70 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). { Mussenda. 
scarlet, shortly pedicellate in pedunculate cymes. Calyx hispid ; tube 
short ; lobes linear, subobtuse, 4-4 in. long, persistent, subequal or one 
occasionally subfoliaceous. Corolla-tube 2-1 in. long, densely hirsute 
outside, salver-shaped ; limb spreading, 14-2} in. diameter, red within 
with a yellow-hairy throat, pale yellow or orange-coloured outside ; 
lobes rounded, apiculate. Fruit egg-shaped, 2 in. long, not or ob- 
scurely ribbed.—Gardenia coccinea, G. Don! in Edinb. Phil. Journ. x1. 
p. 343 (1824). Bertiera coccinea, G. Don! Gen. Syst. iii. p. 506. 
M. discolor, Thonn. ex DC. Prod. iv. p. 372, non Pet.-Th. 
Upper Guinea. Widely spread. 
North Central. Monbuttu land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! 
9. 3.2 heinsioides, Hiern. Branches subterete or obtusely 
quadrangular ; shoots opposite, erect-patent, hispid with bairs directed 
forward. Leaves oval, acuminate, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped 
at the base, chartaceons, glabrate above except the midrib, somewhat 
hairy on the veins beneath, sparingly ciliate, 24 by 1-2 in. ; petiole 
yy-¢ in. long, hispid with forward hairs; lateral veins about 6-8 
pairs, rather slender; tertiary veins oblique; stipules subulate, 2 
together or bipartite, about im. long. Flowers about 3 together in 
terminal cymes; peduncle and pedicels about } in. long in fruit. 
Calyx-lobes linear-spathulate, } in. long, enlarging to 3 in fruit. 
Fruit ovoid, terete, sparingly hispid, about 8 in. long, exclusive of the 
persistent calyx-segments. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
10. M.? platyphylla, Hiern. Puberulous. Branches roundedly 
and unequally 4-sided, sulcate ; branchlets spreading. Leaves broadly 
ovate, subacuminate, broad near the suddenly narrowed base, shortly 
pubescent at least on the veins, firmly chartaceous, 83-8 by 2-54 in.; 
petiole ranging up to 1 in. or more; margins broadly reflexed; 
lateral veins about 12; stipules broadly ovate, about 4 in. long, obtuse. 
Berries ovoid, 3-3 by 8-4 in., 10-ribbed, not quite glabrous, crowned by 
the five linear-subulate puberulous calyx-lobes which are ?-3 in. 
long, subsessile, in terminal corymbose cymes. Seeds numerous, 
obtusely angular, not minute. 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth! 
ll. M. grandiflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 392. Shoots 
clothed with deflexed-patent ferruginous pilose hairs. Leaves oval, 
acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, very shortly petiolate, 
sparingly strigose, pubescent and darker above, 3-4 by 14-2 in.; 
lateral veins 10-13 on each side of the midrib, hispid beneath. 
Stipules geminate, linear-lanceolate, pilose on the back and margins, 
glabrous within, recurved, caducous, about.44 in. long. Flowers 
dense, sessile or subsessile in pedunculate cymes ; bracts linear, acute, 
about equalling the stipules. Calyx densely clothed with ferruginous 
pilose hairs ; tube small; lobes elliptical, much acuminate, herbaceous or 
perhaps coloured, } by } in., subequal or in some flowers one produced 
