RUBiACEiE (H. r. Wernham) 43 



long; secondary lateral veins about 24 pairs. Stipules 2" 7-3 "4 cm. 

 long, 1 • 2-2 ■ 2 cm. wide. Fruiting 'pedicels about 5 mm. long. Calyx- 

 tube with ovary 4 mm., lobes nearly 1 cm. long. Corolla 1'5 cm., 

 lobes barely 1 mm. long. 



Near S. geantha Hiern, but differs in the habit, indumentum, the 

 longer calyx-lobes and the four-celled ovary. 



Sabieea Talbotii Weinham sp. nov. Frutex sarmentosus 

 ramulis strigosis ; foliis ellipticis supra scabrellis subtus sparsis- 

 sime nisi in venis densiuscule strigosis, petiole strigoso brevi ; 

 stipidis ovalibus pro genere inter minores ; florihus in capitulis 

 brevissime pedunculatis confertis ; bradeis paucis ovalibus involu- 

 crantibus basi connatis ; calycis limbo in laciniis brevibus lineari- 

 bus diviso ; corolla extus superne strigosa lobis brevibus angustis ; 

 ovario extus densissime cano-sericeo-hirsuto. 



Oban ; n. 2032. 



Leaves 8-9 x 3 '5-4 cm.; petiole up to 1 cm. Cajntida about 

 1 cm. in diameter. Calyx-lobes 3 mm. ; corolla 1 cm. long. 



Near S. capitellata Benth., but readily distinguished hy the indu- 

 mentum of the leaves and bracts, and the tendency to aggregation of 

 the capitula at the ends of the flowering shoots. 



AFROHAMELIA "Wernham, Hameliearum nov. gen. 



Calycis tubus bemisphaericus ; limbi lobi 5 brevissimi erecti 

 persistentes. Corolla subcampanulata, in alabastro oblongo acu- 

 minato plerumque costata, basi nee constricto, fauce glaberrima ; 

 limbi lobi 5, breves triangulares stricte contorti. Stamina 5, tube 

 corollae basin versus inserta, filamentis brevibus ; antherae 

 basifixae inclusae, anguste lineari-elongatae, basi bifidae. Discus 

 tumidus. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus breviusculus, stigmate 

 anguste fusiformi sulcato ; ovula in loculis perplurima, placentis 

 septo affixis inserta. Bacca magna oblonga utrinque angustata 

 disco tumido coronata 2-locularis polysperma. Semina minima, 

 valde rugosa et angulata, testa non sculpta. 



Arbores vel frutices saepius scandentes ramulis validiusculis. 

 Folia opposita petiolata, stipulis interpetiolaribus. Flores in 

 cymis abbreviatis paucifioris lateralibus quisque bractea magna 

 foliacea stipata dispositi. 



A very distinct genus, the nearest ally being the tropical American 

 Hamelia, from which this differs chiefly in the contorted aestivation 

 of the corolla and the large two-chambered oblong fruit ; the latter 

 recalls many species of Hamelia in the persistent and conspicuous 

 disc. The corollas in the two genera are very similar, both in bud 

 and in open flower ; but the characteristically ventricose base of the 

 tube in Hamelia is absent in our genus. The typically secund 

 arrangement of the flowers in the American genus does not occur in 

 the type of Afrohamelia ; and the large foliaceous bract subtending 

 each cyme is distinctive. 



