68 Lxx. RUBiACE-j; (hiern). lMussai7ida. 



crisped hairs ; lobes ovate, not acuminate. Fruit ellipsoidal, ^ in. long 

 or more. 



Vpper Oulnea. 1° N. Lat. Mount John River, Kongui. Mann! 



4. ]MI. stenocarpa, Hiei'v. A small shrub, hispidulous towards 

 the extremities. Leaves oval, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped and often 

 oblique at the base, 4-5^ by 1^2 in., or the uppermost ones smaller, 

 sparingly hispidulous-strigillose above, hispidulous on the veins 

 beneath; lateral veins about 7 on each side of the midrib, at about 

 45° with it ; tertiary veins transverse and in various directions, not 

 conspicuous ; petiole ^^ in. Stipules bicuspidate, about ^ in. long. 

 Flowers about 1^ in. long, shortly pedicellate, in rather dense tricho- 

 tomous corymbose cymes. Calyx shortly and appressedly hairy or 

 Rubglabrate, narrowly turbinate, §— ^ in. long; teeth subulate, about 

 I in. long, one sometimes produced into a stalked, yellow ? 5-nerved, 

 roundly oval lamina, 2 by 1^ in., stalk IJ in. Corolla-tube narrowly 

 cylindrical, puberulous or nearly glabrous ; limb \ in. diameter, yellow; 

 throat hispid-tomentose ; lobes oval, apiculate. Fruit oblong, ob- 

 scurely 10-ribbed, J-| by ^ in. 



Vortb CentraL Monbuttu-Iand, near Munsa, Schweinfurth f 



5. UK. arouata, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. iv. p. 392. A 

 shrub of climbing or voluble habit, about 6-8 ft. high, usually 

 glabrate. Branches subterete, reddish or glaucescent, sometimes 

 shortly hispid- pubescent above. Leaves ovate or elliptical, narrowly 

 acuminate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, glabrous or nearly so 

 or hispidulous on the veins and margins, paler beneath, veiny, 1-6 by 

 tV"22 ^^- 5 lateral veins 5-7 on each side of the midrib ; tertiary veins 

 transverse ; petiole tV~2 ^^- Stipules bipartite or tripartite or cleft, 

 mostly glabrate and reflexed, caducous and usually leaving a more or 

 less hairy rim above their scar; partitions lanceolate or subulate, :|— | 

 in. long. Flowers 1-1^ in. long, shortly pedicellate, in lax terminal 

 panicles having spreading or arching branches or peduncles. Calyx 

 glabrous or sparingly hispidulous ; tube tnrbinate-oblong or oblong, 

 ^— ^ in. long ; teeth linear or subulate, equalling or rather shorter than 

 the tube, lengthening with it in fruit, subequal or occasionally one pro- 

 duced into a white dilated acuminate lamina, 1-1^ in. long, caducous. 

 Corolla-tube elongate-funnel-shaped, glabrous outside, usually curved ; 

 limb ^1 in. diameter, yellow, tomentose with crisped hairs at the 

 orange or purplish throat ; lobes oval or ovate, not acuminate. Fruit 

 subglobose or ellipsoidal, J— | in. long, fleshy, glabrous. — Landia stelli- 

 gera et L. astroyrapha, Commerson ex DC. Prod. iv. p. 372. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! Niger, Nupe, Barter ! 



XrUe ]band. Djurland, Schweinfurth! Niamniam-laud, Schweinfurth! Bongo- 

 land, Schweinfurth! 



Aower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch ! Cazengo, Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. Manganja Hills, H. Waller! alt. 3000 ft.; near Kankanje, 

 Kirk ! 



Occurs also in Mauritius and Madagascar. 



