Grumilea.] lxx. rubiacejb (hiern). 219 



^1 in. long, tricuspidate at the tip. Flowers snlplinr- coloured, about 

 ^ in. long, subsessile, many together, crowded in terminal simple or 

 branched capitate cymes ; bracteoles minute or absent ; common 

 peduncle about 1 in., erect, robust. Calyx puberulous ; limb short, 

 obscurely toothed. . Corolla-lobes 5 ; tube straight. Style bidentate. 

 Berry didymous, depresso-globose, vaguely ribbed, -^ in. diameter, 

 2- celled, 2-seeded. Albumen apparently ruminated. 



XJile Xiand. Niamniam-land, near Bendo, 6chweinfurth / near Maschirr Hills, 

 Sckweinfurth / 



63. TRIAINOLEPIS, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. p. 126. 



Calyx- tube campanulate; limb cup-shaped, unequally 5-7- toothed; 

 teeth subulate, persistent. Corolla woolly-tomentose ; tube slender, 

 exceeding the calyx, glabrous inside, throat densely bearded ; lobes 5, 

 lanceolate, spreading, woolly outside, glabrous inside, valvate in aesti- 

 vation. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla, glabrous ; 

 anthers oblong, dorsifixed, partly exserted ; filaments short. Disk 

 hemispherical, hairy. Ovary 5-7- celled ; style glabrous, exserted, 

 filiform, with 5-7 lobes at the apex ; ovules solitary erect, compressed, 

 anatropous ; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit pisiform, 5-7-ceUed ; 

 pyrenes bony, 1-seeded. Seeds compressed, erect ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons small ; radicle terete, inferior. — Branches 

 woody terete; leaves opposite; stipules small tricuspidate ; flowers i-ather 

 small hermaphrodite in terminal corymbose cymes. 



A genus comprising the two following species and confined to this Flora and to 

 Madagascar, unless indeed, as seems probable, it ought to be united with Psathura, 

 Poir. 



Style with linear lobes, not capitate. Leaves pubescent 



beneath l» T. africana. 



Style capitate-lobulate at the apex. Leaves nearly gla- • 



brous 2. T. Hildebrandtii. 



1. T. africana, Mooh. f. in Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 126. 

 Much branched, young parts pubescent; branches reddish. Leaves 

 ovate or nearly elliptical, acuminate or acute, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, chartaceous, puberulous above, appressedly pubescent beneath, 

 2^-4 by 1-1| in., lateral veins about 10-12 pairs, slender ; petiole 

 ;Jy-f in. long ; stipules about J in. long, teeth filiform glabrous. Flowers 

 f in. long ; limb f-^ in. diameter. 



nXozamb. Dlstr. Rovuma Bay, 10° S. Lat., Kirk ! 



2. T. Hildebrandtii, Vafke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxv. p. 230 

 (1875). A nearly glabrescent shrub, 6-7 feet high. Leaves narrowly 

 ovate or elHptical, narrowed at both ends, firmly chartaceous, nearly 

 glabrous above, rather hairy in the axils of the 9-10 pairs of lateral 

 veins, 2-4 by -^-l in. ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules ^— J in. long. Flowers 

 i in. long, white. Ovary 7-6-celled ; style capitate-lobulate. Fruit red. 



IMCozamb. Bistr. Zanzibar Island, in sandy places, Hildehrandt f 

 Occurs also in North West Madagascar {PervUli /). 



