Morelia. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 113 
glabrous ; stigma exserted, sulcate ; ovules 2-4 together, impressed on 
the fleshy placentas. Fruit globose, 4-(—3) celled, rather fleshy ; cells sub- 
chartaceous inside; seeds mostly 2 together, one on each side of a 
placenta that projects into the cell, sub-compressed ; testa thin; embryo 
curved, nearly half the compass of the seed.—A shrub with subterete 
_ branches, opposite petiolate chartaceous or thinly coriaceous leaves, 
deciduous stipules connate at the base, and rather small flowers in 
axillary corymbs. 
An endemic genus, merged by Bentham and Hooker into Randia. 
1. M. senegalensis, A. Rich. ex DC. Prod. iv. p. 617, et in Mém. 
Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 232 (1834). An evergreen shrub of 12-30 
ft., often arborescent and producing aérial roots, nearly glabrate. 
Leaves oval or oblong, more or less acuminate, somewhat narrowed at 
base, thinly coriaceous, 24-7 by 1-84 in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; 
petiole 8-3 in.; stipules ovate, ciliolate. Flowers 4-4 in. long, white 
or purplish outside, fragrant, on short pedicels, many together in 
corymbose or hemispherical axillary cymes of 2-3 in. Calyx turbinate- 
campanulate, 3-1 in. long, puberulous or glabrate; limb subtruncate, 
with 5 short broad teeth. Corolla-tube equalling or exceeding the 
calyx; throat hairy ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 3-4 in. long, spreading or 
reflexed. Stamens exserted; anthers $ in. long. Fruit green, 4 in. 
diameter, 4-3-celled. Seeds 4 in. long or rather more.—Kotschy et 
Peyr. Pl. Tinn. p. 31, t. 14; Randia (sp.), Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ii. p. 89. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur! and Perrottet, Heudelot! Aboh, 
Th. Vogel! Sierra Leone, G. Don ! Nupe, Barter! Old Calabar River, Mann! 
Wile Land. Djur-land, Heuglin, Schweinfurth! Bongo-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Bahr-el-Abiad, fide Schweinf. and Aschers. Enum. p- 282. 
Used to intoxicate fish. 
35. ZYGOON, Hiern. 
Calyx small; tube campanulate-turbinate, bracteolate towards the 
©; limb short, 5-lobed; lobes ovate or rounded, whitish, puberulo- 
Searious, open in gstivation. Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous outside 
m nearly so ; tube short, exceeding the calyx, bearded abont the throat; 
obes 5, spreading, oval, obtuse, bearded at the base inside, longer than 
the tube, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from inside) in estivation. 
Stamens 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla between its lobes, 
weed 5 filaments short, not quite glabrous ; anthers linear, glabrous, 
thet as long as the corolla-lobes and spreading with them, fixed at 
€ back a little above the base. Disk fleshy, annular, glabrous. 
vary 2-celled ; ovules 2-3 together, collateral, compressed, pendulous 
hae the apex; placentas small; style exserted, stoutly filiform, gla- 
‘ as or thinly pubescent below the middle, about twice the length of 
a &xpanded flower, subfusiform above, undivided or bidentate at the 
Fruit unknown.—A small shrab with whitish terete branches, 
atta elliptical shortly petiolate rather velvety leaves, ovate, 
Yor “acuminate, undivided, rather small stipules, and white, 
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