204 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [PsycJiotria. 



ends, venose, shortly petiolate, green on both sides, in the dry specimens 

 dark green above pale green below, 1-1^ in. long ; stipules interpetiolar, 

 ovate, acute, persistent, J in. long. Corymbs fastigiate, axillary and 

 terminal ; peduncles bifid, many flowered ; bracts sublanceolate, acute, 

 minute, at the forks, dark purplish. Calyx minute, obsoletely or 

 obtusely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular ; tube cylindrical, rather curved 

 inwards, nearly ^ in. long ; lobes 5, ovate, rather acute. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, according to Schumacher, where the natives call it 

 " Kolly-tjo." 



In the British Museum there is a specimen from Cape Coast collected by Brass, 

 which agrees with the above description except that the leaves are scarcely venose, 

 the stipules are mostly deciduous, the corymbs are terminal (1 in. diam.) and tricho- 

 tomously branched. 



26. P. Senthamiana, Hieni. A glabrous shinmg shrub of 

 moderate size. Branches weak, terete, towards the extremities com- 

 pressed. Leaves elliptical, subacuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 chartaceous, 2-3 by f-lj in., margins very narrowly revolute, lateral 

 veins about 6 pairs, inconspicuous ; petiole ^— f in. long ; stipules short, 

 ovate, connate at the base, apiculate, undivided, tV~8 ^- ^^^g- blowers 

 pentamerous, about ^ in. long, crowded in trichotomously branched 

 terminal or subtenninal pedunculate corymbose cymes of about 1 in. 

 diameter ; common peduncle about 1 in. long ; bracts minute or obsolete 

 or occasionally one foliaceous pair present. Calyx-hmb very short, 

 truncate. Berry (immature) globose, smooth, ^ in. diameter, green. — 

 Chasalia parviflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 417. 



TTpper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Voget ! 



27. P. owariensis, A. L. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. vi. p. 379 

 (1820). A small glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, 

 attenuate at both ends, shortly petiolate, 3-7 by 1-2^ in., lateral veins 

 about 13-14 paii-s ; stipules caducous, undivided ? Flowers ^ in. long, 

 white ; pedicels 2-3 -flowered ; corymbs terminal, 2-2 J in. diameter, 

 rather lax ; bracteoles subulate. Calyx-limb 5-dentate. Corolla nar- 

 rowly funnel-shaped; limb 5-partite, reflexed. Stamens 5. Berry 

 rough, ^ in. long or rather more, ribbed. — Hylaciwm owarien$e, Palisot 

 de Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. 84, t, 113. 



upper Guinea. Deserts in the interior of the kingdom of "Warree, Beauvois. 



A specimen with chartaceous shining leaves and terete branches compressed 

 above, may belong to this species ; it was gathered by Mann in the island of Fer- 

 nando Fo. 



28. P. Brassii, Hiern. Glabrous. Branches dark green in the 

 dry state, compressed and subherbaceous at the extremities, somewhat 

 constricted at the nodes. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, thinly chartaceous, dark green above, rather paler and 

 glistening beneath, 3J-7 by 1^2f in., margins nearly flat, lateral 

 veins about 10 pairs, slender, tertiary veins slender, rather conspicuous 

 beneath ; petiole about | in, ; stipules ovate, apiculate, ^ in. long, 

 apparently entire. Flowers on very short pedicels, several together, in 

 little clusters on terminal (and subterminal) trichotomous subcorymbose 



