MussoPAida.'] Lxx. iiumACE.« (hiern). (^7 



stalked lamina, 2J-4 in. long. Corolla-tube cylindrical, clothed with 

 reflexed hairs; limb small; lobes roanded. Fruit ellipsoidal (when 

 fully ripe), 1-lJ in. long, obscurely ribbed, hispidulons. — Hasskarl, 

 Retzia i. p. 37, (1855). 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelvus! G. Don! H. Smeatkman ! Barter! 

 Winwood Eeade ! Aboh, Th. Vogel ! 

 XiO\irer Guinea. South of the Line, Curror ! 



2. ZH. Zsertlana, DC. Prod. iv. p. 371. A climbing or bushy 

 shrub of 6-15 ft. Branches terete and glabrate, or at the apex 

 sub- quadrangular and puberulous. Leaves ovul, shortly and suddenly 

 acuminate, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, 

 mostly glabrate except the veins which especially beneath are often 

 hispidulons ; 4-8 by 2-4 in., upper ones smaller ; lateral veins Q>-7 on 

 each side of the midrib ; tertiary veins numerous, slender, parallel, 

 somewhat curving ; petiole \-^ in. Stipules short, deltoid, undivided 

 or bipartite, at first shortly hairy, at length glabrate and recurved or 

 caducous. Flowers 1^— If in. long, subsessile, crowded in dense ter- 

 minal and sub-terminal pedunculate cymes ; peduncles ^2 in. Calyx 

 shortly and appressedly hairy, about ^ in. long ; limb hemispherical, 

 5-cleft, wider than the tube ; lobes deltoid, subequal or sometimes one 

 lobe produced into a white, rounded, apiculate, subglabrous, stalked 

 lamina, 1-2^ in. long. Corolla tubular, yellow, appressedly and closely 

 puberulous (or rarely obsoletely so) outside ; limb ^— | in. diameter ; 

 throat woolly ; lobes ovate. Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrous, |— | in. long, 

 not ribbed. — M, macrophylla, Schum. et V^ahl. in Schum. et Thonn. 

 PI. Guin. p. 118, non Wall. 



ITpper Guinea. Whydah, Slave Coi\ Bt, Isert ; Sierra Leone (Th. Vogel!), 

 G. Don! Abbeokouta, Irving ! Niger Expedition at Lagos Island, Barter! Cameroon 

 River, Mann! 



Var. ^.1 laxijiora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 393. Leaves pilose, more hairy. 

 Fruits few. 



Vpper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! 



Var. 7. glahriflora. Flowers glabrous or very nearly so, fragrant. A subscandent 

 shrub. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition at Brass, Barter ! 



3. ZIX. polita, Hieifi'. A glabrous, shining, climbing shrub, 20 ft. 

 high. Branches straight, terete, reddish. Leaves elliptical, caudate- 

 acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, spreading, 3-4 by 1-1^ in. ; 

 lateral veins 4, on each side of the midrib ; tertiary veins transverse, 

 approximated, delicate ; petiole ^—^ in. Stipules undivided (or bipar- 

 tite?), glabrous, narrowly linear from a broad base, ^— J in. long, 

 caducous, leaving a more or less hairy rim above the scar. Flowera 

 1:J^-1^ in. long, shortly pedicellate in rather lax terminal panicles 

 having spreading branches or peduncles. Calyx glabrous ; tul)e 

 oblong, indistinctly 10-ribbed, ^-^ in. long ; teeth verv short, one 

 usually produced into a white ? stalked, dilated lamina, 2|-3^ by |-1^ 

 in., stalk about ^ in. Corolla-tube elongate, straight, slender, glabrous 

 outside ; limb ^J in. diameter, yellow ; throat densely hairy with 



