154 Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hieen). [Fadogia. 



Flowers pedicellate, in axillary and lateral peduncnlate bracteolate his- 

 pidulous or glabrate panicles, 1-2 in. long ; common peduncles ranging 

 up to 1 in. ; bracteoles lanceolate or linear, like the calyx-segments. 

 Calyx ^J in. long ; tube globose, hispid or glabrate ; segments 5-6, 

 linear, foliaceous, ^-l in. long, spreading. Corolla ^ in. long ; tube 

 clothed inside with reflexed silky hairs ; throat naked ; segments gla- 

 brous. Disk glabrous. Ovary 2 (-3-5) -celled; style filiform; stigma 

 truncate at both ends (Sonder). Drupe oblique, 1-1;^ in. long. — 

 Vangueria Zeyheri, Sond. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 15. 



Soutb Central?. (In fruit), a.d. 1872, T. Baines! 



Occurs also in stony places in woods at Macalisberg in the Transvaal EepuLlic.-- 

 The calyx-segments are very like those of the genus Cuviera. 



3. P. agrestis, Schweinf. mss. in Ilerh. A tawny-tomentellous 

 undershrub, 1^-2 feet high. Stems branched only at the base, erect, 

 biennial. Leaves 3 together or occasionally the uppftr ones opposite, 

 oval, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, subsessile, thinly coriaceous, subscabrid above, pale tawny and 

 velvety beneath, l^-Sf by |-lf in. or the lower ones smaller ; lateral 

 veins about 4-6 pairs ; stipules J in. long, hairy. Flowers ^ in. lon^, 

 hairy outside, on short or moderately long pedicels, several together in 

 axillary short hairy panicles ; common peduncle ranging to § in. ; 

 pedicels to f in. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, equal, shorter than the tube, 

 hairy on both sides. Corolla-lobes 5, ovate -lanceolate, mucronate, 

 glabrous inside. Disk glabrous. Ovary 4-5-celled ; stigma exserted. 

 Fruit costate, glabrate, ^ in. broad, tipped by the persistent calyx, 

 3-1-seeded. 



Vpper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter ! 

 Ifile Xiand. Djur-land, Schweinf urth ! 



4. F. Cienkowskii, Schweinf. Bel. Kofsch. 47, t. 32. A hirsute 

 undershrub, 2 feet high. Stems shrubby below, herbaceous above, 

 erect, not much branched. Leaves 3-4 together, oval, obtuse or sub- 

 cuspidate at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subsessile base, chartaceous, 

 scattered with subappressed hispid hairs and at length rugose above, 

 paler and hirsute at least on the veins beneath, 1^-4 by |-2 in., equal- 

 ling or exceeding the internodes ; lateral veins about 5-7 pairs ; stipules 

 much apiculate, ^-^ in. long, hirsute or nearly glabrous outside. 

 Flowers \ in. long, on rather shorter pedicels, erect, 3-1 together, on a 

 short common peduncle, axillary. Calyx puberulous or glabrate ; teeth 

 glabrate, subulate, short, -^^ in. long or less, somewhat unequal, 5 or 

 with 1-5 extra minute ones intercalated. Corolla glabrous or puberu- 

 lous outside ; tube shortly funnel-shaped, pubescent inside ; lolDes 5-6, 

 lanceolate, apiculate. Disk glabrous. Ovary 3-4 (-5)-celled. Drupe 

 globose ; pyrenes 5 or fewer. — B/iibiacea, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 

 p. 139, n. 713. 



upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe (flowers yellow), Barter! 



xrortb Central. Musgo, Sokoto, E. Vogel ! 



XOrile Xiand. Fadoga, Sennaar, (corolla whitish), CienJcovjski. t 



Xiower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Huilla, in pastures, Wchoit>fch ! 



