Mussenda. | LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). 71 
into a white oval acuminate stalked, more or less hairy lamina 3-4 in. 
long. Corolla densely hirsute outside ; lobes acuminate; throat pilose. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! 
May prove to be M. rufa, A. Rich. in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 246 (1834). 
12. ME. luteola, Delile Cent. Pl. Afr. Oailliaud, p. 65, t.1, £1, 
excl. syn. (1826); non Hochst. A closely branched shrub; branches 
at an acute angle, pubescent towards the apex. Bark stringy. Leaves 
ovate or oval, subacuminate, obtuse or wedge-shaped and mostly 
oblique at the base, shortly and appressedly pubescent at least on the 
veins beneath, 1-3 by 3~-14 in. or those of the abbreviated lateral 
branches smaller; lateral veins about 6—7 on each side of the midrib ; 
rtiary veins inconspicuous; petiole very short. Stipules sabulate. 
Flowers abont 1 in. long, subsessile and shortly pedicellate, in rigid 
terminal cymes. Calyx pubescent; tube oblong, about 4, in. long, 
afterwards longer ; teeth filiform, r? in. long, caducous, subequal or 
one produced into a pale lemon-coloured oval or rotund apiculate 
nearly glabrous stalked lamina 1-1} in. long ; stalk $-1in. long. Corolla 
ranary-yellow, sweet-scented ; tube narrow, cylindrical, pubescent; 
limb about 4 in. diameter; throat hispid-tomentose ; lobes ovate 
Candate-acuminate. Fruit oblong, hispidulous or glabrate, about } in. 
long, at length dehiscing loculicidally.—Mussenda, n. sp., T. Thoms. 
i Speke Journ., App. p. 636; Vignaudia luteola, Schweinf. in 
Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 282 (1867). 
Wile Land. Nubia, Singué, Cailliaud; White Nile, Petherick! Gani and 
Madi, Speke and Grant! Mittu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
16. PAURIDIANTHA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. p. 69. 
Calyx-tnbe campanulate or hemispherical; limb small, broad, 5- 
joothed, Persistent. Corolla suburceolate, hairy at the throat, 5-cleft ; 
‘Obes ovate, subobtuse, reflexed, valvate in estivation. Stamens 4, 
‘nserted near the throat of the corolla ; filaments short; anthers 
shortly oblong, subexserted. Disk forming a thick cushion-like ring. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style robust ; stigma oblong obscurely 2-lobed ; ovules 
numerous, Fruit globose, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds small.—A 
nearly glabrous leafy shrub with slender branches, opposite sabmem- 
Tanous leaves, interpetiolar subulate stipules and minute nearly 
solitary axillary flowers. 
A monotypic genus. 
1. P. canthiifolia, Hook. f. in Benth. et. Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
ke Height 12-15 feet. Hcmohes strigose-puberulous shore. 
b ves elliptical, acuminate, glabrous, wedge-shaped at the base, 1-24 
7 in.; petiole y— in. Peduncles short, puberulous. Calyx 
dct. corolla light red. Fruit: } in. diameter, glabrous, apparently 
mt. 
Upper Guinea. Firnando Po Island, Mann! 
