J^silafUhus.] LXX. KUiiiACEiE (hiern). 187 



3. p.? tetramerus, Hiern. Glabrons. Branches opposite, 

 terete except the extremities, subcinereous, erect-patent, approximated. 

 Leaves elliptical or rather obovate, obtusely acuminate, attenuate to 

 the very shortly petiolate base, firmly chartaceous, of nearly the same 

 colour on the two surfaces, 1^-3 by -^1 in. ; lateral veins slender, in- 

 conspicaous, about 6-7 pairs, often with little glandular pits in the 

 axils beneath ; stipules shortly ovate, apiculate, pallid, deciduous. 

 Flowers tetramerous, f in. long, sessile or subsessile in the uppermost 

 axils of adult or young leaves, solitary or two together. Bracteoles 

 absent from the base of the calyx. Calyx-limb short, truncate, crenu- 

 late, broader than the tube. Corolla salver-shaped ; lobes 4, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, ^^ in. long ; throat glabrous. Anthers just included, 

 linear, subsessile, ^\, in. long ; attachment rather above the middle of 

 the back. Style ^ in. long, nearly entire and glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelivs ! seen from the Berlin herbarium, but 

 not in that of Afzelius. 



59. RUTIDEA, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 116. 



Calyx-tube ovoid or campanulate ; limb 5-4-, rarely 6-lobed, de- 

 ciduous ; lobes ovate subulate or filiform. Corolla salver-shaped some- 

 times shortly so ; tube cylindrical ; throat glabrous ; limb spreading or 

 reflexed, deeply lobed, lobes 5-4 or rarely 6, oval, contorted dextrorsely 

 (as seen from inside) in the bud. Stamens 5-4, rarely 6, inserted at 

 the mouth of the corolla, exserted ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, 

 apiculate, spreading, fixed at the back rather above the base. Disk 

 fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled or incompletely so ; style 

 filiform, exserted, glabrous or nearly so ; stigma fusiform clavate or 

 globose, entire or rarely 2-3-lobed ; ovules solitary, inserted on small 

 fleshy placentas ascending from the base of the ovary, amphitro- 

 pous, subreniform. Fruit somewhat fleshy, pea-shaped, 1 -celled, 

 1-seeded ; endocarp chartaceous. Seed globose, filling the cell ; hilum 

 basal ; testa thin ; albumen horny deeply ruminated ; embryo terete, 

 elongated, curved, cotyledons linear, radicle inferior. — Scandent 

 shrubs with opposite patent branches, opposite leaves, apiculate entire 

 or cleft stipules from a broad base, and rather small white bracteolate 

 hermaphrodite flowers, capitate, arranged in brachiate terminal panicles 

 or corymbose. 



A genus containing one species from Madagascar and the follo"wing. 



Stipules 3-6-cleft and — setose. 



Calyx-lobes subulate 1. i?. rufipilis. 



Calyx-lobes orate 2. i?. parviflora. 



Stipules apiculate, entire. 



Flowers pentamerous (rarely hexamerous). 

 Corolla hairy outside. 



Branches shortly tomentose. 



Style glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, beneath 

 with conspicuous hairy tufts in the axils of 



the lateral veins 3. /?. oUmtr'rha. 



Style thinly pubescent about the middle. Leaver 



