Randia. } LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 97 
Leaves elliptical or obovate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed at base, 14-5 
by §-23 in., chartaceous, the terminal ones often three together ; lateral 
veins about 5-6 pairs, slender, often with glands near the union with 
the midrib; petiole 3-4 in; stipules short, broad, ciliolate, caducous. 
Flowers solitary, terminal,often on short lateral branches, suberect, sessile 
or subsessile, 5-9 in. long, fragrant, bracteolate at base. Calyx oblong, 
4-1 in. long, glabrous, green; limb with 5 short ovate lanceolate or 
subulate teeth, or irregularly toothed, usually 5-ribbed above, lined 
with short pale hairs inside. Corolla-tube elongated, narrowly tubular, 
gradually funnel-shaped and 5-ribbed above, pubescent or puberulous 
outside, green or purple, cottony inside below ; limb spreading, 2-44 in. 
diam., white inside spotted with purple; lobes ovate, obtuse, widened 
above the base, puberulous inside, reflexing, 1-12 in. long, dex- 
trorsely contorted in bud; throat glabrous. Stamens and style 
included or partly exserted. Anthers sessile, about 1 in. long. Frnit 
oval or oblong or globose, pointed, 14-3 in. long.—Rothmannia longi- 
flora, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 65 (1807); Gardenia Stanleyana, Hook. 
ex Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 47; Bot. Mag. t. 4185; Rothmannia 
Stanleyana, Hook. Niger Fl. p. 383; Gardenia speciosa, A. Rich. in 
Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 240 (1834). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Whitfield! Afzelius! Cape Coast, Brass! Gam- 
bia, Capt. ° Boteler! Abbeokuta, Irving! Nupe, Barter! Fernando Po, Barier! 
Mann! 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth! 
9. R. macrantha, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 388. A climbing shrub, 
9-30 feet high, glabrous except puberulous veins on the lower surface 
of the leaves. Leaves oval or obovate-oblong, opposite, deciduons, 
crowded near the extremities of the branches, cuspidate or caudate at 
apex, narrowed at base, 24-8 by 4-34 in., lateral veins about 8-9 
pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 4-1 in.; stipules persistent, glumaceous, 
ovate or lanceolate, crowded at the extremities of the branches, obtuse, 
3-2 in. long. Flowers solitary, pentamerous, fragrant, terminal, often 
terminating short branchlets, erect, subsessile, 6-10 in. long. Calyx- 
tube oblong; lobes subfoliaceous, linear or linear-spathulate, spreading, 
+ in. long, persistent. Corolla-tube slender, cylindrical, green or 
yellowish; limb whitish 2-24 in. diam. ; lobes oval, obtuse, dextrorsely 
contorted in bud. Anthers and style partly exserted. Fruit globuse 
or somewhat pear-shaped, not ribbed, 1-1} in. diam.—R. longiflora, 
Salisb. ! Parad. Lond. t.93,non Lam.; Gardenia longiflora, Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, i. p. 368 (1810) ; @. macrantha, Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 
V. p. 237 (1819); G.? longifolia, G. Don! Gen. Syst. ii. p. 499 
(1834) ; R. Bowieana, A. Cunn. ex Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3409 (1835) ; 
G. Devoniana, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 63; Rothmannia Bowieana, 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 384; Euclinia, spec., Salisb. ex DC. lic. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Whitfield! Afzelius! Smeathman! 
Wilford! Cameroon Mountains, alt. 2-3,000 ft., Mann! Niger, Eppah, Barter! 
10. R. macrocarpa, Hiern. A smooth shrab 12-20 feet high, 
glabrons in most parts; branchlets subglaucous. Leaves oblanceolate, 
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