Otiophora | LXIX. RUBIACEA. 499 
43. OTIOPHORA Zuccar. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 137. 
1. 0. scabra Zuccar. in Abh. Akad. Muench. i. p. 316 (1832). 
Huiita.—An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high; stems and branches 
numerous, erect or ascending, sub-cylindrical below, sub-compressed 
above ; branches and leaves hairy, opposite, the latter at the same time 
with other leaves fasciculate in their axils, lanceolate, deep-green above, 
turning pallid beneath, with raised venation ; stipules connecting the 
petioles, 4- to 6-setose ; flowers cymulose-paniculate or corymbose, 
white, scarcely bracteolate ; calyx-tube adhering to the ovary, the 
limb 5-cleft, the segments very unequal, one much larger than the rest 
and foliaceous, erect, persistent ; corolla salver-shaped, milk-white ; the 
tube straight, but little dilated towards the throat, hairy inside ; the 
limb-segments 5, ovate, spreading in a stellate manner ; the throat 
very densely bearded with white hairs ; stamens 5, inserted below the 
corolla-throat, included ; anthers straight, linear, concealed amongst 
the hairs of the beard of the corolla-throat; ovary inferior, sub- 
compressed, 2-celled, crowned with a thin disk ; ovules solitary in the 
cells, rather fleshy ; style filiform, exserted ; stigma bilobed ; the lobes 
spreading horizontally, oblong, turning fuscous ; capsule turbinate, 
somewhat compressed, topped by the calyx-teeth, 2-celled, bluntl- 
beaked in the centre of the apex. In the drier thickets near Lopollo 
and around the lake of Ivantala in wooded situations in the direction 
of Quilengues, abundant; fl. and young fr. March 1860. No. 5329. 
A herb, suffrutescent at the base, scarcely 2 ft. high, branched from 
the base, stems angular, pilose, atro-purpureous, patently branched ; 
flowers azure-blue, sessile, arranged in terminal spikes ; calyx investing 
the ovary ; the limb 5-cleft, 4 of them very small, ciliolate-glandular, 
the fifth much larger, foliaceous ; corolla-tube long, slender ; the limb- 
segments 5, valvate in the bud, reflexed in the open flower ; stamens 5, 
exserted, on long filaments ; style filiform, deeply bifid or rather divided 
into 2 elongated linear-clavate stigmas. In sandy thickets about 
Lopollo and Humpata ; fl. Dec. 1859; fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5330. At 
Ferrdo da Sola; fl. and fr. beginning of April 1860. No. 5331. At 
Humpata ; fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5336. 
The flowers are dimorphic ; our specimens are not quite so pubescent 
or scabrid on the branchlets as in the type, and they are sometimes 
bifariously hairy on the branches. 
44, ANTHOSPERMUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 140. 
1. A. pachyrrhizum Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 229. 
A. hirsutum A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 346 (1847), non DC. ; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 401 (1892). 
Huitia.—A herb ; root thick, succulent, whitish, rather fleshy, 4 to 
7 in. long; leaves rigid, patent ; flowers pentamerous, rarely hexa- 
merous, axillary, clustered ; corolla campanulate, whitish-yellow ; the 
lobes of the limb ovate, acuminate. On plains and in neglected fields, 
near Lopollo, abundant ; female fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859, No. 5338. 
At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5337. 
Engler, loc. cit., retains A. Richard's name of this species, and thereby 
implicitly rejects that of De Candolle; the latter name, however, 
properly stands for the plant so named and characterized by Cruse, 
Rub. Cap. p. 8 (1825). 
2. A. ternatum Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect fruticose herb, 14 ft. high or more ; branches often 
