112 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Amaralia. 
33. AMARALIA, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 90. 
Calyx-tube turbinate at base, shortly produced above the ovary, 
thickened and silky inside ; limb ample, hemispherical or campanulate, 
5-partite, persistent ; lobes oval, obtuse, coriaceous, sinistrorsely con- 
torted (as seen from inside) in bud. Corolla campanulate, funnel- 
shaped at base, exceeding the calyx, coriaceous, silky outside, glabrous 
inside except the densely pilose constriction near the base; lobes 5, 
rounded, short, reflected, contorted dextrorsely in estivation. Stamens 
5, included, inserted on the corolla-throat; anthers sessile, linear, 
rather thick, fixed at the back above the base. Ovary 2-celled (or, by 
failure of meeting of the two placentas, 1-celled); style clavate, 
sulcate; stigma white, not without difficulty separable into 2 parts; 
ovules numerous, immersed in vertical rows in the two placentas. 
Fruit oblong, many-seeded ; seeds reticulated.—A scandent unarmed 
shrub or a tree with subsarmentose branches, opposite evergreen leaves, 
oblong obtuse stipules and rather large axillary solitary or geminate 
flowers. 
A monotypic genus. 
1. A. bignonieeflora, Welw. ex Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
ii, p. 91. Puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves elliptical oval or oval- 
oblong, more or less acuminate, wedge-shaped, rounded or cordate at 
the base, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, 2-9 by 3-44 in., lateral 
veins about 6-8 pairs, not conspicuous above; petiole ranging up to 
% in.; stipules caducous, 3-3 in. long, leaving a hairy line above the 
scar. Flowers 1-2? in. long, fleshy-coriaceous, rigid, purplish; pe 
duncles }~1 in. long; pedicels when present } in. ; bracteoles ovate. 
Calyx-limb ?-1 in. long. Corolla white outside and purple inside, or 
orange-coloured variegated with purple. Anthers } in. long. Fruit 
3-4 in. long, 14-14 in. thick, red.—Gardenia bignonicflora, Welw. 
Apont. p. 585, n. 13 (1859); G. calycina, G. Don! Gen. Syst. i. 
p. 497, “flowers pale red;” G. Sherbournie, Hook. Bot. Mag. t- 
4044; Randia Doniana, Benth.! in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 385; R. Sher- 
bornie, Hook. Niger Fl. p. 385. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! and others. 
North Central. Monbuttu-Land, Schweinfurth ! 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Welwitsch! 
34. MORELIA, A. Rich. ex DC, Prodr. iv. p. 617 (1830), et 
in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 282 (1834). 
Calyx-tube campanulate ; limb cup-shaped, subtruncate, 5-toothed, 
persistent. Corolla-tube short, rather exceeding the calyx, cylindrical ; 
throat bearded ; lobes 5, spreading, oval, longer than the tube, dex- 
trorsely contorted in sstivation (as seen from inside). Stamens 5 
inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, exserted, glabrous ; anthers 
limear, shortly apiculate, basifixed; filaments very short. Disk 
depressed, inconspicuous. Ovary 4-celled ; style fusiform, undivided, 
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