Cantkium.'} Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). 145 



shortly pefciolate, quite glabrous, delicately net- veined, 2 in. long ; 

 stipules attenuate and compressed at the apex. Peduncle axillary, the 

 length of the petiole, twice or thrice bifid ; pedicels numerous clustered; 

 bracts opposite at the division of the peduncle, roundish, acute, sessile. 

 Calyx-limb 5-toothed. Corolla tubular-campanulate, whitish ; tube 

 pubescent inside, -^^ in. long ; limb 5-cleft ; lobes ovate, acute, reflexed, 

 half the length of the tube. Filaments 5, inserted at the mouth of 

 the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate-oblong, dark brown. Ovary turbinate- 

 subrotund, quite glabrous ; style filiform, a little longer than the tube ; 

 stigma capitate, ovoid, obsoletely bifid at the apex. — FsycJiotria multl- 

 Horay Thonning in Schum. Beskr. Guin. PL p. 109. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, about Asiama, flowering in May. Tfiovning. 

 The description is taken from Thonning 1. c. ; I have seen no specimen. 



33. C. bibracteatuxn, BaJcer, Fl. Maurlt. p. 146, sub Plectronia. 

 A glabrous unarmed shrub. Branches ashy, striate, ^cect-patent, sub- 

 terete or the extremities subcompressed. Leaves oval, obtuse, nearly 

 rounded at the apex, somewhat narrowed at base, dark and rather 

 glossy above in the dry state, rather paler beneath, glabrous except 

 depressions in the axils of the 3-5 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 

 coriaceous, 2-4^ by 1-2J in. ; petiole J->; in. ; stipules ovate, apiculate, 

 glabrous, ^ in. Flowers ^ in. long, tetramerous, on short glabrous 

 pedicels, several together, umbellately arranged on a very short gla- 

 brous common peduncle bibracteate at the apex ; bracteoles ovate- 

 lanceolate, rather exceeding the pedicels. Calyx glabrous ; teeth 

 obtuse. Corolla-throat densely bearded ; tube without deflexed hairs 

 inside ; lobes obtuse. Disk glabrous. Stigma capitate, globose, not 

 much exserted. Fruit 1 in. long. — Psathura macrophylla and I'l/rostna 

 comcn'ensiSf Boj. mss. ex Baker 1. c. 



Mozaxnb. 3>istr. 2^inzibar, Kirk ! 



Occurs also in the Seychelles, the Comoro Islands, and Madagascar. This and 

 the next species have much the habit of the Mascarene genus Pyrostria. 



34. C crasBum, Schiveinf. mss. in Herh. suh Vangueria. A nearly 

 glabrous unarmed shrub, 5-15 feet high. Branches glabrous, thick, 

 the younger ones hollow. Bark corky, whitish. Leaves opposite, 

 glabrescent, obovate or oval, rounded obtuse or subacute at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, net- veined, subcoriaceous, 6-9 by 3-4 J in. ; 

 the young one smaller, turning black in the dry state ; lateral veins 

 about 8-10 pairs ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules apiculate from a coriaceous 

 broad ovate or truncate connate base, ^-^ in. long, subpersistent. 

 Flowers 4^5-merous, ^ in. long in bud, on very short pedicels, 

 numerous, in pedunculate lateral and axillary puberulous dense pani- 

 cles of -i— 1 in. diameter, below the young leaves ; peduncle ^1 in. 

 long, puberulous or glabrate ; bracteoles ovate, small, alternate. Calyx 

 ^ in. long ; tube puberulous ; limb broader, glabrate, obsoletely toothed. 

 Corolla glabrate outside ; tube furnished with deflexed hairs inside ; 

 throat pubescent; lobes ovate, obtuse. Anthers glabrous. Ovary 

 2-celled ; stigma capitate, globose, shortly exserted ; style glabrous. 



Wile land. Mittu-land, Schweinfurth I Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 

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