40 Lxx. KUBiACEiE (hiern). [Adina. 



1. A. microcephala, Hiern. A shrub with quite glabrous branches. 

 Leaves lanceolate, whorled in fours, 4-6 by 1-1 :J in., gradually 

 narrowed into the petiole, glossy when young ; stipules interpetiolar 

 separating in a ring with 4 teeth. Common peduncle rather slender, 

 longer than the petioles, axillary, bracteate in the middle ; bract 

 caducous, of 2-4 connate parts. Flowers iV"^ '^^' l<^^oi sessile ; re- 

 ceptacle hairy; paleae spathulate, hairy. Calyx 5-fid. Corolla 

 pubescent, 5-lobed ; limb ^^ in. diam. Stamens 5. Stigma glabrous, 

 globose. — Nauclea microcephala^ Del. Cent. PI. Mer. p. Q7, n. 54 

 (1826) ; DC. Prodr. iv. p. 345 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. p. 138, 

 n. 709 (1867). 



Wile Xiand. Sennaar, at Singue, Cailliaud ; Fesoghlu, Cimkowsky. 



3. MITBAGYNE, Korth. Obs. Naucl. Ind. p. 19 (1839), non Br. 

 {Stephegyne^ Korth. ; Benth et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. ii. p. 31.) 



Flowers crowded in compact globose heads with paleaceous bracteoles 

 at the base. Calyx-tubes contiguous, obconical, with a short free 

 glabrous rim, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed, without appendages. 

 Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvate in asstivation. 

 Stamens 5, glabrous * inserted at or near the mouth of the corolla ; 

 filaments short; anthers lanceolate-oblong. Disk annular. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform, exserted ; stigma oblong or subcapitate ; ovules 

 numerous. Fruit di-coccous. Seeds numerous, small, winged at both 

 ends. — Trees or shrubs with subterete or obtusely quadrangular 

 branchlets, opposite subcoriaceous leaves, interpetiolar fugacious 

 stipules, and solitary or cymose heads of white or yellow flowers. 

 A small genus found also in Tropical Asia, 



Flowering heads solitary. Corolla glabrous outside, bearded 



at the throat. Anthers included, erect \. M. africana. 



Flowering heads cymose. Corolla-limb hairy outside, glabrous 



at the throat, anthers exserted, drooping 2. M. inacrophylla. 



1. M. africana, Korth. Obs. Naucl. Ind. p. 19 (1839). Rang- 

 ing in size from a bush of 6 ft. to a tree of 20-40 ft. Glabrous 

 or somewhat pubescent. Leaves ovate-elliptical, obtusely acuminate 

 or narrowed at the apex, rounded or excavated or obtusely wedge 

 shaped at the base, with Q-7 glabrous or sparingly pubescent veins on 

 each side of the midrib, 2-4 by |-2 in., on petiole of ^— f in. ; stipules 

 lanceolate-oblong or ovate, obtuse sheathing coloured ^1 in. long 

 fugacious. Flowering heads solitary, subsessile or pedunculate, about 

 1 in. diam. Corolla white, turning yellow, fragrant, glabrous 

 outside, throat bearded, about ^ in. long ; lobes obtuse. Anthers 

 just exserted, drooping. Stigma red. — Uncaria inermis, Willd. in 

 Usteri Delect, ii. p. 199, t. 3 (1793). Nauclea africana, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 i. p. 929 (1797) ; DC. Prodr. iv. p. 345, (1830) ; non Cham, et Schlecht. 

 in Linnaea iv. p. 148 (1829) nee Walp. N. platanocarpa, Planch. 

 {Platanocarpum africanum Hook, f.) in Hook. Ic. t. 787. Stephegyne 

 africana, Walp. Repert. ii. p. 513. Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 380, t. 37. 

 Cephalanthus africamis, Reichenb. in Sieber PI. exs. Seneg. n. 20 ! 



Vpper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning, Isert ; Sierra Leone, Afzelim! Don! 



