178 T,xx. RUBiACE^ (hiebn). [Pavetta. 



ments sbort. Disk glabrous. Ovary short. Style exserted by f-^ in., 

 glabrous, fusiform above, undivided. Ovules solitary, immersed in 

 the fleshy placentas. Fruit i in. diam., shining.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 i. p. 351. P. longiflora, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 210, non 

 Vahl ; P. reflexa, Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. p. Ixii., name only (1814), 

 {Salt! flowers reflexed, \ in. long). 



Iffile Iiand. Abyssinia, Sckimper ! Q. Billon et Petit f Capt. Pullen 1 



a. longiflora, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 231. 



Flowers ranging up to 1^ in., white, subsessile. Stipules much apiculate. Style 

 exserted by | in. 



Wile land. Abyssinia, at 5000 ft. alt., August, 1872, Hildehrandt, 496 ; 1870, 

 Beccari, 148. 



)8. hreviflora, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 231. 



Flowers yellowish, § in. long. 



Wile land. Somali, Hildehrandt ! Abyssinia, Hildehrandt ! 



23. P. canescens, BG. Prodr. iv. 492, ex descriptinne. A shrub, 

 about 4 feet high, with cinereous terete erect-patent glabrescent 

 branches. Leaves obovate-oval, rounded retuse or shortly pointed at 

 the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, subchartaceous, somewhat hairy 

 above, hoary-velvety beneath, deciduous, 1^2^ by 1-1| in. ; lateral 

 veins about 10 pairs ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules ovate, acuminate, con- 

 nate at the base, J-^ in. long. Flowers tetramerous, white, | in. long 

 when expanded exclusive of the style, on short shortly pubescent 

 (hirsute, DC.) pedicels, numerous, in dense globose subsessile clusters 

 lateral on leafless portions of the branches. Calyx ebracteolate, ^ in. 

 long, shortly hairy (hirsute, DC.) ; limb shortly toothed, teeth keeled, 

 subapiculate. CoroUa glabrous outside or very nearly so ; tube pu- 

 bescent inside ; lobes oval, mucronulate, J in. long, very thinly puber- 

 ulous inside. Anthers nearly equalling the corolla-lobes, filaments 

 short. Disk glabrous. Ovary campanulate, small ; style exserted by 

 nearly i in., glabrous below, puberulous and subclavate above, bifid at 

 the tip." Ovules shortly sunk at the apex in the placenta. — P. tomentosa, 

 A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 181, non Roxb. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola, at Ambriz, Monteiro ! 



24. P. rigridav Hiern. A rigid nearly glabrous pallid shrub, 

 10-12 feet high. Branches subterete, somewhat compressed towards 

 the extremities. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, obliquely narrowed 

 at the base, glabrous, chartaceous, 6-9 by 2|-3^ in. ; lateral veins about 

 10-12 pairs, slender ; petiole ^-1 in. ; stipules broadly ovate, apicu- 

 late, about f in, long, deciduous. Flower f in. long, tetramerous, on 

 rigid puberulous pedicels of ^2-| in., numerous, in somewhat lax axillary 

 rigid pedunculate ascending bracteolate corymbs of 5-6 in. diam. ; 

 common peduncle equalling or rather exceeding the leaves ; bracteoles 

 subulate, small. Calyx green, ^ in long, turbinate, obsoletely puberu- 

 lous ; limb y^ i^- ^o^?> shortly 4-lobed or sinuate-trun-cate. Corolla 

 glabrous except the pubescent interior of the tube from the mouth part 

 of the way downwards, white ; lobes oval, | in. long, obtuse, spreading. 

 Anthers reflexed, shorter than the corolla-lobes, twice the length of the 

 filaments. Disk glabrous. Ovary small. Style exserted by If in., 



