Ce;phaeUs.'] Lxx. eubiace^ (hiern). 223 



nearly dry or fleshy ; pyrenes smooth or ribbed. Seeds solitary ; radicle 

 inferior. — Small shiTibs with opposite leaves, ample nsually bidentate 

 stipules and rather small flowers crowded in terminal and axillary 

 pedunculate or rarely sessile involucrate heads. 



A considerable tropical genus, chiefly American. According to the usual prin- 

 ciples of nomenclature, one of the names of Aublet, quoted by Bentham and Hooker, 

 ought to be employed for this genus in preference to Swartz's ; a stUl older name 

 however, is Ouragoga, Linn. Gen. PL, edit. 1., p. 378 (1737). 

 Flower heads pedunculate. 

 Ovary 2-celled. 



Calyx regularly toothed or lobed. 



Corolla much exceeding the calyx opening. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so \. C. pedimcularis. 



Leaves scattered with hairs along the midrib and 

 veins beneath. 

 Heads solitary. Corolla-lobes not cornuate . . 2. C. sttaveolens. 

 Heads corymbose. Corolla-lobes cornuate at 



the back 3, C cornuta. 



Corolla about equalling the calyx, opening. 

 Leaves glabrate, obtuse at the base ..... 4. C. fuscescens. 

 Leaves scabrid-hirsute, wedge-shaped at the base . 5. C. rubescens. 

 Corolla shorter than the calyx, calyptriform ... 6. C. clausa. 



.Calyx slit down one side 7. C. spathacea. 



Ovary 3-4-celled. 



Calyx-limb cylindrical, 5-6-cleft, ciliate 8. C. Mannii. 



Calyx-limb hemispherical, dentate, puberulous ... 9. C latifolia. 

 Flower-heads sessile 10. C. congensis. 



1. C. peduncularis, Salisb. Farad. Lond. t. 99 (1808). A 

 branching shrub of 2-8 feet, sometimes creeping, or a small tree. 

 Branches somewhat thickened at the nodes and compressed towards 

 the extremities. Leaves oval or somewhat obovate, shortly or scarcely 

 acuminate, obtuse or narrov/ed at the base, spreading, coriaceous, 

 glabrous or nearly so, 3-9 by l|-3^ in., lateral veins about 13-17 

 pairs; petiole ^1 in. long; stipules broadly oval or ovate, bifid, 

 ^J in. long, puberulous at the back near the base, whitish-green, 

 deciduous, leaving a ring of hairs on the branch at the base. Flowers 

 l^entamerous, J-^ in. long, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, crowded 

 many together, in globose pedunculate terminal or subterminal heads 

 of about 1 in. diameter ; common peduncle puberulous or glabrate, 

 I 4 ' 5^ in. long ; outer bracts involucrate, connate at the base, about 

 J in. long ; inner small. Calyx green ; limb shortly lobed or toothed, 

 ciliate or glabrous, much shorter* than the corolla. Corolla white ; 

 tube slender below ; limb shorter. Fruit yellow, ellipsoidal, ribbed, 

 J in. long ; albumen a little ruminated. — C. pedunculata, G. Don, Gren. 

 Syst. iii. p. 605 ; C. c(yiiacea^ G. Don, /.c. p. 606 ; G. hidentata, Benth. 

 in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 421, ex parte, non Thunb ; Morlnda palmetorum. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. p. 448 ; Perr. & Leprieur ex A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. 

 Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 211 (1834). 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur aiid Perrottet, Dollivgcr ! Heudelot r 

 Cape Palmas, Th. Vogel ! Sierra Ltone, Smeathman! A/celius ! G. Bon.' Fernando 

 Po, Barter! Mann ! Prince's Isjand, Barter ! Bugroo River, Mann! 



Xiower Guinea. Loango, Soyaux ! 



