Musseenda. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 69 
6. M. tenuiflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 392, (1849). 
A subscandent shrub of 8-10 ft. or more. Leaves oval, shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, 
hispid, paler beneath, 14-6 by 1-31 in. ; lateral veins 8-10 on each side 
of the midrib ; tertiary veins oblique; petiole 4-1 in. Stipules ovate 
or lanceolate, acute, hispid, usually bipartite, sometimes bifid. Flowers 
1-1} in. long, subsessile, crowded in pedunculate or branched terminal 
or subterminal cymes, Calyx hispid; tube short in flower; teeth 
filiform or subulate, persistent, }—-} in. long, subequal or one produced 
into a white, dilated, somewhat hairy, caudate-apiculate, stalked la- 
mina, 2-4 in. long. Corolla shortly and appressedly hispid outside ; 
tube green outside, slender, cylindrical; limb about 4-4 in. diameter, 
yellow ; throat closed with yellow hairs; lobes ovate, spreading, 
acuminate. Fruit ellipsoidal, 4-3 in. long, hispid or puberulous, 
crowned by the subulate calyx-teeth. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 7h. Vogel! Barter! Mann! Old Calabar, Rev. 
W.C. Thomson! Dr. Robb! 
7. ME erythrophylla, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. p. 116. A 
small shrub of a few feet or climbing to 30-40 ft. Shoots softly 
pubescent. Leaves ovate, sharply acuminate, wedge-shaped or rounded 
at the base, membranous, hispidulous especially on the veins, paler anc 
Sometimes subtomentose beneath, 2-7 by 1-4 in.; lateral veins abou, 
10 on each side of the midrib; tertiary veins oblique; petiole }-2 in. 
Stipules ovate or lanceolate, about 2 in. long, bifid, usually reflexed 
and glabrous inside. Flowers 1-1} in. long, shortly pedicellate and 
subsessile, in dense pedunculate cymes. Calyx-tube 4-4 in. long, 
densely hirsute, obovoid ; lobes red, lanceolate, hirsute, 4-4 in. long, 
subequal or one produced into a bright vermilion, subrotund, abruptly 
acuminate, softly pilose, spreading, stalked lamina, 2-43 in. long. 
Corclla-tube cylindrical, densely hirsute with reddish hairs; limb }-3 
in. diameter ; throat bearded; lobes rounded, apiculate, white or 
yellowish inside. Fruit egg-shaped, 2-1 in. long, hirsute with reddish 
hairs, mostly crowned by the calyx-lobes.—M. fulgens, R. Br. ex Tedlie 
in Bowdich, Mission, p. 374, name only (1819). M. splendida, Welw. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxvii. p. 36, t. 13. 
Upper Guinea. i J j cade! Ashantee, Tedlie! 
Cameroon Mountains, aynanim, Thonning, Winwood R 
Wile x. Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower aug Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! ; 
uinea. Angola, Monteiro! Welwitsch! Loango, Soyaur! 
m : M. elegans, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. p- 117. A 
neh branched shrub, half or fully scandent, 5-10 ft. high or more. 
: cots subterete, hispid-pubescent. Leaves oval, acuminate, wedge- 
i ped or obtuse at the base, hispidulous especially on the veins 
st ed, membranous, 1-44 by 4-21 in.; lateral veins 9-11 on each 
ide of the midrib ; tertiary veins curving; petiole y5~1y'5 In. Stipules 
8Nceolate or subulate, geminate or bipartite, bairy. Flowers bright 
