RUBIACE.^ (H. F. Wernham) 39 



GAMOPETALiE. 



By H. F. Weenham, B.Sc. ; excepting Compositse, 

 Asclepiadacese (Loganiacege (in part) ), and Acan- 

 thaceae, by Spencer Moore, F.L.S. ; and Convol- 

 vulacese, by Dr. A. B. Eendle, F.E.S. 



RUBIACE^. 



This family is the most numerously represented in the whole 

 collection, and some valuable additions — in the way both of rare 

 species already described and of novelties — have been made. 

 There are 35 new species, and of these six belong to four new 

 genera — Afrohamelia, Dorothea, Diplosporoims, Globulostylis — the 

 two latter including each two species. Afrohamelia is interesting 

 as being nearly related to Hamelia, a genus confined to the tropics 

 of the New World ; and its morphology is particularly curious. 

 The bracts are large and foliaceous, the inflorescences appearing 

 to arise from the middle of the stalk, to which the peduncle is 

 adnate ; the leaves are almost exactly similar, but much smaller. 

 Dorothea, a near ally of Eandia, is especially interesting for its 

 zygomorphic flowers — a rare feature in this family. Sabicea has 

 yielded as many as four very distinct new species. Bandia 

 Tidbotii has large showy flowers 2| decimetres long. Coffea 

 Talbotii is a curious new species which I have assigned to this 

 genus only after considerable hesitation ; the fruit is a red 

 fusiform berry, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb. 



Cremaspora Thomsoni Hiern. Hiern's description (Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. iii. 126) seems to have been based on immature flowers; 

 the Talbot specimen (n. 1049) affords excellent material. The 

 corolla-tube is 7 mm. and the lobes 6 mm. long, and the fruit, 

 hitherto unavailable, is 1*5 cm. long. 



Coffea subeordata Hiern. The corolla-lobes and stamens are 

 much larger than stated in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 184, but the Talbot 

 plant (n. 243) is otherwise identical with the type, and agrees 

 with the original description in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. II. i. 174. 



Cephaelis Mannii Hiern n. 154. The peduncles are several 

 feet long, instead of about 1 foot, as known from previous 

 specimens. 



