Canfhium.] i.xx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). 141 



7-12 pairs; petiole yV-a in. long; stipules small. Flowers ^ in, 

 long, on very short pubescent pedicels, many together, in dense small 

 pedunculate panicles ; common peduncles ranging up to ^ in., hispid. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, pilose-pubescent ; limb 5-dentate ; teeth small, 

 erect, somewhat hairy. Corolla glabrous outside ; tube inside covered 

 with deflexed paleaceous setaDr Disk hispidulous. Style exserted, 

 glabrous ; stigma calyptriform, 5-sulcate. Fruit i in. long (perhaps 

 immature). 



ITpif^er Guinea. Sierra. Leone, G. Bon, Af melius ! Ifllger, LagoB, Barter / Cape 

 Coast, Brass ! 



Xiower Guinea. Loango, Soyaux ! 



21. C setosuxn, Hiern. A climbing unarmed shrub of 40-50 

 feet. Branchlets thickened at the nodes, glabrate, sub terete. Leaves 

 oblong, narrowly acuminate, with a broad rounded or rather hollowed 

 base, thinly coria/Ceous, pilose-hispid on the midrib margins and 

 beneath on the veins, turning reddish when dry, 5-7 by 2-3 in. ; 

 lateral veins about 10 pairs ; petiole ^-^ in., pilose-hispid ; stipules 

 deltoid- acuminate, J in. long. Flowers ^ in. long, on nearly as long 

 slender hispid pedicels, numerous, in dense globose subsessile bracteate 

 panicles of . 1^2 in. diameter. Calyx-tube pilose; limb glabrous or 

 nearly so, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube glabrous outside ; throat hairy ; 

 lobes 5. Disk hairy. Stigma elongate-calyptriform, much exserted. 



ITpper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 2500 feet, Ma7in ! 



22. C. subcordatuxn, BG. Prod. iv. p. 473. Branches un- 

 armed, terete, spreading, hispid-pubescent with short spreading hairs 

 towards the extremities, glabrescent below. Leaves oval, obtuse 

 or subacute, nearly rounded or subcordate at base, thinly coriaceous, 

 glabrate above, hispidulous on the midrib and on the 7-8 pairs of 

 lateral veins beneath, 1^-3^ by |-2 in, ; petiole -|-^ in., hispidulous ; 

 stipules lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, \ in. long, hispidulous 

 outside, caducous. Flowers very small ; peduncles bifid, cymose, 

 many-flowered ; stigma ovate (DC). Fruit didymous or subdimidiate, 

 ^-^ in. long, on hispidulous pedicels of \ in., in dichotomous cymes 

 of 1^-1;^ in. ; common peduncle | in., puberulous or glabrate. Albu- 

 men ruminated. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, in moist woods near Albreda, Gambia, Leprieur 

 and Perrottet, Hevdclot ' 



23. C cong'ense, Hiern. Unarmed, glabrous except the 

 inflorescence. Branches subterete, rather pale, patent. Leaves oval, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded or nearly so or somewhat 

 hollowed at the base, coriaceous, paler beneath, 2-4J by l|^-2^ in., 

 rarely smaller ; lateral veins about 4-5 pairs ; petiole |-| in. ; stipules 

 lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, J-j in. Flowers small, 

 numerous, on short hispidulous pedicels ranging up to | in,, arranged 

 in dense globose dichotomous panicels of ^-1 in. diameter ; common 

 peduncle hispidulous or glabrate, ranging up to ^ in. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate -hispid with short golden-coloured hairs ; teeth 5, small, 



