98 LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). [| Randia. 
shortly acuminate, attenuate at the base, subcoriaceous, glossy, 9-12 
by 3-44 in., upper oues usually three together, lateral veins about 
12-13 pairs; petiole 4-3 in.; stipules short. Flowers solitary, drooping, 
quasi-axillary, 9 in. long, on robust recurved peduncles of 1 in. ; brac- 
teoles minute. Calyx oblong, about 1 in., glabrous outside, hairy 
inside, 5-angled; tube half the length; lobes subulate-prolonged. 
Corolla obsoletely tomentose outside ; tube straight, narrow, campanu- 
late above; limb 2-24 in. diam. ; lobes ovate, obtuse, dextrorsely con- 
torted in the bud (as seen inside). Anthers included or nearly so. 
Stigma club-shaped. nearly included. Fruit egy-shaped or fusiform, 
34-6 by 14-2 in., terete, smooth. 
Upper Guinea. Muni River, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
_ dl. RB. malleifera, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 89. A 
puberulous shrub of 8-15 feet or a small tree. Leaves obovate or 
oval, acuminate, wedge-shaped or rarely obtuse at the base, thinly 
coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, sometimes three together, 44-9 by 
2-4 in., lateral veins about 9-10. pairs, usually slender; petiole 
8-2 in. ; stipules small, deltoid, acuminate. Flowers solitary, terminal, 
often terminating short lateral branches, about 6—7 in. long, fra- 
grant, on a short bracteate peduncle. Calyx 14-2 in. long, tawny, 
pubescent ; tube oblong ; lobes narrowly linear, erect, about half the 
length of the calyx. Corolla shortly and closely hairy outside, tawny; 
tube narrow-cylindrical, curved, funnel-shaped above; limb white, 
2-4 in. diam.; lobes ovate, obtuse, dextrorsely contorted in bud (as 
seen inside). Anthers sessile, nearly included, 1-12 in. long. Stigma 
exserted, clapper-shaped, large, 14-24 in. long, white except the yel- 
low stigmatic upper part. Fruit globose, 14-1} in. diam., of a greenish 
ashy colour, obsoletely 5-angled.— Gardenia malleifera, Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 4307 ; Rothmannia malleifera, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 384, 
Gardenia Whitfieldi, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, sub t. 47. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! and others; Senegambia, Heudelot! 
809, Rio Nunez, fide Jardin Herb. Cot. Occ. Afr. pp. 15, 16 (G. Whitefieldiana) ; 
Niger Expedition, Barter! Bagroo River, Mann! Gaboon River, Mann! 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth! 
Mile Land. Bongo-land, Schweinfurth! Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
Dr. Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, i. p.199: ‘... . The blippo (Gardenia matlei- 
fera), with the inky-sap of which the Niam-niam and the Monbuttoo delight to dy? 
themselves.’ See also vol. ii. pp. 104, 119, 
Schweinfurth’s specimen in the British Museum (No. 1877) consists of some de- 
tached flowers and a sterile branch bearing alternate exstipulate leaves. 
Jardin, Herb. Cot. Oce. Afr. p. 15 (1851) gives Gardenia Rothmannia, Linn. f. 
from the Rio Nunez, Senegambia, where he states that it is abundant ; the plant 10 
tended may be Randia malleifera, Benth. et Hook. f. 
12, BR. octomera, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 89. 4 
hirsute-pubescent shrub. Leaves oval or oblong, acutely acuminate, 
ternate or opposite, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the base, subses- 
sile, 2-43 by 3-1? in., lateral nerves about 12 pairs, inconspicuous; 
stipules ovate cuspidate, about 4 in. long. Flowers solitary, 
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