Oldenlandia.'] Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). 65 



Cienkowsky ! Cordofan, Kotschy ! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! Djur-land, 

 Schweinfurth ! 



Occurs also, according to Boissier, Fl. Or. iii. 11, in Upper Egypt, Lenkoran, etc. 



EXCLUDED AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Oldenlandia fentandra, Retz. Fasc. Obs. Bot. iv. p. 22, n. 64 (1786); Schum. et 

 Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. p. 83, is Vahlia Oldenlandia, DC. 



Oldenlandia umhellata, Linn, is given by De Candolle, Prod. iv. p. 426, as perhaps 

 a native of Joel in Senegambia from a specimen gathered by Perrottet ; it is also 

 given as from the district of the Gaboon River by Edelestan Jardin, Herb. Cot. Occ. 

 Afr. p. 3. 



Oldenlandia. bifiora and 0. stricta are also given by E. Jardin from the Gaboon. 



14. HEKISTOCAKPA, Hook, t in Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, ii. 62. 



Calyx-tube campanulate- oblong ; teeth 5 ovate small persistent. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous inside except the pilose throat ; limb 

 rather small, 5-lobed ; lobes widely ovate, obtuse, reduplicate- valvate 

 in bud. Stamens 5, inserted below the throat of the corolla ; anthers 

 oblong, sessile, obtuse. Disk shallow. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, 

 terminated by 2 spathulate spreading branches ; ovules numerous, in 

 one row in each cell, ascending. Fruit small, crustaceous, oblong, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, somewhat compressed transversely to the septum, 

 few-seeded, " septicidally separable into 2 tardily dehiscent cocci." — 

 A wiry, somewhat strigose herb, with elongated terete patent branches, 

 lanceolate stipules, opposite membranous leaves, and axillary inflores- 

 cence with small secund flowers and minute setaceous bracteoles. 

 A monotypic genus. 



1. K. mlnutlflora, Eooh. f. Ic. PI. t. 1151. 4-5 ft. high. Sti- 

 pules ^— I in. long, at length reflexed, ciliate with a few long hairs. 

 Leaves elliptical or obovate, acuminate at both ends, shortly petiolate, 

 with scattered hairs on both surfaces and on the margin ; 3-6 by 1-2 

 in. Flowers ^ in. long, sessile on the secund spicate branches of 

 dichotomous axillary inflorescences, which attain to about half the 

 length of the leaves. Fruit yV-^ in. long. 

 Upper Guinea. Old Calabar River, Mann I 



15. MUSS^NDA, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 64. 



Calyx oblong turbinate or ovoid ; limb 5-lobed, lobes usually linear 

 or subulate, in some species short rounded or elliptical, persistent or 

 deciduous, green or coloured, subequal or in most species one lobe in 

 certain flowers produced into a stalked, coloured, large, dilated lamina. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical or narrowly funnel-shaped; limb 5-lohed, 

 spreading, regular, hairy at the throat; lobes usually acuminate, 

 sometimes rounded, valvate in aestivation. Stamens 5, inserted near 

 the throat of the corolla ; filaments very short ; anthers narrowly 

 linear. Disk annular or tumid. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, divided 



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