156 Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). [Fodogia. 



ovate, apiculate, ■^^- in. long. Disk glabrous. Ovary 5-celled ; stigma 

 exserted, rather longer than thick, 10-angled, rounded and 5-lobed at 

 the tip. 



KUe ]Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurih! 



9. P. lactlflora, Welw. ex Hooh. f. mss. in Herb. Kew. Villons- 

 tomentose throughout and pale when dry. Stems several, strict, 

 herbaceous fi'om a woody root-stock, 1-2 feet high. Leaves very 

 uniformly 3-5-nately whorled, subsessile, elliptic-ovate, pointed or 

 subacuminate, 1-1 j by |-1 in. ; stipules subulate from a broad base, 

 ^— J in. long. Flowers fasciculate, }-l in. long, white ; pedicels ^-J in. 

 Calyx-teeth linear- subulate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 

 broadly cylindrical, white, villous, ^-^ in. long ; lobes with slender 

 quasi-dorsal horns nearly as long as themselves, glabrous within except 

 a silky band half way up. Fruit didymous, f-^ in. diam., glabrous, 

 crowned with the villous calyx-lobes, edible. 



l^ower Guinea. Huilla, on shrubby hills near Lopollo, Welwitsch I 



52. CUVIERA, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 112— (PttcAv/- 

 stigma, Hochst. ; LagyniaSj E. Mey). 



Calyx-tube small, turbinate ; limb 5-partite ; segments linear or 

 lanceolate, foliaceous, accrescent, elongated, spreading. Corolla sub- 

 rotate, fleshy ; tube short, furnished inside with deflexed hairs ; throat 

 glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, acute or caudate-acuminate, induplicate- 

 valvate in aestivation, about equalling the calyx-lobes, spreading. Sta- 

 mens 5, glabrous, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, reflexed ; 

 filaments short, flattened. Anthers exserted, lanceolate, fixed by the 

 base. Disk flat or depressed, glabrous. Ovary 5- or 3-celled ; style 

 glabrous or pilose-hirsute, short or of moderate length, rather robust ; 

 stigma subglobose, mitriform, sulcate ; ovules solitary, pendulous. 

 Fruit drupaceous, egg-shaped, truncate at the apex, angular or oblique ; 

 pyrenes 5 or fewer, 1 -seeded. — Glabrous unarmed (in the species hero 

 described) shrubs or small trees, with opposite leaves and branches, 

 broad apiculate stipules, flowers of moderate size not all fertile 

 arranged in divaiicately branched panicles, and foliaceous bracteoles 

 as large as the calyx-lobes. 



A genus of the following, as well as perhaps a few Cape species. 

 Ovary 5-celIed. 

 Style glabrous. 



Leaves coriaceous, subequal at the base 1. C. acutiflora. 



Leaves chartaceous, oblique at the base . . . . . 2. C siibuliflora. 



Style pilose-hirsute 3. C. longiflora. 



Ovary 3-celled 4. C. trilocdaris. 



1. C. acutiflora, DC. in Ann. Mus. Par. ix. p. 222, t. 15 (1807). 

 A glabrous shrub, 15-20 feet high. Branches terete, divaricate, 

 supra- axillary. Leaves oval-oblong, acuminat-e, subequal and rounded 

 or somewhat naiTowed at the base, coriaceous, glossy, rather or 

 scarcely paler beneath, 4-10 by l|-4 in. ; some 4-6 in. wide (Benth.) ; 



