Rutidea. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 191 
pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; petiole 4+} in. long; stipules solitary, 
entire, apiculate from a subtruncate base, j4—} in. Jong. Flowers 
tetramerous, 4 in. long (or rather more) when expanded, glabrous, 
slender, on very short glabrate pedicels, numerous, in dense terminal 
somewhat puberulous corymbs of about 2 in. diameter ; bracteoles 
small, puberulous, falling short of the calyx. Calyx ,; in. long; limb 
half-cleft ; lobes ovate. Corolla white with herbaceous apex (Rev. 
W. C. Thomson mss.), lobes oval, in. long. Style glabrous, exserted 
by } in.; stigma clavate-egg-shaped. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
10. R. fuscescens, Hiern. Hispidulous. Branches terete. 
Leaves ovate-elliptical, subacuminate, narrowed or rounded at the 
, chartaceous, turning blackish in the dry state, 141-3 by 3-12 in. ; 
lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, rather slender ; petiole 3g in.; stipules 
solitary, entire subulate, prolonged from a short broad base, 4-4 in. 
long. Flowers tetramerous, 4-3 in. long when expanded, on short 
hispidulous pedicels, in terminal subsessile dense corymbs of about 
3 in. diameter ; bracteoles narrow, falling short of the calyx-limb, his- 
pidulous. Calyx 44, in. long, hispidulous, limb half-cleft ; lobes 4, 
evate. Corolla glabrous throughout; lobes 4, broadly oval, yy in. 
long. Style glabrous, exserted by 43, in. ; stigma clavate-ovoid. 
Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa, at 2000 feet alt., Kirk / 
60. MORINDA, Vaill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 117. 
_ Calyx-tubes campanulate, connate at the base, confluent in fruit ; 
limb truncate or nearly so, persistent, not accrescent. Corolla salver- 
shaped, coriaceous ; tube rather slender; throat glabrous or somewhat 
tded ; lobes 5-6, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5-6, inserted at the 
throat of the corolla, glabrous, partly exserted ; anthers linear, fixed at 
the back near the middle; filaments short. Disk fleshy, cushion- 
shaped, glabrous. Ovary usually 4-celled, sometimes imperfectly so; 
style included or exserted, glabrous or pubescent, bifid ; ovules solitary, 
‘scending from the base of the septa, anatropous or amphitropous. 
_ "ult @ syncarpium, succulent ; seeds obovoid or reniform or folded on 
itself; testa membranous; albumen fleshy ; embryo often somewhat 
rurved, radicle inferior—Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, gla- 
deve or nearly so, with oval shortly petiolate leaves, intrapetiolar 
eciduons stipules connate at the base, and white or yellowish flowers 
Sessile in pedunculate ebracteolate heads. 
A considerable genus spread over the tropics of the world. 
eduncles axillary and terminal, often leaf-opposed. Flowers 
P Mostly pentamerous . . . . . 1 ee et 
eduncles terminal or terminating short lateral branches, . 
hot leaf-opposed. Flowers hexamerous . . . + + 2+ M. longiflora. 
1. me, citrifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. 176 (1753). A glabrous (or 
nearly glabrous) tree, pir Ryan of immense size. Branches quadran- 
1. M. ecitrifolia. 
