140 Lxx. RUBIACE.E (hiern). [Cantkium. 



subacuminate, ^ in. long, glabrous. Flowers . , . Fruits numer- 

 ous, ^— ^ in. long, didymous or dimidiate, glabrous, rather wrinkled. 

 Seeds horse-shoe-shaped ; albumen uniform ; embryo similar, terete. 

 Epigynous disk obsoletely hispid ; calyx 5 ?-lobed. Pedicels puberu- 

 lons, tV~5" i^- lo^g- Panicles repeatedly dichotoraous, subglobose, 

 2-3 in. long ; common peduncles very short, opposite. 

 irile Xiand. Niamniam-land, Nabambisso, Schweinfurth ! 



18. C. grlabriflorum, Hiern. An unarmed tree, 40-50 feet high, 

 with palm-like habit ; branches erect-patent, obtusely angular, glabrous 

 or somewhat hispid. Leaves oval, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 with a broad somewhat excavated base, thinly coriaceous, scabrous- 

 hispid or glabrate above, turning reddish when dry, more or less hispid 

 on the veins beneath, 3-5 by 1^-2^ in. ; lateral veins about 7-8 

 pairs; petiole -|^— ? in., hispid or glabrate; stipules ovate, |— ^ in. long. 

 Flowers ^ in. long (exclusive of the style), on short puberulous or gla- 

 brate pedicels, many together, in dense dichotomous globose panicles 

 of 1-1^ in. diameter ; common peduncle glabrate or puberulous, short 

 or ranging up to \ in., spreading, sometimes unilateral. Calyx-tube 

 glabrous ; limb truncate or obscurely toothed, glabrous or ciliolate. 

 Corolla glabrous outside, bearded ius'.de ; lobes 5, subobtuse. Disk 

 glabrous. Stigma elongate-calyptriform, much exserted. 



Upper Guinea. St. Thomas Island, alt. 1000 feet, Mann! Old Calabar, Rev. 

 W. C. Thomson ! 



19. C. Cornelia, Cham, et Schl. in Linncea, iv. p. 15 (1829). 

 A twining tawny-pubescent unarmed shrub. Branches spreading. 

 Leaves oval, obtusely or subacutely pointed at apex, rounded or 

 emarginate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 1^-3 by f-l| in. ; lateral 

 veins about 6-8 pairs ; petiole ^-J in., rather thick ; stipules depresso- 

 deltoid, apiculate, ^ in. long. Flowers about J in. long, on rather short 

 pubescent pedicels more or less densely packed in subglobose or hemi- 

 spherical panicles of about 1-2 in. diameter, on a stout common 

 peduncle of ^f in. Calyx-tube loosely pubescent, small ; limb wider, 

 deeply 5-lobed ; teeth lanceolate, pilose-ciliate. Corolla glabrous 

 outside ; throat bearded ; lobes 5, subobtuse. Anthers apiculate, longer 

 than the filaments. Disk glabrous. Stigma far exserted, calyptri- 

 form; style glabrous. "Fruit 1-celled by abortion, subreniform " 

 (A. Rich.).— DC. Prod. iv. p. 473 (1830). Pavetta Cornelia, Reichenb. 

 in Hb. Sieber. Seneg. n. 21 ! et ex DC. 1. c. C. sp.negalense, A. Rich, 

 ex DC. 1. c. p. 476, et in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. v. p. 188 (1834). 

 Flectronia hirsuta, DC. 1. c. p. 476. 



Upper Guinea. Senegarabia, Sieber ! and others. 



20. C. bispldum, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 409. A pilose- 

 hispid unarmed shrub with usually spreading branches and scandent 

 or rambling habit. Leaves cordiforni ovate or oval, more or less 

 acuminate, acute or apiculate, cordate rounded or emarginate at the 

 base, chartaccous, paler beneath, ^-4tk by ^-2^ in. ; lateral veins about 



