68 LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). [ Musseenda. 
crisped hairs ; lobes ovate, not acuminate. Fruit ellipsoidal, 4 in. long 
or more. 
Upper Guinea. 1° N. Lat. Mount John River, Kongui. Mann! 
4, IM. stenocarpa, Hiern. A small shrub, hispidulous towards 
the extremities. Leaves oval,shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped and often 
oblique at the base, 4-5} by 14-2 in., or the uppermost ones smaller, 
sparingly hispidulous-strigillose above, hispidulous on the veins 
beneath; lateral veins about 7 on each side of the midrib, at about 
45° with it; tertiary veins transverse and in various directions, not 
conspicuous ; petiole }-1 in. Stipules bicuspidate, about } in. long. 
Flowers about 14 in. long, shortly pedicellate, in rather dense tricho- 
tomous corymbose cymes. Calyx shortly and appressedly hairy or 
subglabrate, narrowly turbinate, 2-1 in. long; teeth subulate, about 
i in. long, one sometimes produced into a stalked, yellow? 5-nerved, 
roundly oval lamina, 2 by 14 in., stalk 14 in. Corolla-tube narrowly 
cylindrical, puberulous or nearly glabrous ; limb } in. diameter, yellow; 
throat hispid-tomentose ; lobes oval, apiculate. Fruit oblong, ob- 
scurely 10-ribbed, 3—? by } in. 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, near Munsa, Schweinfurth ! 
5. Mf. arcuata, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Méth. iv. p. 392. A 
shrub of climbing or voluble habit, about 6-8 ft. high, usually 
glabrate. Branches subterete, reddish or glaucescent, sometimes 
shortly hispid-pubescent above. Leaves ovate or eiliptical, narrowly 
acuminate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, glabrous or nearly so 
or hispidulous on the veins and margins, paler beneath, veiny, 1-6 by 
19-24 in.; lateral veins 5-7 on each side of the midrib; tertiary veins 
transverse ; petiole 7,-} in. Stipules bipartite or tripartite or cleft, 
mostly glabrate and reflexed, caducous and usually leaving a more or 
less hairy rim above their scar; partitions lanceolate or subulate, }-3 
in. long. Flowers 1-1} in. long, shortly pedicellate, in lax terminal 
panicles having spreading or arching branches or peduncles. Calyx 
glabrous or sparingly hispidulous; tube turbinate-oblong or oblong, 
¢-} in. long; teeth linear or subulate, equalling or rather shorter than 
the tube, lengthening with it in fruit, sabequal or occasionally one pro- 
duced into a white dilated acuminate lamina, 1-14 in. long, caducous. 
Corolla-tube elongate-fannel-shaped, glabrous outside, usually curved ; 
limb }-1 in. diameter, yellow, tomentose with crisped hairs at the 
orange or purplish throat; lobes oval or ovate, not acuminate. Fruit 
subglobose or ellipsoidal, 3-3 in. long, fleshy, glabrous.—Luandia stelli- 
gera et L. astrographa, Commerson ex DC. Prod. iv. p. 372. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! Niger, Nupe, Barter / 
Wile Land. Djurland, Schweinfurth! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! Bongo- 
land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch! Cazengo, Welwitsch! 
Preirace Distr. Manganja Hills, H. Waller! alt. 3000 ft.; near Kankanje 
irk! 
Occurs also in Mauritius and Madagascar. 
