted, mitriform, terete, bifid at tip. Fruit ^ in. long, obscurely 

 marked with transverse wrinkles, subdidymous or one half abortive ; 

 seeds and embryo carved round the placentas through half a circle ; 

 albumen uniform. — FhaUaria Schiwperi, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 

 Abyss, i. n. 328 (1840) ; Flectroma Schimperi, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 

 Abyss, iii. n. 19(0 (1844) ; Guntldum lucidum, Br. in Salt, Abyss, 

 p. Ixii., name only, non Schldt., nee Hook, et Am. ; Plectronia 

 Schimperiana, Vatke in Linnsea, xl. p. 195, n. 12 (1876), ex parte. 



Wile X.and. Abyssinia, Schiiiipir ! i. 328, iii. 1900; (1853) 174; (1854) 2240; 

 (1862) 232 ; 5500 -7000 feet alt. ; Amba Sea ; Tigre-name 'Zadak.' Salt! 



7. C. Vatkeanum, Kiern. A long puberulous unarmed shrub, 

 with erect-patent terete branches, somewhat compressed at the extre- 

 mities, with abbreviated axillary shoots giving the branches a fascicu- 

 lated appearance. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate, more or less 

 wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, scattered with very short hairs 

 above, paler and softly puberulous beneath, 2-3^ by |-] \ in. ; lateral 

 veins about 7-8 pairs, not conspicuous ; stipules connate, sheathing, 

 apiculate, intra-petiolar, about |— ^ in. long; petiole closely puberu- 

 lous, ^-\ in. long. Fruiting pedicels fasciculate, about ^ in. long, 

 several together at the nodes. Fruit about ^ in. long, subdidymous. 

 Calyx-limb after the fall of the corolla truncate, very short, glabrous. 

 Disk glabrous. Ovary ovules and embryo of the genus. — P. Schim- 

 perlana, Vatke in Linnasa, xl. p. 195, n. 12 (1876), ex parte. 



WUe Xiand. Abyssinia, at the river Bepp, 7000-8000 feet alt., Schimper ! 



8. C. anomccarpum, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 475. A glabrous glossy 

 unarmed shrub, about 10 feet high, with long rambling spread- 

 ing branches. Leaves oval, obtusely acuminate or subacute, more or 

 less wedge-shaped at the base except the suborbicular leaves at the 

 base of the branchlets, thinly coriaceous, of nearly the same colour on 

 the two surfaces, 1^-4 by |-2 in. ; lateral veins about 4^5 pairs, incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole very short ; stipules subulate from a broad base, 

 I in. long. Flowers ^-^ in. long, on slender glabrous pedicels ^-^ in. 

 (lengthening in fruit to ^-1^ in.), umbel! ately arranged on very short 

 solitary common peduncles. Calyx very small, glabrous except the 

 4-5 small puberulous spreading teeth. Corolla glabrous outside, with 

 tleflexed closely appressed hairs below the apex ; lobes ovate, obtuse ; 

 throat scarcely bearded. Disk elevated, annular, glabrous. Fruit 

 J-^ in. long, didymous or subdiraidiate, 2-, or by abortion 1-celled ; 

 pericarp fleshy. Seeds and embryo curved through half a circle in a 

 vertical plane (regarding the placenta ac5 a horizontal axis) ; albumen 

 uniform. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathman ex DC. I.e. Afztlius! Senegambia, 

 Albrcda, Perottet aiid Lcprieur, Heudelot! Niger, Th. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! Lagos 

 Island, Barter! 



9. C. acutiflorum, Hiem. A climbing shrub of 15-20 feet, or a 

 tree, unarmed, quite glabrous except the flowers, shining*. Branches 



