224 Lxx. RUBUCEiB (hiern). [Gephaelis, 



Perhaps two species are here confused, but their separation is difficult ; in the type 

 of C. peduncularis the calyx-lobes are not very small and are ciliate, and in C. coriacea 

 the calyx -teeth are very small and quite glabrous, but intermediate forms appear to 

 exist. 



2. C^ suaveolens, ScJavelnf. mss. in herb. Au undershrub, 3-5 

 feet high ; young parts shortly tomentose and piiberulous. Leaves 

 oval, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, 6-9 by 

 3-4^ in., lateral veins about 18-20 pairs, marked with a few scatterea 

 hairs beneath ; petiole |^-| in. ; stipules broadly oval, connate at' the 

 base, bifid, puberulous outside, | in. long. Flowers pentamerous, white, 

 sweet-scented, shortly pedicellate, about ^ in. long, numerous, densely 

 packed in hemispherical dilated axillary subterminal pedunculate soli- 

 tary heads of about 1 in. diameter ; common peduncle subtomentose, 

 about 1^ in. long ; involucral bracts 4. Calyx-limb small, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube 4 times the length of the calyx-limb, " 10-striate " 

 (Schweinf. mss.). Ovary striate, 2-celled. Berry oval-globose. 

 '* 12-sulcate " (Schweinf. niiss.). 



irile £and. Djur-land, Schweinf xirth ! 



3. C. comuta, Hiern. Upper leaves obovate, cuspidate, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, membranous, glabrous above, puberulous beneath 

 along the midrib, 4^ by 2\ in., margins flat, lateral veins about 13 or 

 14 pairs, rather slender ; petiole \ in. long; stipules broad, ^ in. long, 

 shortly cleft, glabrous except the ciliolate margin. Flowers about 

 ^-| in. long, glabrous outside, subsessile, many together in heads of 

 ^-1 in. diameter which are arranged a few together in shortly rufous- 

 pubescent terminal pedunculate corymbs exceeding the upper leaves ; 

 peduncles of the general inflorescence 1^2-^ in. long ; involucral bracts 

 of the heads ovate and lanceolate, acuminate, falling short of the 

 flowers ; bracts of the general inflorescence, \-^ in. long, incise-cleft, 

 lobes acutely acuminate. Tube of the calyx-limb membranous, exceed- 

 ing the ovary ; lobes ovate, acute, short. Corolla much exceeding the 

 calyx, salver-shaped ; throat densely bearded ; lobes horned at the back 

 near the apex. Anthers exserted. Style exserted, puberulous and 

 bifid above ; divisions spreading. 



Vpper Guinea. Old Calabar, Dr. Rohb ! 



4. C. fuscescens, Hiern. A nearly glabrous shrub, about 5 feet 

 high. Leaves oval or somewhat obovate, shortly acuminate, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, thinly chartaceous, of nearly the same fuscous hue 

 on both surfaces, 8-9 by 4-4:^ in., lateral veins about 22 pairs ; petiole 

 •^1 in. long ; stipules ample, connate at the base bi-? cuspidate, \ in. 

 long. Flowers pentamerous, about f in, long, sessile, numerous, 

 crowded together in dense hemispherical terminal shortly pedunculate 

 heads of about 1 in. diameter ; common peduncle about \ in. long ; 

 involucral bracts ample, imbricated, inner bracts narrow ciliate. Calyx - 

 limb deeply lobed ; lobes narrowly linear, ciliate. Corolla rather ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled. Style exserted. 



npper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! 



