240 EXX. RUBiACEJi (hiern). [^Spermacoce. 



4-3, subulate, equal, as long as the ovary, shorter than the fruit, not 

 quite glabrous. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx-teeth ; lobes 2-3. 

 Capsule J in. long, puberulous towards the apex. — Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. ^thiop. p. 139. 



irile Xiand. Cordofan, Kotschy .' in sandy places ; Abyssinia, Ehrenberg. 



17. S. grlobosa, Schum. et Thonn. Beshr. Guin. Fl. p. 73, non Pohl. A 

 small glabrous erect much branched under-shrub, 2-3 feet high. Branch- 

 lets 4-sided, often with abbreviated shoots in the axils. Leaves oblanceo- 

 late or narrowly elliptical, obtuse or somewhat pointed, attenuate at the 

 base, subsessile or quasi-petiolate, f-2J in., lateral veins inconspicuous ; 

 stipules truncate, short, 3-7- setose, setae about as long as the connate 

 portion. Flowers small, white, capitate, subsessile, numerous, in 

 terminal and subterminal globose sessile clusters of ^— J in. diameter, 

 based by the reflexed or obsolete pair of uppermost leaves. Calyx 

 glabrous or nearly so ; teeth 2, glabrous, clavate, not longer than the 

 ovary, the two other teeth minute ; tube minutely ciliate. Corolla-tube 

 very short. Anthers oval-oblong, shortly exserted. Style glabrous, 

 bifid at the tip; lobes arching. — Bigelovia verticillata, Spr. in Sieber, 

 PI. Seneg. exsicc. n. 10. Borreria Kohautiana, Cham, et Schlecht. in 

 Linnsea iii. p. 311 (1828) ; DC. Prodr. iv. p. 541. Spermacoce verti- 

 cillata, Linn. Sp. PI., edit, i., p. 102, part. Spermacoce verticillis glo- 

 bosis, Dill. Hort. Eltham. p. 369, t. 277, f. 358 (1732). 



ITpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelim! Th. Vogel! ; Cape Coast, Brass; 

 Senegambia, Boivin! Bidjem! DoUinger ! Sieber! Brunner! ; Grand Bassa, Th. 

 Vogel ! Gambia, fide Dillenitcs 1. c. Volta, Thonning. 



Xttozamb. Dlstr. East Coast of Africa, Forbes! 



Occurs also in the Cape de Verde Islands, &c. 



The following species remain unknown to me. 



8. phgllocephala, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 553. 



Iffortb Central t Kouma and Walo, Perroftet et Leprieur. 



T Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don ! (a specimen in fruit in Hb. Mus. 

 Brit., referred to the neighbourhood of this species by Bentham in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 p. 423.) 



S. galeopsidis, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 554. 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia, at Dagana, in sandy places. 



S. chrptocepha/a, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 554. 



ITortli Central. At Bakel, in sandy places, Leprieur. 



Nile Xiand. Ronga, White Nile, Binder (/3. brevifolia, Kotschy PI. Binder, p. 6). 

 This species should be compared with S. KoUchyana. 



73. HYPODEMATITTM, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 348 (1847). 



Characters of Spermacoce, in which it is included by Bentham and 

 Hooker, Gen. PI. ii. p. 145, except that the fruit bursts round the 

 base and splits up from the base into 2 cocci, remaining entire at the 

 apex. 



A monotypic genus, peculiar to this Flora. 



1. K. spliaerostigrma, .4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i.^.^4B. A branched 

 or subsimple erect or decumbent annual weed, ranging up to 2J feet 

 high ; branches sparingly hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaves lanceolate 



