Pavetta.] Lxx. rubiacetE (hiern). 179 



glabrous except the puberulous subfasiform retuse stigma. Ovnles 

 solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. 

 TTpper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! 



25, F. grracilipes, Hiem. A small pallid nearly glabrous glossy 

 shrub. Branches smootii glabrous, obtusely angular, compressed 

 towards the extremities. Leaves oblanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at 

 the base, membranous, glabrous, 10-13^ by 31-4^ in. ; lateral veins 

 about 12-16 pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules can- 

 date-apiculate from a broad ovate connate base, J-| in. long. Flowers 

 numerous, |-J in. long, tetmmerous, on slender puberulous pedicels of 

 -! -? in., in axillary bracteolate pedunculate subglobose rather lax pen- 

 dulous corymbs of 4-6 in. diam. ; common peduncle slender, glabrous, 

 drooping, about equalling tlie leaves ; bracteoles small and subulate, 

 sometimes with one or two linear or narrowly elliptical bracts of 1^2 in. 

 long. Calyx -^^-^ in. long, obsoletely puberulous ; limb hemispherical, 

 4- cleft, lobes rounded or obtuse. Corolla glabrous except the pubes- 

 cent interior of the tube from the month part of the way down ; lobes 

 elliptical or ovate-oval, about |-in. long, obtuse. Anthers i in. long; 

 filaments ^V in. Disk glabrous. Ovary small. Style exserted by 

 |-f in., glabrous except the minutely puberulous subfnsiform undi- 

 vided stigma. Ovules solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. 

 Vpper Guinea. Eiver Gaboon, Mann ! 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



p. latlflora. G, Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 575, is Mernecylon Doniannm, Planch. ; Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. n. p. 463. 



57. COFPEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. PI. ii. p, 114. 



Calyx- tube short, campanulate turbinate or urceolate ; limb small or 

 obsolete, cleft or obscurely toothed, persistent, not accrescent. Corolla 

 salver- or somewhat funnel-shaped, membranous or slightly coriaceous ; 

 tube short or elongated ; throat glabrous ; limb spreading, 5-7-partite, 

 rarely 4- or 8- partite, lobes contorted dextrorsely (as seen from in- 

 side) in aestivation. Stamens 5-7, rarely 4 or 8, inserted at the mouth 

 of the corolla, exserted or partly included, glabrous ; filaments short or 

 obsolete or even two-thirds of the length of the anthers ; nnthers 

 linear, fixed at the back above the base. Disk fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform, glabrous, usually shortly exported, bifid ; lobes 

 linear spathulate or tapering ; ovules solitary, subpeitately attached 

 about the middle of the ovary or rather lower, amphitroponc-. Berry 

 (in our species) ellipsoidal oblong or subglobose, move or loss fleshy; 

 pyrenes 2 (one sometimes abortive), papery or coriaceons, convex on 

 the back, flat with a narrow usually deep longitudinal furrow on the 

 face. Seeds plano-convex ; umbilicus ventral ; testa membranous, in- 

 truded within the furrow of the face; embryo somewhat curved; 

 cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle subterete, inferior, longer than the 



