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stipules 0 or very obscure and joined into a fine rim across the stem; 
axillary glands scanty and fugacious. Flowers on slender pedicels in 
few- to many-flowered subsessile umbelliform terminal and pseudo- 
lateral inflorescences. 
Species about 16, 1 in tropical West Africa, the others in tropical America. 
1. M. Heudelotii, 4. DC. Prod. viii. 380. Perfectly glabrous ; 
branches terete, dark reddish-brown. Leaves oblong, acuminate, acute 
at the base, 34-54 in. long, 14-24 in. broad, thin, papery ; secondary 
nerves 7-9 on each side; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes few-flowered, 
subsessile; bracts very small; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin, long. 
Calyx 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla white; tube 5-54 
lin. long, with confluent tubercles at the mouth ; lobes oblong, acuminate 
or cuspidate, 44-5 lin. long, puberulous at the base. Disc 5-lobed. 
Anthers 14 lin. long. Follicles 7-10 in. long. Seeds 14-13 in. long, 
1} lin. broad, scantily pubescent at both ends, but chiefly at the upper 
subulate end.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 450. M. africana, K. Schum. 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 187. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 714! 890! French Guinea : 
Scarcies Valley ; near Sasseni, Scott-Elliot, 4430! 4524! near Bayabaya, Scott- 
Elliot, 4782! near Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4785! Sierra Leone: Kukuna, by the 
River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4242! 4626! Madina, Scott-Elliot, 5566 ! 
35. ALAFIA, Thouars; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. ii. 717. 
Calyx small, herbaceous; sepals 5, imbricate, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
alternating with small intracalycular glands. Corolla salver-shaped ; 
tube cylindric, slightly widened at or just below the middle, without 
scales or calli within ; mouth usually very narrow ; lobes 5, overlapping 
to the right. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments very short, flattened; anthers conniving in a cone, almost reach- 
ing to the mouth of the corolla or shortly exserted, linear to lanceolate, 
acute, sagittate ; appendages longer than the polliniferons part; tails 
Short ; foot of the connective with a hairy elongated cushion or a 
tongue-shaped projection. Disc 0. Carpels 2, free, short, very ob- 
tuse; style clavate-filiform, passing into the flask-shaped, shortly 
apiculate stigma which exudes glutinous matter below the constriction 
attaching it firmly to the foot of the connective ; ovules numerous, 
pluriseriate, Mericarps follicular, slightly spreading, slender, cylindric, 
Seeds linear-lanceolate with a deciduous apical coma ; embryo unknown. 
—Scandent shrubs with more or less fistularbranches. Leaves opposite, 
coriaceous ; secondary nerves rather distant. Flowers generally in 
many-flowered terminal or pseudo-axillary corymbs or pseudo-umbels or 
in few-flowered cymes, rarely solitary. 
Species about 12 in tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Flowers white in usually many-flowered corymbs, 
or yellow in few-flowered cymes. 
