Morinda. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). ° 193 
veoh Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth, sap milky; native name 
“ bogga.” 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land; at Furu, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
There are two states or varieties of this plant, one with puberulous ovary, the 
other with glabrous ovary ; the latter seems to be confined to Fernando Po. 
61. PSYCHOTRIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 123 
(excl. Grumilea ; incl. CHASALIA, Commers., Benth. et Hook. 
f. lie. 126.) , 
Calyx usually small; limb shortly cup-shaped, subtrancate or 
toothed or lobed. Corolla fannel- or salver-shaped or cylindrical, 
short or rather elongated, usually 5- rarely 6- or 4-lobed ; tube straight 
or curved; throat usually bearded ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, rarely 
appendaged at the back, valvate in ewstivation. Stamens equal in 
number to the lobes of the corolla, included or exserted, inserted on 
the throat, glabrous ; anthers linear or oblong, fixed at the back rather 
above the base ; filaments short or nearly as long as the anthers. Disk 
cushion-shaped or elevated, undivided or sulcate-lobed, glabrous. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, bifid bidentate or nearly entire, glabrous 
or somewhat hairy, included or exserted ; ovules solitary, compressed, 
Smooth, erect ; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit subglobose or ovoid, 
Sometimes subdidymous; pyrenes 2, or by abortion solitary, usually 
ribb don the back. Seeds costate or sulcate; albumen uniform, 
radicle inferior.Shrubs or small trees with opposite or verticillate 
“ves, undivided or dentate or cleft stipules and small cymose herma- 
cc flowers arranged in terminal or rarely axillary panicles or 
8. 
A large genus occurring throughout the tropics, very numerously represented in 
€rica ; all our Species, except P. obtusifolia, Poir., appear to be endemic. 
Flowers usually straight and funnel-shaped or shortly 
cylindrical, 3,-2 in. long. 
Tacts and bracteoles minute or obsolete. 
Owers tetramerous (is one species few, 4-5-merous) J. TerramMEerz. 
Owers numerous, pentamerous or occasionally 
examerous. 
Inflorescence paniculate, not in solitary dense 
heads . 2. 2... he) Panicunar. 
B Inflorescence small, dense, subeapitate. . . Ti. ConFERTIFLOR #. 
Fi Tacts or bracteoles, or both, present, not minute . . IV. . BRACTEATE. 
wers usually curved and salver-shaped, }-l in. long . V. CHasazia. 
I. TeTRAMER. 
Corolla-lobes without appendages. 
nflorescence pedunculate. Branchlets without longi- 
tudinal ridges. 
Anthers exserted. 
nflorescence consisting of few 4-5-merous flowers. 1. 
Inflorescence consisting of many 4-merous flowers. 2. 
thers included or nearly so. : 
ves 24-6 in. long; lateral veins about 8-9 pairs; 
VOL. um. tertiary veins inconspicuous. 6 
P, pauridiantha, 
P. brachyantha. 
