290 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ALABASTRA-~ DIVERSA.—Parr XVII. 
By Spencer te M. Moors, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
Tue plants dealt with in the present paper are mainly Ascle- 
jade@, an order rapidly being reinforced by new African species, 
this Journal. The opportunity has also been taken of including 
dese pes of a few new African plants belonging to other 
psy devi 
cnowlelpeenbts are due to Mr. N. E. Brown and t 
8. A. kas for kindly giving me the benefit of their peqiintense 
respectively with African Asclepiadee and Scrophulariacee. 
RuBIACER. 
Oxyanthus unyorensis, sp.nov. Fruticulosus, glaber, ramu- 
lis sat gracilibus juvenilibus aliquanto emg ee deinde sub- 
teretibus, foliis oblanceolato- se A sursum caudatis, apice ob- 
tusiusculi in versus in petiolum brevem shidlant attenuatis 
papyraceis costis secundariis utringue 5 aE oa mtg one 
ter bilobis filamentis brevibus insidentibus, ovario 2-loculari, stylo 
reviter exserto stigmate anguste clavato apice bifido coronato, 
bacca 
Hab. "Marchison Falls, Victoria Nile, Bagshawe, 1599. 
i -4:5 em. ru 
Fo jl 
long. ; petioli 4-7 mm. long. Stipule 7 mm. long. Corymbi 
(corollis exemptis) summum 1em.long. Bractew 3-4 mm. long., 
margine sub lente ciliolate. pore albi. Ovarium 3 mm., calycis 
limbus indivisus 2mm., lobi 3 mm. long. Corolla tubus 12-5 em. 
long., humectatus 2 mm. lat.; lo bi 25 x 15 mm. Filamenta 
gor mm., anthere 375 mm. long. Stylus 14 cm. long., stigma 
mm. 
a good deal like O. pallidus Hiern, which has larger 
coriaceous o ves not markedly caudate above, longer stipules 
running out more gradually into th acumen, longer and larger 
