ACTX. 
CEPHAELIS PEDUNCULARIS. 
Long-pedunculed Cephaéls. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Rubiacex. Juss. Gen. p. 196. 
* Sect. x. Flores aggregati supra receptaculum commune, rarius coadunati. Arbores aut Frutices, ra- 
rius Herbe. Folia opposita. ‘ 
Pericarpium succulentum, 2-loculare, non dehiscens. Calyx varie 5-fidus, nunc hyalinus. Corolle 
Tubus superne ventricosulus, fauce antheris barbdque clausus : Limbus crassus, 5-partitus ; laci- 
niis in cunabulis convergentibus, dorso apicis plus minus corniculatis. Anthere 5, supra medi 
tubi subsessiles. Nectarium callosum, varie lobatum, Semen 1 in singulis loculis, fundo sessile. 
Frutices sempervirentes. Caulis infra articulos tumidus. Folia sepius lanceolata. Stipule plus minus 
in vaginam intrapetiolurem confluentes, 2-fide, basi intus calloso-pilose. Flores terminales, Capitulo 
densissime racemoso. Bractee coadunate, varie incise, persistentes. 
C. foliorum laminis lanceolatis, glabris: stipulis carinatis: capitulo longe pedunculato: bracteis ex- 
terioribus repando-dentatis: calyce barbigero: corollz laciniis dorso corniculatis, 
Sponte nascentem: in Sierra Leon, legit H. SMEATHMAN. 
Floret apud nos Januario, Februario. 
This plant approaches nearer to Cephaélis, than any other genus in Jussreu’s 10th section of Ru- 
biacee, some of which have been injudiciously united by SCHREBER and WILLDENOW, ose 
decr 1 
BLET’s names might be barbarous, his genera were determined by one, whose authority in this branch 
to that of Livne himself. Numerus 4-narus and 
genus of Rubiacee, in which Order that difference alone 
ought to lead us to inquire for others more material. Accordingly, Patabea, exclusive 0 number, 
will be found to differ from Cephaélis in wstivation, the divisions of its limb being imbricated lateral- 
»: Evea most widely from both, not only in habit, its branches being supraaxillary like those of 
Gardenia, but in stipulation and the insertion of its filaments: Carapichea rees stil) less than either 
of the former plants with Cephaélis, having long projecting filaments with very short anthers. 
Stem of our specimen, which was communicated by Madame La ComTesst DE VANDES, not 
2 feet high, erect, round, somewhat swelled below the joints, which for as 
ere smooth: Leaves 
nee 
; late, very enti Srecng esmagan 
ae nent underneath. Stipules whitish green, very large but 
on both surfaces ; midrib broad and prominent ee nts, below the d harply 
hairs especially upon the ribs. resembling the stipules, but the bottom ones more road 
dentate, gradually smaller till scarcely any traces of them remain under the pei etd the mag 
ral number being one to each branch and pedicel. Pedicels whitish green, 5 @ long, rou 
green, scarcely a line long, obovate, ‘smooth. 
1 line long, broad-funnel-shaped, divided nearly to the middle 
e - hairs. 
jot SO ; fe HL a 
points into a thick blunt horn, smooth, convex 
Corolla white, aes 2 lines long: Tube transparen ’ jong as the tube, 5-partite ; its divisions 
ovate-lanceolate, very entire, projecting behind their h, 
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