Pavetta.'] Lxx. RUBUCEiE (hiern). 173 



base, caducous, small. Flowers tetramerous, {; in. long when expanded, 

 exclusive of the style, on very short velvety pedicels, crowded many 

 together, terminating short lateral naked branches. Calyx ^^v> in. 

 long, velvety outside, campanulate, ebracteolate ; limb small, gla- 

 brous inside, 4-toothed ; teeth deltoid, small. Corolla- tube slender, 

 pubescent on both sides, slightly arching ; lobes 4, oval, obtuse, 1 in. 

 long, minutely ciliolate, glabrate inside, spreading. Anthers ^ in. long, 

 apiculate, spreading ; filaments short. Disk glabrous. Style exserted 

 by J in., glabrous except the puberulous narrowly fusiform obtuse 

 undivided stigma. 



Wile Iiand. Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 



12. P. gracilis, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamh. Bot. p. 290 (1861). A 

 small pallid bush. Branches rather slender, whitish, glabrate, terete ex- 

 cept the extremities ; young barren branches annulated. Leaves elliptical 

 or slightly obovate, acuminate or subcuspidate, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 membranous, glabrate or shortly pubescent especially beneath, crowded 

 near the ends of the branches, rather paler beneath, 1-4^ by ^-If in.; 

 lateral veins about 7-9 pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole |^-| in. ; stipules 

 ovate or lanceolate, apiculate or acuminate, glabrate or pubescent, ^—^ 

 in. long. Flowers white, tetramerous, ^J in. long, on short pubescent 

 or nearly glabrous ebi^acteate pedicels in dense sessile terminal globose 

 panicles of 2-3 in. diameter. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, acute, 

 more or less hispidulous, ^— ^ in. long, persistent. Corolla-tube glabrous 

 outside, sparingly pubescent inside, slender ; lobes oval, apiculate, ^— ^ 

 in. long, spreading. Anthers linear, exserted, scarcely as long as the 

 corolla-lobes, at length twisted, subsessile. Style glabrous, slender, 

 exserted by §-| in., undivided, slightly thicker towards the summit. 

 Berry globose, J in. diameter or rather more. — P. incana^ Klotzsch 1. c. 

 p. 289, is a more pubescent form of the same species. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. R. Sena, Peters ! Shiramba, Kirk ! ; between Lupata and Tette, 

 Kirk ! Sliigogo, Kirk ! Manganja Mountains, Kirk ! Foot of Moramballa, Kirk ! 

 Tette, Teters ! (P. incana, KL). 



Not the Pavetta gracilis of A. Richard (1830) nor that of Korthals (1851), neither 

 of which may belong to Pavetta. 



13. P. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 166 (1837). A 

 shrub, about 5 feet high, with pale branches. Leaves opposite, elliptical, 

 narrowed at both ends, chartaceous, glabrate above, pubescent beneath, 

 1-^5 by |-2^ in. ; lateral veins about 10-12 pairs ; petiole ^—^ in. ; 

 stipules subtruncate, sheathing, |-f in. long. Flowers teti'amerous, 

 1-1^ in. long, on short pedicels, crowded in dense terminal sessile 

 clusters 2-4 in. diameter. Calyx ebracteolate, shortly pubescent or 

 glabrate, \-}^ in., 'deeply lobed, persistent, erect; lobes subulate, rather 

 unequal, ^-^ in. long. Corolla-tube pubescent inside, glabrous outside 

 or very nearly so, robust ; lobes oval-oblong, mucronulate, ^— | in. long. 

 Anthers ^— ^ in. long, exserted ; filaments short. Disk glabrous. Ovary 

 campanulate, small; style exserted by |— ^ io., puberulous above, 

 glabrous below, undivided ; ovules pendulous, not immersed. Fruit 



