Pavetta.] LXX. RUBiAOEiE (hiern). 171 



turning blackish in the dry state, 5-7 by 2-3 in. ; lateral veins about 

 7-9 pairs, slender ; petiole |-1:J- in. ; stipules ovate or apiculate from 

 a broad base, ^-^ in. long, caducous. Flowers ^ in. long, tetramerous, 

 white, on short slender ebracteolate pedicels in terminal corymbs of 

 2-4i in. diameter ; common peduncle ^-^ in. Calyx ^^ in. long ; limb 

 deeply 4-lobed ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla glabrous outside, pubes- 

 cent within the throat ; lobes oblong, scarcely equalling the tube, ob- 

 tuse. Anthers equalling the corolla-lobes, two and a half times the length 

 of the filaments. Disk glabrous. Style glabrous, exserted by y\ in., 

 undivided, rather thickened at the fusiform obtuse stigma. Fruit 

 (immature) ovoid, ^ in. long. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 414. 

 Ixora owariensis, Poir. in Encycl. Meth. Suppl. iii. 207 (1813). Com- 

 pare also I. africana, P. de Beauv. ex A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. Hist. 

 Par. V. p. 117 (1834). 



ITpper Guinea. Oware, P. de Beauvois ; Quorra, Th. Vogel ! 



6. P. g^laucescens, Hiern. Glabrous in most parts, shining. 

 Branchlets smooth. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acutely acuminate at 

 both ends, chartaceous, pale and glaucescent beneath except the 8-9 

 slender pairs of lateral veins, 6-9 by 1^2^ in., the uppermost (bracts) 

 4 by 1 in. ; petiole ^-2 in. ; stipules subtruncate, connate, apiculate, 

 glabrous, ^-^ in. Flowers tetramerous, ^ in. long, on minutely 

 puberulous ebracteate pedicels of ^—} in., in globose sessile panicles of 

 about 4 in. diameter. Calyx i in. long, turbinate ; limb ^ in. long, 

 minutely puberulous, deeply lobed ; lobes ovate, puberulous, ciliolate, 

 obtusely keeled, ^ in. long. Corolla glabrous outside, pubescent inside 

 above the middle of the tube ; lobes ovate-oblong, reflexed, mucronu- 

 late, ^— I in. long. Anthers narrowly linear, about ^ in. long, at length 

 twisted, somewhat apiculate, exserted ; filaments short. Style exserted 

 by f in., puberulous above, stigma narrowly fusiform, emarginate. 



ITpper .Guinea. Fernando Po, Manji ! 



7. P. puberula, Hiern. A rather pale shrub, 10 feet high. 

 Branchlets compressed or angular, shortly pubescent. Leaves elliptical, 

 shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, glabrate 

 above, puberulous at least on the principal veins beneath, 9-12 by 

 3^-4^ in., or the uppermost (bracts) about 3 by ^ in. ; lateml veins about 

 9-10 pairs ; petiole |-1 in., puberulous ; stipules broadly ovate, apicu- 

 late, f in. long. Flowers tetramerous, -J in. long, on puberulous ebrac- 

 teolate pedicels of xtr~i i°- or less, in a repeatedly branched brachiate 

 sessile panicle of 4-6 in. Calyx J in. long, puberulous or subglabrous ; 

 limb deciduous, deeply lobed ; lobes lanceolate or ovate, tt>-8 ^^- lc>ng, 

 subacute. Corolla white, glabrous outside, pubescent inside about the 

 middle of the robust tube ; lobes linear or okong, subapiculate, reflexed, 

 half as long again as the tube. Anthers exserted, reflexed, | in. long, 

 narrowly linear, apiculate; filaments yV in. Style exserted by 1 in., 

 minutely pubescent or glabrate except the puberulous fusiform emar- 

 ginate stigma. Fruit (perhaps immature) \ in. diameter. 



Vpper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann I 



