Oldenlandia. ] LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 65 
_ Cienkowsky ! Cordofan, Kotschy! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! Djur-land, 
Schweinfurth ! 
Occurs also, according to Boissier, Fl. Or. iii. 11, in Upper Egypt, Lenkoran, ete. 
EXCLUDED AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
Oldenlandia pentandra, Retz. Fasc. Obs. Bot. iv. p. 22, n. 64 (1786); Schum. et 
Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 83, is Vahlia Oldenlandie, DC. 
Oldenlandia umbellata, Linn. is given by De Candolle, Prod. iv. p. 426, as perhaps 
anative of Joel in Senegambia from a specimen gathered by Perrottet; it is also 
ae as from the district of the Gaboon River by Edélestan Jardin, Herb. Cot. Occ. 
-p.3 
Oldenlandia biflora and O. stricta are also given by E. Jardin from the Gaboon. 
14. HEKISTOCARPA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. ii. 62. 
Calyx-tube campanulate-oblong; teeth 5 ovate small persistent. 
orolla funnel-shaped, glabrous inside except the pilose throat; limb 
rather small, 5-lobed ; lobes widely ovate, obtuse, reduplicate-valvate 
in bud. Stamens 5, inserted below the throat of the corolla; anthers 
oblong,. sessile, obtuse. Disk shallow. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, 
terminated by 2 spathulate spreading branches; ovules numerous, in 
ene row in each cell, ascending. Fruit small, crustaceous, oblong, ob- 
tuse at both ends, somewhat compressed transversely to the septum, 
few-seeded, “ septicidally separable into 2 tardily dehiscent cocci.”’— 
A wiry, somewhat strigose herb, with elongated terete patent branches, 
anceolate stipules, opposite membranous leaves, and axillary inflores- 
cence with small secund flowers and minute setaceous bracteoles. 
A monotypic genus. 
1. H. minutifora, Hook. f. Ic. Pl.t. 1151. 4-5 ft. high. Sti- 
2-3 in. long, at length reflexed, ciliate with a few long hairs. 
Aves elliptical or obovate, acuminate at both ends, shortly petiolate, 
he: Scattered hairs on both surfaces and ou the margin; 3-6 by 1-2 
dich lowers 4 in. long, sessile on the secund spicate branches of 
Hie otomous axillary inflorescences, which attain to about half the 
®ngth of the leaves. Fruit zo} in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar River, Mann! 
15. MUSSHNDA, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 64. 
or wily oblong turbinate or ovoid; limb 5-lobed, lobes usually linear 
dia ulate, in some species short rounded or elliptical, persistent or 
certair ons, green or coloured, subequal or in most species one lobe in 
Corel rer produced into a stalked, coloured, large, dilated lamina. 
8p -tube cylindrical or narrowly funnel-shaped; limb 5-lobed, 
Someti 8, regular, hairy at the throat; lobes usually acuminate, 
the a rounded, valvate in mestivation. Stamens 5, inserted near 
lineay roat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers narrowly 
You. Pas isk annular or tumid. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, divided 
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