Morelia.'i Lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). 113 



glabrous ; stigma exserted, sulcate ; ovules 2-4 together, impressed on 

 the fleshy placentas. Fruit globose, 4- (-3) celled, rather fleshy ; cells sub- 

 chartaceous inside ; seeds mostly 2 together, one on each side of a 

 placenta that projects into the cell, sub-compressed ; testa thin; embryo 

 curved, nearly half the compass of the seed. — A shrub with subtereto 

 branches, opposite petiolate chartaceous or thinly coriaceous leaves, 

 deciduous stipules connate at the base, and i-ather small flowers in 

 axillary corymbs. 



An endemic genus, merged by Bentham and Hooker into Randia. 



1. M. senegralensis, A. Rich, ex DC. Prod. iv. p. 617, etin Mem. 

 Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 232 (1834). An evergreen shrub of 12-30 

 ft., often arborescent and producing aerial roots, nearly glabrate. 

 Leaves oval or oblong, more or less apuminate, somewhat narrowed at 

 base, thinly coriaceous, 2^7 by 1-3;^ in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; 

 petiole |-2 in. ; stipules ovate, ciliolate. Flowers ^— J in. long, white 

 or purplish outside, fragrant, on short pedicels, many together in 

 corymbose or hemispherical axillary cymes of 2-3 in. Calyx turbinate- 

 carapanulate, |— f ^^- ^^^g) puberulous or glabrate ; limb subtruncate, 

 with 5 short broad teeth. Corolla-tube equalling or exceeding the 

 calyx ; throat hairy ; lobes oblong, obtuse, J— J in. long, spreading or 

 reflexed. Stamens exserted ; anthers f in. long. Fruit green, ^ in. 

 diameter, 4-3-celled. Seeds j; in. long or rather more. — Kotschy et 

 Peyr. PI. Tinn. p. 31, t. 14 ; Eandia (sp.), Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, ii. p. 89. 



ITpper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur ! and Perrottet, Hevdelot ! Aboh, 

 Th. Vogcl ! Sierra Leone, (r. i)o?i / Nupe, £aWer/ Old Calabar River, A/aww .' 



Xrile Xiand. Djur-land, Henglin, Schweinfurth ! Bongo-land, Sckweinfurth .' 

 Babr-el-Abiad, fide Schweinf. and Aschers. Ennm. p. 282. 



Used to intoxicate fish. 



35. ZYGOON, Hiern. 



Calyx small ; tube campanulate-turbinate, bracteolate towards the 

 base ; limb short, 5-lobed ; lobes ovate or rounded, whitish, puberulo- 

 scarious, open in aestivation. Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous outside 

 or nearly so ; tube short, exceeding the calyx, bearded about the throat; 

 lobes 5, spreading, oval, obtuse, bearded at the base inside, longer than 

 the tube, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from inside) in aestivation. 

 Stamens 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla between its lobes, 

 exserted ; filaments short, not quite glabrous ; anthers linear, glabrous, 

 about as long as the corolla-lobes and spreading with them, fixed at 

 the back a little above the base. Disk fleshy, annular, glabrous. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2-3 together, collateral, compressed, pendulous 

 from the apex; placentas small; style exserted, stoutly filiform, gla- 

 brous or thinly pubescent below the middle, about twice the length of 

 the expanded flower, subfusiform above, undivided or bidentate at the 

 tip. Fruit unknown. — A small shrub with whitish terete branches, 

 opposite elliptical shortly petiolate rather velvety leaves, ovate, 

 apiculate-acuminate, undivided, rather small stipules, and white, 



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