98 Lxx. RUBiACE^ (hiern). [Bundia. 



shortly acuminate, attenuate at the base, subcoriaceous, glossy, 9-12 

 lyy 3-4^ in., upper ones usually three together, lateral veins about 

 12-13 pairs; petiole -^-J in. ; stipules short. Flowers soHtary, drooping, 

 quasi-axillary, 9 in. long, on robust recurved peduncles of 1 in. ; brac- 

 teoles minute. Calyx oblong, about 1 in., glabrous outside, hairy 

 inside, 5-angled ; tube half the length ; lobes subulate-prolonged. 

 Corolla obsoletely tomentose outside ; tube straight, narrow, campanu- 

 late above ; limb 2-2^ in. diam. ; lobes ovate, obtuse, dextrorsely con- 

 torted in the bud (as seen inside). Anthers included or nearly so. 

 Stigma club-shaped, nearly included. Fruit egg-shaped or fusiform, 

 31- (5 by 1^2 in., terete, smooth. 



Vpper Guinea. Muni Kiver, 1° N. lat., Mami ! 



11. R. malleifera, Benth. et Hooh. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 89. A 



puberulous shrub of 8-15 feet or a small tree. Leaves obovate or 

 oval, acuminate, wedge-shaped or rarely obtuse at the base, thinly 

 coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, sometimes three together, 4^-9 by 

 2-4 in., lateral veins about 9-10 pairs, usually slender ; petiole 

 |-| in. ; stipules small, deltoid, acuminate. Flowers solitary, terminal, 

 often terminating short lateral branches, about 6-7 in. long, fra- 

 grant, on a short bracteate peduncle. Calyx 1-^2 in. long, tawny, 

 pubescent ; tube oblong ; lobes narrowly linear, erect, about half the 

 length of the calyx. Corolla shortly and closely hairy outside, tawny ; 

 tube narrow-cylindrical, curved, funnel-shaped above ; limb white, 

 2-4 in. diam. ; lobes ovate, obtuse, dextrorsely contorted in bud (as 

 seen inside). Anthers sessile, nearly included, 1-lf in. long. Stigma 

 exserted, clapper- shaped, large, 1^2^ in. long, white except the yel- 

 low stigmatic upper part. Fruit globose, l^lfin. diam., of a greenish 

 ashy colour, obsoletely 5-angled. — Gardenia malleifera, Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4807 ; Rothmannia malleifera, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 384, 

 Gardenia Whitfieldi, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, sub t. 47. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! and others ; Senegambia, Heudelot ! 

 809, Rio Nunez, fide Jardin Herb. Cot. Occ. Afr. pp. 15, 16(6^. Whitefieldiand) \ 

 Niger Expedition, Barter ! Bagroo River, Mann ! Gaboon River, Mann ! 



ITortb Central. Monbuttu-land, Schwevifurth! 



irile Ziand. Bongo-land, Schweinfurth I Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! 



]Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 



Dr. Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, i. p. 199 : * . . . . The blippo {Gardenia mallei- 

 fera), with the inky-sap of which the Niam-niam and the Monbuttoo delight to dye 

 themselves.' See also vol. ii. pp. 104, 119. 



Schweinfurth's specimen in the British Museum (No. 1877) consists of some de- 

 tached flowers and a sterile branch bearing alternate exstipulate leaves. 



Jardin, Herb. Cot. Occ. Afr. p. 16 (1851) gives Gardenia Rorhmannia, Linn, f., . 

 from the Rio Nunez, Senegambia, where he states that it is abundant ; the plant in- 

 tended may be Randia mdleifera, Benth. et Hook. f. 



12. B>. octomera, Benth. et Hooh. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 89. A 



hirsute-pubescent shrub. Leaves oval or oblong, acutely acuminate, 

 cernate or opposite, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the base, subses- 

 sile, 2-4^ by |-1| in., lateral nerves about 12 pairs, inconspicuous ; 

 stipules ovate cuspidate, about J in. long. Flowers solitary, 7-8- 



