Musseenda. | LXX. RUBIACEA (HIERN). 67 
stalked lamina, 24-4 in. long. Corolla-tube cylindrical, clothed with 
reflexed hairs; limb small; lobes rounded. Fruit ellipsoidal (when 
fully ripe), 1-1} in. long, obscurely ribbed, hispidulous.—Hasskarl, 
Retzia i. p. 37, (1855). . 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! G. Don! H. Smeathman! Barter! 
Winwood Reade! Abdh, Th. Vogel ! 
Lower Guinea. South of the Line, Curror/ 
2. M. Isertiana, DO. Prod. iv. p. 371. A climbing or bushy 
shrub of 6-15 ft. Branches terete and glabrate, or at the apex 
sub-quadrangular and puberulous. Leaves oval, shortly and suddenly 
acuminate, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, 
mostly glabrate except the veins which especially beneath are often 
hispidulous ; 4-8 by 2-4 in., upper ones smaller ; lateral veins 6-7 on 
each side of the midrib; tertiary veins numerous, slender, parallel, 
somewhat curving ; petiole 4-4 in. Stipules short, deltoid, undivided 
or bipartite, at first shortly hairy, at length glabrate and recurved or 
Gucous. Flowers 14-14 in. long, subsessile, crowded in dense _ter- 
minal and sub-terminal pedunculate cymes ; peduncles 4-2 in, Calyx 
shortly and appressedly hairy, about 4 in. long; limb hemispherical, 
5-cleft, wider than the tube ; lobes deltoid, subequal or sometimes one 
lobe produced into a white, rounded, apiculate, subglabrous, stalked 
amina, 1-21 in. long. Corolla tubular, yellow, appressedly and closely 
puberulous (or rarely obsoletely so) outside ; limb }-4 in. diameter ; 
throat woolly ; lobes ovate. Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrous, §—3 in. long, 
hot ribbed.— macrophylla, Schum. et Vahl. in Schum. et Thonn. 
Pl. Guin. p. 118, non Wall. 
g “Pper Guinea. Whydah, Slave Coast, Isert; Sierra Leone (7h. Vogel !), 
2 ! Abbeok ta, : ! Ni Expediti t Lagos Island, Parr? Cameroon 
River, Manns outa, Irving iger Expedition at Lag 
nt B.? laxiflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 898. Leaves pilose, more hairy. 
Tuts few, 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! 
shrub, ¥- glabriflora. Flowers glabrous or very nearly so, fragrant. A subseandent 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition at Brass, Barter ! 
hi 3. ME. polita, Hiern. A glabrous, shining, climbing shrub, 20 ft. 
'gh. Branches straight, terete, reddish. Leaves elliptical, candate- 
laninate, wedge-shaped at the base, spreading, 3-4 by 1-1} in.; 
seral veins 4,0n each side of the midrib; tertiary veins transverse, 
the poximated, delicate ; petiole }-} in. Stipules undivided (or bipar- 
), glabrous, narrowly linear from a broad base, 4-4 in. long, 
“ducous, leaving a more or less hairy rim above the scar. Flowers 
in. long, shortly pedicellate in rather lax terminal panicles 
oblon= SPreading branches or peduncles. Calyx glabrous; tube 
ane indistinctly 10-ribbed, +4 in. long; teeth ve short, one 
in mu Produced into a white ? stalked, dilated lamina, 2}~3} by §-14 
ont: _— about in. Corolla-tube elongate, straight, slender, glabrous 
‘de; limb 4 in. diameter, yellow; throat densely hairy with 
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