500 LXIX, RUBIACEA, [Anthospermum 
ternate, rather slender, usually virgate, somewhat woody sub- 
terete and sub-glabrate below, puberulous with very short dense 
thick whitish hairs on a reddish bark above ; middle internodes 
about equalling the spreading leaves ; upper internodes gradually 
shorter and not as long as the leaves ; leaves verticillate 3 together 
or opposite, with very abbreviated leafy branchlets in the axils 
giving the leaves a fasciculate appearance, spathulate-linear or 
very narrowly so in consequence of the margins being broadly 
revolute towards the midrib, apiculate at the apex, narrowed 
gradually towards the sessile or sub-sessile base, glabrous or very 
nearly so, rigid, spreading, 1-nerved, 3 to 13 in. long; stipules 
adnate to and uniting in a short sheath ‘the leaf-bases or short 
petioles, truncate and uni-cuspidate or lanceolate-linear from a 
broad sub-truncate base, minutely puberulous outside, sub- 
persistent ; flowers apparently unisexual; female flowers tetra- 
merous, sessile or sub-sessile ; calyx-limb very small, with incon- 
spicuous teeth ; corolla salver-shaped, very small, sub-persistent ; 
the tube slender, glabrous, about =; in. long ; the lobes scattered 
with a few hairs at the back, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, valvate 
in the bud, induplicately so at the apex, longer than the tube, 
reflexed in open flower ; stamens 4, exserted, glabrous ; anthers 
rather small, effete ; filaments filiform, inserted about the mouth 
of the corolla-tube ; style puberulous, shortly exserted, 2-lobed at 
the apex, filiform ; fruit dicoccous, dry, puberulous, 4, in. long. 
Male flowers unknown. 
Hoiiia.—In thin forests near Eme ; female fl. and young fr. end of 
March and beginning of April 1860. No. 5339. In the Panda forests 
about Eme ; female fi. and ripe fr. end of April 1860. No. 5340. 
3. A. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A robust suffruticose herb ; stem erect, reddish, glabrate, closely 
branched, | to 2 ft. high or more ; branches spreading at an angle 
of about 45° with the stem, puberulous towards the extremities, 
densely leafy ; leaves sub-linear or sub-spathulate, apiculate at the 
apex, narrowed gradually to the sub-sessile base, uni-nerved at 
the base, glabrous or very nearly so, minutely or obsoletely scaly 
especially beneath, rigid, opposite, with abbreviated leafy branch- 
lets in the axils giving the leaves a fasciculate appearance, 3 to 
1 in. long, margins revolute ; stipules truncate, 3- to 5-cuspidate, 
joining the very short petioles or leaf-bases; flowers sub-sessile, 
tetramerous, whitish, small; calyx-limb green, quadripartite ; the 
segments lanceolate or subulate, shorter than the corolla-tube in 
the male flowers, glabrous; corolla of the male flowers funnel- 
shaped ; the lobes lanceolate, twice as long as the tube, valvate in 
the bud, spreading in full flower ; stamens 4, glabrous ; anthers 
ellipsoidal-oblong ; cells 2, separated at the base for some distance 
up to the point of attachment of the filament at the back; 
filaments slender, filamentous, inserted about the middle of the 
corolla-tube ; style elongated, slender, puberulous, bifid at the apex. 
Huri.a.—In wooded thickets of the Panda forests, near Eme; male 
fl, April 1860. No. 5335. 
