192 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Morinda, 
gular or subterete, compressed towards the extremities. Leaves oval 
shortly pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped or nearly rounded at the 
base, opposite or those opposite the peduncles often without the oppo- 
site leaves, lucid, chartaceous or slightly fleshy, ranging up to 9 in. 
long and 6 in. wide ; lateral veins about 6-8 pairs; petiole under 4 in. ; 
stipules rounded, foliaceous, ranging up to # in. diameter, connate at 
the base, caducous. Flowers about 4-1 in. long or more, usually pen- 
tamerous, sessile, 6-24 or more together in heads which in fruit range 
from }-1 in. diameter or more; common peduncles solitary or 2-3 
together, usually leaf-opposed, ranging up to 3 in., more or less com- 
pressed. Calyx green, truncate. Corolla thickly coriaceous, white, 
green, or greenish yellow; lobes ovate-lanceolate, scarcely acute.—M. 
quadrangularis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 545. M. lucida, Benth. in 
Hook. Niger Fl. 406, may be regarded as a variety with subterete 
branches and comparatively slender peduncles; it becomes a large 
tree; M. gemimata, DC. Prodr. iv. 447, may be a state with the 
lower surface of the leaves subpubescent. M. ? chrysorhiza, DC. Prodr. 
iv. 450 (Psychotria ? chrysorhiza, Thonn. in Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 
111) is apparently synonymous with this species. M. macrophylla, 
Desf. Cat. Hort. Par., ed. 3, p. 404. 
The Indian synonymy is not given. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Perrotiet and Leprieur; Guined,. 
Thonning Cape Coast, Brass! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! G. Don! Barter! (“Brim 
stone tree,” used for flooring, resists insects), Daniell ! (flowers May—July, Tolmgah 
or brimstone tree); Th. Vogel! Smeathman! (Rotomba Island), Kirk / Niger Expe- 
dition, at Onitsha, Barter! (used in dysentery and fever, astringent), at Nupe, Barter ! 
Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Barter ! (bitter and astringent, good in dysentery) ; Abbeo- 
kuta, Barter! Dr. Irving! Cameroons River and Bagroo River, Mann! (excellent 
wood, insects do not touch it), 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
Widely spread over the shores of Tropical Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Queens 
land; occurs also in the Seychelles Islands. 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, between Kapili and Kibali, Schweinfurth ! 
2. M. longiflora, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 545. A glabrous 
shrub, scandent or with pendulous branches, of 8-20 feet. Branches 
subterete, wiry, patent, rather supra-axillary, at the extremities some 
what compressed. Leaves opposite, oval, acuminate or cuspidate, 
wedge-shaped or nearly rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, Jucia, 
2-6 by 1-3 in.; lateral veins about 3-5 pairs, clearly marked below ; 
petiole 3-4 in., rather slender ; stipules short, broad, connate 4? 
sheathing. Flowers 1-2 in. long, 3-8 together, sessile ; heads ter- 
minal or terminating short lateral branches, sometimes overtopped by 
the axillary shoots; common peduncles solitary or two together; 
1} in. long, slender in flower, robust and expanded upwards in fruit. 
alyx green, glabrous or puberulous; limb cup-shaped, truncate or 
nearly so. Corolla white or copper-coloured; lobes 6, lanceolate 
Fruit 3-14 in. diameter, of deep orange colour. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! G. Don! Western Africa, Whitfield 
Niger Expedition, at Eppah, Barter! Bagroo River, Mann! Gaboon River, Mann 
Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Barter! Mann! 
