Funtumia.] Lxxxiv. apocyxace.e (staff). 10:> 



Schlechter, 12596. Lake Leopold II, District ; Kutu Jball, Kiri XAXey, Bolle ! 

 Delhez Mission, Delhez ! near Lusarabo, on the River Sankuru, Luja ! 



IVCozamb. ]>ist. Zanzibar: Dunga Estate, Lijne ! German East Africa: 

 Usambara; Lutindi, Eolst, 3380! Derema, Scheffler, 17G ! 



This species does not seem to ^ield any serviceable rubber. 



33. MASCABBNHASIA, A. DC. ; Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. Pi. ii. 721. 



Calyx small, herbaceous, multiglandular inside the base ; sepals 

 almost free, imbricate, ovate or oblong. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 cylindric, generally suddenly constricted below the insertion of the 

 stamens, mouth naked ; lobes 5, oblong, induplicate-valvate, straight or 

 twisted in bud. Stamens inserted near the mouth or at or below the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, sagittate, appendages as long as or longer than 

 the polliniferoua part, tailed ; foot of the connective glabrous, chan- 

 nelled above, with a tongue-shaped projection from the middle, hairv 

 below. Disc large, tubular or cup-sha,ped, shortly o-lobed or divided 

 into 5 glands, 4 of which are connate in pairs. Carpels 2, free, exserted 

 from or shorter than the disc ; style filiform ; stigma oblong or cylindric 

 with a papillose rim, at the base and a minute bifid apiculus, tightly 

 attached to the foot of the connective ; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. 

 Mericarps follicular, linear, slender, div.'tricate. Seeds linear-oblong, 

 rather obtuse at both ends with an apical coma ; endosperm scanty or 

 ; cotyledons linear or oblong, slightly undulate in cross section ; 

 radicle cylindric. — Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite ; axillary 

 stipules ; axillary glands obscure. Flowers usually conspicuous, 

 pink or purple, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles, terminal or pseudo- 

 axillary. 



Species 12-15, all but 2 in Madagascar. 



Leaves niirnnvly oblong, 3J-5i in. long, 4-!^ in. 

 broad; corolla up to 8 lin. long; disc slightly 5- 

 lobed . . . . . . . . L M. variegaia. 



Leaves oblong, 3-10 in. long, 1^—2^ in. broad ; corolla 

 up to 6 liii. long; disc of 5 glands, di>tinct or 

 connate in pairs . . . . . . 2. 31. elasiica. 



1. M. variegata, Britten <l- Rendle in Trans. JAnn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. iv. 26, t. \i.Jigs. 1-3. — A glabrous shrub ; branches terete, pallid. 

 Leaves narrowly oblong, obtuse or obscurely acuminate, acute at the 

 base, 3^-5j in. long, f-l^ in. bn^ad, coriaceous, glaucous, at least when 

 mature ; secondary nerves about 8 on each side, very faint ; petiole 

 2-3 lin. long. Cymes few-flowered or reduced to a single flower, sub- 

 sessile ; bracts minute; pedicel 2-3 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long; seg- 

 ments ovate, subacute. Corolla-tube constricted at the middle, 4-5 lin. 

 long; lobes ovate, acuminate, 3 lin. long, densely villous within. Disc 



