158 Lxx. RUBUCEjE (niERN). [Cuviera. 



pedicels, several together, in the terminal or snbtermiQal axils ; 

 panicles 1^-2 in. diameter ; common peduncle abont ^ in. ; bracteoles 

 lanceolate, J— | in. long. Calyx- segments greenish white, ^ in. long or 

 rather more, linear-elliptical, acute, narrowed toward the base. Corolla 

 shorter than the calyx ; lobes Hnceolate, candate-acute. Style gla- 

 brous, stigma 10-sulcate. Ovary 3-celled. 



Vpper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson ! 



53. ANCYLANTHOS, Desf. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 112 (Anci/lanthus). 



Calyx-tube campanulate or subglobose, limb 5-partite, segments 

 ovate lanceolate or subulate, persistent. Corolla tubular, spmewhat 

 arching inwards ; tube furnished inside near the base with a ring of 

 hairs ; limb rather unequally 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, erect- 

 patent, apiculate, valvate in the bud, indaplicately so towards the 

 apex. Stamens 5, small, glabrous, subsessile, inserted at the throat of 

 the corolla, included ; anthers oval-oblong, obtuse. Disk hemispherical 

 or nearly flat, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 5-celled; style tapering, 

 equalling the corolla or shortly exserted, glabrous ; stigma shortly 

 oblong, 10-sulcate, subcalyptriform, minutely 5-lobed at the tip ; 

 ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit fleshy, globose, reddish ; pyrenes 5 

 or fewer. Seeds pendulous, testa thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 nearly the length of the seed, radicle superior. — Erect or decumbent 

 rigid tomentose shrubs, with opposite coriaceous net- veined leaves, 

 ovate or subulate stipules and tomentose drooping fasciculate flowers 

 of moderate size. 



A genus of six? species, all African, one being extra-tropical. 

 Calyx-lobes broad, ovate. 

 Branches hoary or glabrate. Leaf-margins flat or nearly so 1. A. ruhiffinosus. 

 Branches clothed ■with rusty tomentum. Leaf-margins 



wrinkled 2. A.fulgi'du8. 



Calyx-lobes subulate or lanceolate. 

 Tawny or hoary. 

 Leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, villous below . . . ^. A. cinerascens. 

 Leaves linear oblong or linear-oblong, very thick, margins 



recurved, with bufiy wool below 4. A. cistifolius. 



Rufous. Leaves oval d. A. Bainesii.] 



1. A. rubigrinoBUS, Desf. in Mem. Mus. Far. iv. p. 5, t. 2 (1818). 

 An ornamental shrub, with the habit of an Azalea, 3-5 feet high, 

 branching from the base ; branches strict rigid, glabrescent ; branch- 

 lets supra-axillary, hoary, erect-patent, tips shortly tomentose. Leaves 

 1-3 by f-lj in., elliptical or obovate, subcoriaceous, rather crass, 

 obtuse retuse or with a short obtuse point, somewhat wedge-shaped at 

 the base, above minutely scabrid hairs ; veins closely reticulate ; below 

 ashy or pale tawny densely tomentose with simple and stellate hairs, 

 nerves many reticulate, margins fljit or nearly so ; petioles ^-^ in. ; 

 stipules about \ in. long, subulate from a broad connate base. Flowers 

 in axillary somewhat whorled fascicles, chiefly below the leaves, ap- 

 pearing before the full development of the leaves, drooping ; peduncles 



